An old timer gets his shot of a fellow older timer, former Southern Railway 6133 at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC. Southern Railway 6133 was built by EMD in 19... (more)
NS P23 finishes it's work at Innospec Active Chemicals, and is shown here headed down the spur and back to their train, which was parked on the mainline. (Train is moving away from me in this pict... (more)
Atlantic Coast Line 501 is an EMC E3 diesel locomotive built in November 1939 for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. ACL 501 was a sole EMC E3 survivor, but was rebuilt as a E6 before being sold of... (more)
One of those days it paid to be up early.
While waiting for the roundhouse door to be opened, Southern FP7A 6133, makes a fine sight on this cool November evening.
Southern Railway 2-8-0 #630 slowly begins to pull away from the North Carolina Transportation Museum.
She may have a lot of miles on her, but she's still both beautiful and up to the job. Here Southern #630 is seen getting ready to pull another passenger special in off the grounds f the North Caro... (more)
Note the front truck placement, which was significantly different on later models.
A little post-event Streamliners switching. Hard to believe that of all the locomotives featured in this image, it's the two NS units that are no longer.
It all began here, more or less. Demonstrator #103 with its matching B-unit. This took some effort as they were not kept in the same museums. It was only fitting they were brought in for display... (more)
Heritage met heritage under the lights in Spencer, NC on 7.4. 2012.
On the night of July 4, 2012, most of the new, clean and shiny heritage units wait out the night while the N&W and SOU units are elsewhere.
Ten years to the day, heritage met heritage. The NS 8114 has not been that clean since. The former NS 1616 is always tis clean.
