A short T31 dives into the dip at Enka with a short Westbound train bound for the yard at Canton.

BLU T31 enters the dip at Enka, with their Westbound return trip to Canton from Asheville.

T31 rolls through the giant dip at Enka, headed from Canton to Asheville with mostly empty woodchip cars.

After completing work at Asheville T31 rolls through the small town of Enka headed for Canton.

T31 engines are just poking out of a tree tunnel and into the sun. The train is switching and picking up a GREX rock train that has just been loaded at Vulcan's Enka quarry.

Blue Ridge Southern's turn to Asheville heads toward the NS yard for interchange behind a quad-pack of SD40-2/3 variants.

Four Blue Ridge Southern SD40-2s lead BLU T31 through the dip at Enka on their way to Asheville

Veteran Blue Ridge Southern Engineer Dennis Cain brings eastbound T31 into the dip at "Vulcan" 7 Miles from Murphy Junction on the Murphy Branch.

On the last day of January 2016, four Blue Ridge Southern EMD's lead T31 westbound toward Canton and Evergreen Paper via the former Southern Railway Murphy Branch.

Working out of the dip at the milepost T-7, Blue Ridge Southern T31 passes the Enka Quarry on it's way west to Canton and Evergreen Paper.

Four Blue Ridge Southern SD40-2's lead T31 westbound through the small community of Enka, North Carolina in beautiful afternoon sunlight. This train is bound for Canton, and the Blue Ridge Pape... (more)

A quartet of Blue Ridge Southern SD40-2s (in SD45 carbodies) leads a coal train west beside US highway 23, passing the Vulcan Materials quarry at Enka, North Carolina.

T31 has finished its work in Asheville and is now returning west to Canton, rolling down and climbing up hills the whole way. A cut of loaded NS coal hoppers sits on the Enka siding as the train s... (more)

A mixed bag of SD40-2's lead Canton bound P-31 through Enka on this beautiful December afternoon.

With less than two months before Watco takes over the NS branch lines around Asheville, P-31 tackles the grade just west of Enka, NC.