The long hood of Blue Ridge Southern 4201 (WAMX 4201) shows off the old SD45 carbody. Though it is an SD40-2 on the inside, its sweet to see it with the SD45 carbody.

After leaving home rails and running east on the NS River Line from Murphy Junction, Blue Ridge Southern T31 knocks down the signal at CP Russell and begins it's climb over the "High Lead&quo... (more)

Blue Ridge Southern T31 rolls eastbound across the French Broad River on a beautiful December afternoon with Four classic EMDs' in the lead.

BLU-01 rolls by the Evergreen Packaging plant as it departs Canton, NC bound for Asheville. 4201 rolled out of the EMD plant in LaGrange, IL in September, 1966 as Southern Pacific SD45 #8836.

Nestled 15 miles west of Asheville along the former Southern Railway Murphy Branch is Coburn. It's been over 30 years since the merger and this location has seen Southern, NS and now Blue Ridge S... (more)

A lot has changed here in Asheville yard. In the last few days, Blue Ridge Southern has changed all of their train symbols, what used to be T31 is now BLU 01. In the last few months, the historic ... (more)

The dynamic brake fans howl as Blue Ridge Southern (BLU) train T31 heads from Canton to Asheville, NC. The classic whistle post identifies this as a former Southern Railway line, now operated by ... (more)

EMD's rule the former Southern Railway Murphy Branch as four Blue Ridge Southern SD40-3's cut through a field in rural western North Carolina.

Continuing downgrade eastbound from Canton, North Carolina, Blue Ridge Southern 4201 leads T31 through an s - curve and under a road overpass on the outskirts of Canton on the former Southern Rail... (more)

On the second day of 2015, a trio of Blue Ridge Southern SD40-2's assigned to T31 switch the paper plant in Canton, North Carolina before working eastbound to the NS interchange in Asheville.

T31 pulls ahead out of the Evergreen plant and heads for the mainline, where it will reverse to the same end of the yard and pick up a few loads for Asheville.

Blue Ridge Southern's T31 train crosses the French Broad River as it Norfolk Southern's yard in Asheville. The train will work for about an hour before heading back west to Canton.

Blue Ridge Southern's Canton-Asheville turn T31 starts their day by shoving back into the Evergreen paper mill to drop off their current cut of cars and pull a cut of empty woodchip hoppers out.

A rare treat on the W-Line is this set of four WAMX units working southbound on a Saturday daylight run. For some reason, the local power from Canton is being used to run cars to Arden (usually r... (more)