153 encountered numerous slowdowns and is on its third crew for the state of South Carolina. Here it crosses the Tugaloo River (Lake Hartwell) and is only yards away from the Georgia State Line.

The Masters OCS passes through Glade Spring, VA on its alternate route to the 2010 event and the FEC special.

The DPU on N312, coal loads for Duke Energy's Cliffside Steam Station on the Brice Spur, crosses the Toe River and passes the elderly Clinchfield signal at NE Toe River.

K78 train carries CSX traffic for Spartanburg, SC during the maintenance blitz on the Blue Ridge Sub

No. 3 encounters the first set of semaphores on its westward run just south of Springer, NM as a brief snow shower comes to an end.

A northbound empty hopper train heads across the Toe River at the north end of the Toe River siding, still home to a set of Clinchfield signals.

Russell, KY to Waycross, GA manifest M693 is approaching Spartanburg and the end of this crew's journey down the Blue Ridge Sub. The train is crossing the Pacolet River, with Lake Blalock in the ... (more)

154 rounds the curve south of the Spartanburg Amtrak station and passes the upstate's version of Charleston's "Rainbow Row". The damage from recent heavy winds and possible tornado is e... (more)

A very late 135 makes an unusual daylight appearance on the loops. Here, the train rumbles by the waypoint Graphite as the rear is visible wrapped around the horseshoe curve at High Fill.

A late-running Pickens train has finished switching the outbound traffic for NS and shoved eastward to clear the switch. They will head southward on the former C&WC with cars for their major cust... (more)

The DPU on N312, coal loads for Duke Energy's Cliffside Steam Station on the Brice Spur, pushes the 92 loads up the gentle but lengthy grade of the Blue Ridge Sub.

NS 274 negotiates one of the many, many sharp curves on the former N&W line from Roanoke to Winston-Salem, NC at Walnut Cove, NC, 15 miles N of Winston-Salem. Several CPL's nearby have been remov... (more)

A late-running Pickens train returns to Anderson with interchange traffic from the Greenville and Western. They are crossing US 29 and the old Taylors Stockyards.

A nice place to take lunch

After a day of drilling storage cars around Bowersville, the Hartwell crew makes a late day run to pick up some cars on the main at Lavonia. The crew will take it a few miles and call it a day.