Spring is in the air in western North Carolina as the Southern returns to home rails and leads westbound 165 across the River line at Nocona.

The "Roanoker" returns eastbound across the high trestle at Kate's Creek with the Greensboro bound excursion in tow.

745 passes through Craggy as it departs Asheville with a trio of brand new ET44ACs for power on this beautiful Summer morning in the mountains.

E16 cruises past a local icon, the Sanitary Fish Market in route to the state port at Morehead City, NC. The former Atlantic & East Carolina tracks run between the lanes of Arendell St for 3 mile... (more)

Thunderstorms move into Asheville as 135 departs westbound off the High lead for its run along the French Broad river to Knoxville. In the background, the Wedge art studios sit next to the area t... (more)

A trio of Carolina Coastal's GP9R's lead the Wilson to Chocowinity turn (Train #120) into Chocowinity on a warm summer morning. Matched sets of power on shortlines can often be hard to come by, e... (more)

A great way to start off the forth of July sees the Lehigh Valley heritage unit leading 785 westbound out of Asheville at Craggy.

Smoky Mountain #440 rusts away buried in the back on an industrial park in Fletcher, NC on this late summer afternoon. Compare to a photo of this same unit in 1970. http://www.railpictures.net... (more)

Blue Ridge Southern's W84 job uses NS power to run coal to the Skyland powerplant near Arden, NC. Here they split the signals at the former WE of the Buena Vista siding (the WB signal is still us... (more)

Looking right at home, P87 departs Asheville with a solo HH leading the way.

For a brief moment I got a glimpse of what life used to be like in Old Fort when Southern Railway painted units passed the depot on every train. Just after midnight on 4-17-2016, a shot I'd h... (more)

589' of smoke, cinders, ash, and steam erupt from the west portal of the Lick Log tunnel on the Old Fort loops as the Norfolk & Western #611 leads an excursion to Asheville, NC.

Running nearly two hours behind schedule the 611 passes on the south side of Ruffin, NC in beautiful last light on it's return trip to Spencer.

Running nearly two hours behind schedule the 611 led "Virginian" screams through the signals at "Cox" on it's return trip to Spencer. I'm sure the passengers are growing weary... (more)

The Spencer to Lynchburg "Virginian" begins it's journey as it crosses the calm waters of the Yadkin river on a beautiful April morning.