The New York Central heritage unit leads R653, the Charlotte Sub re-symbol of C406, on the former SAL line at Iron Station.

A single KCS AC44 leads B650 at track speed approaching Iron Station.

Some fall color is still hanging on as R653 empty Terrell coal train passes Berry Hill Farms in Iron Station, NC.

Fresh from rebuild in Huntington, West Virginia SD70 CSX 4561 brings up the rear of K706 passing through Iron Station with some nice fall color.

CSXT 911 leads U722 west on the CSX Charlotte Sub on 9-9-21.

After K447 received a fresh crew. The train is seen here rolling through Iron Station.

Defiantly the train of the afternoon. K446 lead by a CSX 40-2 and two UP's lead's a empty ethanol train through the country side of Iron Station. Headed for Bostic and up The Clinchfield.

A pair of new GE ET44ACs lead a 10 year old ES40DC on a loaded Shelby grain train.

An empty coal train heads west, passing the few residences in the aptly named hamlet of Iron Station. U362 makes rounds between Charlene, KY and Pennyroyal, SC.

Springtime in the South...2 AC's and a GEVO blast past Ironton Presbyterian with a loaded coal train off the old Clinchfield. This train will branch off onto the Terrel Sub several miles ahead in... (more)

And on the way home from the previous derailment, we got to take in the cleanup of the last pile-up, 9 miles east of the Lincolnton derailment, at Iron Station (25 miles NE of Charlotte).

A westbound empty hopper train is greeted by a rainbow as it enters the Iron DTC block at Iron Station, NC. Iron Station is 25 miles NW of Charlotte. The train will continue west to Bostic and n... (more)