Charlotte and Western rolls eastbound at Lowell with traffic for CSX at Mt. Holly.

Charlotte and Western rolls westbound on the former Piedmont and Northern with 2 cars from CSX at Mt. Holly.

Charlotte and Western rolls westbound on the former Piedmont and Northern with 2 cars from CSX at Mt. Holly.

The Lehigh Valley heritage unit leads Charlotte-Spartanburg transfer P09 southbound at Lowell.

282 rolls northward toward their destination at Charlotte, passing under the Southern signal bridge at Lowell.

173 tops the grade at Lowell with a very short train. 173 had been a high priority Linwood-Memphis train that picked up a Memphis intermodal block in Charlottes set off by 221, and the two trains... (more)

Southern 8099 Heritage Engine leading NS 204 under one of the last surviving Southern Signal Bridges in Lowell

NS 24X at Lowell with the "Moving The Weight Of The World" Engine leading

24X roars through Lowell, NC under the Southern signals with the Employees' Unit (aka The A-Team Unit) leading.

P43 heads under the former Southern signal bridge at Lowell with a single SD40-2 for power.

A Norfolk Southern Railway train passes under the Southern Railway-era signals in Lowell, North Carolina. NS 3544 is a General Electric ET44AC built in June 2016.

Northbound Under the Signals. The daily hotshot 24X passes under the remnant Southern Railway signal bridge in Lowell, NC, led by an increasingly rare Dash 9 that once wandered the system ... (more)

The Illinois Terminal heritage unit leads Jacksonville - Charlotte train 282 under the intermediates at Lowell as the train approaches its terminus.

Fresh from the paint booth in Altoona, PA, the Reading heritage unit shoves NS 27A under the Southern signal bridge at Lowell in the dead of the night.

240 is near the end of it's cross-country journey from California to the Charlotte intermodal yard just 8 miles ahead. They're passing a favorite photo location, the Southern-era signal bridge in... (more)