Running almost three hours late, Amtrak's southbound Crescent is seen diverging onto track two at Duluth, in order to meet NS 212 at Carolina. Today's Crescent is lead by Amtrak's Ph... (more)

An Amtrak excursion sponsored by the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer NC begins its climb to Asheville NC up the famous NS Loops west of Old Fort NC

The Westbound "Asheville Special" at Marion, NC

Rare mileage for Amtrak #156 as it emerges from the 589' Lick Log Tunnel in the Old Fort Loops with the Fall Leaf Special on its journey to Asheville, NC.

Amtrak 156 leads a roundtrip excursion from the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer NC to Asheville NC on the famous NS S-Line crossing the Catawba River

Amtrak 156 leads a roundtrip excursion from the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer NC to Asheville NC on the famous NS S-Line.

Amtrak 010 rolls northbound under the milepost 316 signal bridge in Lexington, deadheading equipment from the previous weekend's excursion trips out of Spencer back north to Washington D.C.

A deadhead move of the Amtrak Autumn Leaf Special with Amtrak "Phase I" heritage No. 156 leading heads northbound over the Yadkin River just south of CP "Duke". The train was already moving at a g... (more)

The Amtrak 40th Anniversary Heritage unit leads an excursion from Spencer, NC to Charlottesville, Va on a cold and rainy Sunday. The excursion would then return back to Spencer around 8pm that nig... (more)

Descending the 2.2% grade on the Southern Loops in Old Fort, NC, NCTM and Amtrak's joint Autumn Leaf Excursion exits a tight rock cut on the upper portion of the Loops while returning to Spencer f... (more)

The Autumn Leaf Excursion exits Jarrett's Tunnel westbound on the Southern Loops, bound for Asheville, NC. The three P42s are getting a decent workout lugging their 27-car train up the 2.2% snakin... (more)

On Halloween 2015, Amtrak's Autumn Leaf Excursion chugs up the Southern Loops in Old Fort, NC on the westbound leg of the trip between Spencer and Asheville. Twenty-seven cars were on the train.

NCTM and Amtrak forces put together the consist for the excursions to Asheville and Charlottesville this weekend. The Amtrak "Pointless Arrow" locomotive on the point of the train commemorates Amt... (more)

The Second 2015 New River Train Excursion sits in the town of Saint Albans, West Virginia as it picks up passengers to see the scenic route between Huntington, West Virginia and Hinton, West Virgi... (more)

Amtrak's phase I heritage unit led the 2015 New River Train eastbound. At Hinton, the three locomotives with the 156 on the east end have uncoupled from their train and run around to the west end... (more)