A westbound empty rail train negotiates the ancient rock cut near Hurley School Road on the Asheville District. While this may look like a scene you might see in the famous Southern loops, we are ... (more)

Three ex-Southern EMDs smoke it up as they roll west through a suckerhole of sunlight in Elmwood on their way towards Statesville.

Gainesville, GA to Greenville, SC turn P90 has just cleared the control point at Traber and the engineer notches up his four EMDs as they accelerate into downtown Liberty on their northbound trip.

NS 153 coasts through downtown Lula on a Springlike January afternoon on its run south to Atlanta.

After meeting counterpart 154 at Mount Airy, train 153 is back underway as it passes the Southern Railway painted caboose in beautiful downtown Cornelia as the heavy cloud cover starts to roll in.

A classic spartan cab SD70 leads a train of Chapel Hill bound coal loads through the curve at East Spencer as the N&W 611 deadhead move arrives on the north Old Spencer Yard lead on a snowy aftern... (more)

A light snowfall greets the N&W 611 as it steams up Yadkin Hill on its final approach to the North Carolina Transportation Museum, where it will spend the next few months getting prepared for anot... (more)

Linwood to Macon train 119 is just underway from Spencer Yard with three GEs struggling to hold the rail amidst the snow and sleet with a big train. The lead unit is a product of Norfolk Southern'... (more)

A pair of classic high hoods running long hood forward lead a Danville, VA bound empty ballast train north past the Dixie plant in downtown Lexington making quite the spectacle for 2016.

Some fall color is still hanging on in early December as NS P23 prepares to pick up a boxcar out of a spur at Mazeppa Industrial Park.

Norfolk Southern's colorful "Training First Responders" locomotive leads Barber-Mooresville turn P23 southbound along NC 801 in Mount Ulla. Truly a horse of a different color than what t... (more)

The Yadkin Local arrives back into the Salisbury yard limits at Yadkin Junction in the last light of a beautiful fall afternoon.

The Yadkin Local rolls westbound (railroad north) through Granite Quarry on its return trip to Salisbury with a classic high hood leader in the golden evening light.

Linwood-Oyama road local P61 is just underway from Spencer Yard with its trio of SD40-2s clawing out of the Yadkin River Valley in notch eight with a heavy train. This location is a favorite of ma... (more)

The Salisbury Job goes about its switching duties at the box plant near Five Row. This job still regulary uses a caboose as seen standing with the rest of its train on the mainline.