Watco's Blue Ridge Southern train T31 snakes its way through Asheville's former industrial heart (now River Arts District).

Blue Ridge Southern train T31 eases away from Canton bound for Asheville on an increasingly humid July day

On a breezy summer morning in July, Blue Ridge Southern train T31 builds their train at the Evergreen Plant in Canton, NC

A quartet of Blue Ridge Southern SD40-2s (in SD45 carbodies) leads a coal train west beside US highway 23, passing the Vulcan Materials quarry at Enka, North Carolina.

On a cool summer morning, Blue Ridge Southern train T31 pulls ahead in the Canton yard while the Evergreen plant stands tall in the background.

Blue Ridge Southern EMD's work a Canton industry.

T31 departs Canton, NC bound for Asheville with the daily turn.

T31 works the yard in Canton with the new Sanding Tower and extra GP-39 sitting nearby.

A Blue Ridge Southern train has just entered NS tracks and is headed for the Yard to interchange cars with NS. Here, he is ducking below the classic Southern Railway cantilever style signal bridge... (more)

For the second operating day in a row, T59 has went on the law in Sylva. According to a friend, the delays are due to track work east of town. I'm sure the nasty weather and long hood forward trip... (more)

T59 went through Waynesville several hours late so I somewhat expected them to be tied down in Sylva. They were.

Do you want to build a snowman? It appears the crew of the eastbound T31 job did, as they placed him on the nose of the 4205 for its eastbound run into Asheville after this latest snowstorm.

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)

Blue Ridge Southern job T59 slowly makes the eastbound return trip to Canton as it begins the climb up the Balsam grade.

Blue Ridge Southern job T59 slowly makes the eastbound return trip to Canton on this cool March morning in western North Carolina.