A trio of Blue Ridge Southern GP-39-2s lead the westbound T-31 at Canton, NC.

Blue Ridge Southern train T59 at Addie near Sylva

Work. W44 works Kimberly Clark on the day before a national holiday.

Blue Ridge Southern's W44 job departs Asheville bound for various customers on the W-Line. The building in the distance is the former Southern Railway freight house.

Blue Ridge Southern train T59 at Addie

Blue Ridge Southern T59 at T&S Hardwoods

Blue Ridge Southern T59 at Saunook

Blue Ridge Southern train T59 crossing Scott Creek

With a train for Evergreen Packaging at Canton, BLU T31 notches out of the dip at the 7 milepost behind a trio of SD45 carbody SD40-2's. Just a few months later Evergreen would announce the closin... (more)

Blue Ridge Southern 31 just arrived back from Asheville with traffic for Canton and all other areas west.

Blue Ridge Southern train T31 at Enka

Blue Ridge Southern train T59 at Saunook

T31 brings some cars for NS into Asheville. The CTC system was taken out by Hurricane Helene, so these trains have to operate at restricted speed with the conductor checking switch points on the t... (more)

Two former Delaware & Hudson GP39-2s lay over at BLU's yard in Canton.

Blue Ridge Southern's operations have been severely limited in the aftermath of the closure of their main customer in Canton and losing complete access to the outside world when NS's trackage on b... (more)