The J Line to Chapel Hill has a roller coaster profile, as illustrated by the P07 coming out of one of them on their way south.

P07 arrives in Chapel Hill with a cut of coal for the UNC power plant.

A pair of KCS units pass the classic church at Huntdale, NC on it's southbound run to Charlotte.

97z "Herzog loads" getting ready to work the Shelton Rock Quarry but before that would happen the engines would go light to Dundee yard to fill the locomotives up with water.

Amtrak 77 reenters NS trackage a Fetner with an F59PHI for power.

CSX 2 leads the northbound deadhead Santa Train en route to Kingsport, TN to load for the weekend run south.

A KCS pair lead Charlotte ethanol loads at the North End of the Poplar siding on the former Clinchfield.

Amtrak Piedmont 77 hustles into Cary early into their trip to Charlotte.

An Ex-Southern high-hood GP38-2 guides NS P71 East passing the depot at Morganton.

Two N&W C30-7s bracket a Union Pacific SD40-2 as they throttle up a southbound freight leaving Greensboro North Carolina.

Great Smoky Mountain Railroad's newest locomotive and first F unit, sits in the Bryson City yard wearing a "Polar Express" banner.

The Illinois Terminal heritage unit leads Jacksonville - Charlotte train 282 under the intermediates at Lowell as the train approaches its terminus.

The Pennsy leads train NS 351 around the curve at Fetner as it passes the historic Page-Walker Hotel in Cary, NC. I wasn't expect this heritage unit to lead, let alone run long hood forward. The F... (more)

I was quickly losing light as the N&W 611 approaches her next stop in Greensboro, NC. The rainy conditions made for nice condensation as the steam excursion glides along.

Great Smoky Mountains 2-8-0 leads the westbound train bound for the NOC across the Tuckasegee River at Bryson City, NC.