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)

All is quiet, just after 9pm in the small mountain town of Canton, North Carolina. Just a few months prior this region of Western North Carolina was badly hit with major hurricane Helene causing m... (more)

Waiting. By all accounts, due to the damage inflicted by Helene and the isolation of Asheville yard from all directions rendering it impossible to move cars, these two units have sat at Fr... (more)

Blue Ridge Southern T31 at Hominy Creek

BLU T31 eases across the Pigeon River with the Evergreen Paper Mill standing in the background

Four Watco EMD's bring T31 west through Candler with a big train of woodchips in tow for the paper mill at Canton