Carolina Coastal train 120 blasts off from Hexacomb on a warm Monday afternoon with a pair of ex Grand Trunk GP9R's in command.

Westbound 'Original' NS local at Farmville, NC with GP18 #5 for power. || August 1973

Westbound on the old Norfolk Southern.

GTW country? Hardly. It's not often that the 'Coastal uses 3 units east of Wilson, and it's even rarer that they will match - if you can call these old bandits matching. So when the westbound Wils... (more)

After the stubborn spillways on the bottom of this ex-Southern ballast hopper were unclogged, the CLNA crew takes off dropping ballast along the mainline. Rock is being dumped from the front of th... (more)

Midday has been busy on the CLNA in Farmville. After the work train arrived from Wilson at 1100, met the road train, and took care of a Railroad: Carolina Coastal Railway
Locomotive: EMD SD-M
Location: Farmville, North Carolina, USA
Locomotive #: CLNA 815
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: May 20, 2010

After cleaning up a minor derailment, the crew of the CLNA work train shoves west to the outskirts of Farmville at 1330 in order... (more)

Crews of the CLNA work to re-rail a covered hopper at the Southern States elevator with a few wooden blocks and a lot of patience. The car was not secured properly by the customer and ran over a d... (more)

After dropping off one car for the Southern States elevator, the CLNA Wilson to Chocowinity turn gets under way with 17 cars. Crews from a work train would soon resume trying to rerail one of the ... (more)

For quite a while, I’ve been wanting to photograph what little remains of the East Carolina Railway. It was a true shortline from the start, in business from 1898-1965, that ran about 35 miles f... (more)

What I believe to be a Heron, which was fishing in a nearby swampy drainage ditch, takes flight as the CLNA Wilson switcher trundles along the overgrown right of way with 10 cars for the NS interc... (more)

A wreck train heads east (timetable north) on the "original" Norfolk Southern between Raleigh and Chocowinity with Engine 1616 and derrick #900. Today NS 1616 is on display at the North Carolina T... (more)

A wreck train heads east (timetable north) on the "original" Norfolk Southern between Raleigh and Chocowinity with Engine 1616 and derrick #900. Southern Railway would take over the old NS in 1974... (more)