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The Blue Ridge Southern's SD40M-2 lettered as WAMX 4201 is set out on a track in the yard in Canton, North Carolina. Originally built for the Southern Pacific in 1966 as an SD45, the locomotive wa... (more)

The Blue Ridge Southern's T31 job from Canton to Asheville heads east across Hominy Creek behind a quartet of EMD's wearing the Watco corporate paint. The engineer gives a friendly wave as it lead... (more)

The Blue Ridge Southern local to Asheville accelerates downgrade behind a quartet of EMD's, now about three miles outside of Canton. Old logging equipment sits amongst the weeds along the tracks h... (more)

Morning fog has filled the valleys around Canton, North Carolina as Blue Ridge Southern train T31 begins its journey towards Asheville. A quartet of EMD's lead the train across the large trestle j... (more)

Blue Ridge Southern train T31 builds its train at the railroad's main yard in Canton. Leading is a former Frisco SD45.

A beautiful late fall day as the daytime turn brings cars to Asheville.

Two Blue Ridge Southern trains meet between Canton and Asheville on a sunny January day... Unfortunately traffic doesn't justify such and this is only the daily turn passing a cut of boxcars store... (more)

We started our first railfan outing of 2020 by chasing the Waynesville local in the freshly fallen snow. This is the largest and only appreciable snow we've had this winter here in the Western Nor... (more)

A four pack of Blue Ridge Southern SD40-2's heads down the hill, dynamic brakes whining, from Canton towards Asheville. All of BLU's SD40's, except for one, are SD45's on the outside but have been... (more)

T59's three GP39-2's are screaming as they get back up to speed after having to stop to flag the dark crossing in the background. Behind them are 16 cars: 5 loaded 89' flats of rail, 9 loaded 33,0... (more)

T59 is easing into Sylva with a rare three pack of GP39's. Behind them are 5 89' flat cars loaded with rail for interchange with Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. This day started with a long wait f... (more)

The Blue Ridge Southern T31 job to Asheville has departed Canton and rolls across a massive trestle just outside town. The quartet of EMD's power the train over former Southern Railway trackage.

T59's train stretches through the rolling hills of West Waynesville. The whole line from Canton to Balsam is like this, one two percent grade rolling into another. This particular train was the lo... (more)

Blue Ridge Southern train T59 heads down to Sylva with a rare trio of locomotives and sixteen cars including five car loads of 136 lb. rail for Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. Before being sold to... (more)