During the July 4th night after the NS Heritage festival in Spencer the Amtrak display equipment quietly slipped out and went down to Charlotte where it was added to the consist of the Carolinian.... (more)

The first group of Heritage Units have left the party and head west

Back to work. The first group of Heritage Units to leave the party starts their journey west.

NS 961, with 9 of the 20 heritage units from the Spencer Family Portrait, stops at 11th street while NS 337, with NS 9340, highball's by wasting no time.

Framed by Grimes Mill, Southern #630 heads northwest towards Barber, NC. The mill is actually older than the locomotive by eight years.

Southern 630 entering Salisbury on the first employee excursion on June 9th.

To celebrate the American Bicentennial, a rolling museum of American artifacts was assembled to tour the country by rail in 1975 and 1976. The American Freedom Train was pulled by three different... (more)

Amtrak 010, the 40th Anniversary Exhibit Train, sits on the "westbound" on the NS S-Line waiting on Amtrak 76, the northbound "Piedmont" to clear the Salisbury station so it can shove around the s... (more)

This unit was just set out for no apparent reason but one can surmise it was for some failure. I wonder what percentage of Amtrak trains arrive at their destination with something other that the ... (more)

SB NS 920 loaded Herzog ballast train accelerates out of the southend of the "Salisbury Ditch".