A Southern Rwy scale test car sits in the Wheel Balancing Shed at Spencer shops, NC. The shed, built in 1944, houses a set of eight Fairbanks scales connected to the tracks where steam locomotives... (more)

Linwood to Oyama yard local P61 has finally crested the long grade out of the Yadkin River valley at Five Row, his veteran thoroughbreds making easy work of the short Sunday train.

A beauty deserves a portrait in their best outfit and IMHO it didn't get no better than this one.

In the Night. The 611 runs at the NCTM during a well done night shoot at the museum.

Enjoying her first weekend in North Carolina back in 2014, Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 611 will soon undergo a restoration twenty years after she was last fired up.

Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad EMC E5(A) #9911-A was a popular attraction at the Streamliners at Spencer evet in 2014. I had to wait awhile to get an unobstructed shot of her before she pull... (more)

Atlantic Coast Line 501 at the North Carolina Transportation Museum

Happy 1030! An appropriate photo for October 30, NS 1030 (SD70ACe) was selected for temporary special interest unit status for the 30th Anniversary of Norfolk Southern, and placed on displa... (more)

You can't fight fame. The first set of brand new "Heritage" units from the NS "Family Tree" arrive at the museum before most had turned a revenue wheel. Looking back at this ... (more)

Amtrak 266 leads Train #80 northbound across the Yadkin River Bridge just north of Spencer North Carolina.

N&W 611 about 4 hours before her return home to Roanoke, Va

Twelve years ago today, Norfolk Southern gathered their then-new heritage units at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in July 2012 to show them off to several thousand visitors who attended ... (more)

Norfolk Southern gathered their then-new heritage units at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in July 2012 to show them off to several thousand visitors who attended over the 4th of July wee... (more)

Norfolk Southern gathered their then-new heritage units at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in July 2012 to show them off to several thousand visitors who attended over the 4th of July wee... (more)

Norfolk Southern gathered their then-new heritage units at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in July 2012 to show them off to several thousand visitors who attended over the 4th of July wee... (more)