Carolina Coastal train 120 in Greenville led by the Original NS Heritage engines

Carolina Coastal's newest power was revealed back in October with a lot of fanfare. Regional Rail announced that they'd be buying several ex Union Pacific GP15-1s for a few of their properties. Th... (more)

Carolina Coastal Railway’s first GP15-1 has entered service, as she leads her second revenue trip on CNLA 120 through East Carolina University’s Campus.

With the fall colors just starting to come in across Eastern North Carolina, CLNA 120 rolls north on the CLNA Wilson Sub behind a pair of CLNA's brightly colored GP9R's.

A caboose sanctuary sits on the siding near the crossing of Memorial Drive and the Carolina Coastal Railway. May 2011.

Heading east past the campus of East Carolina University. Note the extra abuttment to the left and wooden pilars in the creek bed. It appears there may have once been another track across this cre... (more)

The conductor of F728 (whose train is to the left) has just handed off an EOT (seen on the front deck of CSXT 3) to the crew of F727, which is turning southbound onto the Parmele Sub from the Caro... (more)

CSX local F728 heads north out of Greenville in the morning on its daily turn to the yard in Rocky Mount as it passes through rural eastern NC farmland.

A wreck train heads east on the "original" NS behind Baldwin #1616.

You don't have to be in the Midwest to see towering elevators. Feed mills such as this one just north of downtown Greenville are quite common down east. F728, the daily-except-Sunday road train o... (more)

In a rare eastern NC snow (which provided a rare day off from med school for me!), an equally rare CSX SD70M (1 of 25 on their roster) reflects on itself in the Tar River heading due north out of ... (more)

Two rarities: snow in Greenville, NC, and one of just 25 CSX SD70M's (4689 was built in 1995 as an EMD demo unit). The cinderblock CSX office sits deserted as 4689 idles in the cold waiting for a ... (more)

After coming to a stop, 8311 coughs up a lung getting across the CSX (former ACL) diamonds downtown Greenville. With just one car in tow, today's run back to Wilson will be a short one for the cre... (more)

The sad things that medical school does to one's free time: I live directly by the tracks of the CLNA and this is my first shot taken from where else but my parking lot. This is a fairly typical c... (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)