After putting its train together and confirming orders in the office, BLU T31 starts its pull to Asheville for interchange with Norfolk Southern. The main customer on the line in the form of a lar... (more)

BLU T31 finishes their work up in Asheville Yard, about to head back towards Canton as P87 ties down beside them.

Local Work. On the last day that NS 123 runs the Southern Loops from Asheville, Blue Ridge Southern works the Asheville Yard in preparation for its return trip to Canton, NC. 123 is the tr... (more)

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

Engineer M. Allen and Conductor C. Bussard bring T31 west through the countryside of Candler, NC with a big block of woodchips and other mixed freight for Canton as they near the 11 Milepost on th... (more)

Blue Ridge Southern train T31, the daily Canton-Asheville run with traffic for NS, crosses the Pigeon River as it builds its train in Canton.

BLU T31 comes into Asheville Yard, where they will tie down their train and get onto a Skyland bound coal train before doing their work.

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

Blue Ridge Southern T31 leaves Canton bound for Asheville with the daily turn.

The daily turn from Canton-Asheville is on the final few miles of it's westbound return as it crosses the high bridge just east of Canton, NC.

Blue Ridge Southern T31 screams up the Camelback Grade, clinging to a lush hillside, as it approaches Canton.

The silence of a soft rainfall on a small farm outside of the tiny community of Coburn, NC is broken by the sound of three WATCO SD40-2's screaming through the Blue Ridge Mountains as BLU T31 figh... (more)

Blue Ridge Southern's daily turn, T31, has just completed its work at the yard in Asheville and is now in full retreat back toward Canton. It is passing by one of the numerous features of Ashevill... (more)

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