SARM 'Secret City Scenic' excursion

A trackman occupying the Blair CP minutes before cleared up just in time and 110 is able to breeze through Blair at track speed without tapping the brakes.

On a breezy spring morning the 11:00 Secret City excursion run is seen crossing Hwy. 327 (Blair Rd.) on its way back from the turn-around point at Blair. In ten minutes it will be back onto DOE pr... (more)

With horn blaring, I2A has crested the hill at Blair and is passing a sleepy residential road The residents here have a front row view of the tracks though I doubt they are thrilled about it.

Running slow due to track problems, a southbound grain train creeps down the main toward the south end of the siding at Blair on a chilly fall morning.

After waiting in the hole to be passed by a southbound counterpart, a short northbound mty corn train snakes out of the siding and is seen passing the Southern Appalachian RR Museum connection (th... (more)

A northbound empty corn train accelerates out of the siding at Blair as a young man tends to his car troubles in the background to the right of the locomotive.

VLIX 2064 goes along for the ride on the back of the Secret City Excursion Train, on the return trip it will be in the lead since there is nowhere to turn the train when it gets to Blair.

NS 112's motors pop over the hill at Blair with a long train in tow, nowadays absent of the familiar Coors beer tanks that used to ride on the head end.

Seen just north of the CP at Blair, two UP EMD's lead today's 22A in and out of the shadows along the K&O District.

After a brief pause, the geometry train resumes its forward movement at Blair but will soon reverse into the siding at Scandlyn and back to Blair to test the siding before continuing the trip sou... (more)