937 rolls south through the trench in Gastonia. The leader is a aging GP60 #7123 a once common occurrence to the Piedmont these GP60's used to lead high priority stack trains. Now they are downgra... (more)

A shot I thought I could not get. As I say old meets new in this one NS 958 met the NS 135. This may have been the only train it met on this whole trip other thin I thank 162. But we where on a di... (more)

I woke up this morning and to see 20 the Crescent had been having problems and they where going to be late. I thought to myself they where just going to be a couple of hours. As the day went on I... (more)

So I went over to power drive to see the Train to Christmas town run. They are not far from Christmas town. This is the first year the Iowa Pacific the new owner of the P&N. The first run of the t... (more)

NW 611 is pulling the NCTM's passenger trains and I got it here at the Barber station. It looks really good by the old station. And a thanks to everyone at NCTM for making this happen.

The P&N will be starting there Train to Christmas soon and some passenger cars are arriving. This one stood out to me as it has french letting on the side. It says international company cars beds ... (more)

NS 119 rolls through the trench in Gastonia with one of many leasers currently on lease to NS. This one is CIT 6006 an SD60 and is an XSOO locomotive. Because it had this leader it was a popular t... (more)

The crew at the NCTM moved ACL 501 and CSX 2702 together and I thank they really looked good.

PGR 38 has shoved more into the plant here. They dropped off two covered hoppers to be off loaded. I will say it's nice to see Progressive Rail bring life into this stretch of track form Mount Hol... (more)

The W&A #12, The SAL 544 and The ACL 1031 all sit together beside the round house.

Well never expected this. CSX P901 with the recently repainted CRR in tow heads to Charlotte as it comes through Mount Holly, NC. Now you want to say historic moves this was one.

The P&N is running one of there Trains to Christmas town. And here we are at Christmas town. As you can see Santa and one of his elf's are waving to kids and there family's. And it's only fitting ... (more)

The brand new NS 911 locomotive sits quietly on one of the museum's tracks. I must say this locomotive is one of my favorites good job NS.

NS 957 The Blue Ridge Special starts up the hill and to the loops at Dendron. And I got to say I was very happy with this spot because you could hear him working. And that was a cool thing to see.... (more)

51R comes by North Advanced in Charlotte with a AC44C6M DC to AC conversion 4003 unit leading. This one is one of two painted with a red mane on it's side.