A late running NS 213 hustles past the former Southern Railway passenger depot, now turned Thomasville Tourism Visitor's Center, with three Canadian National EMDs up front.

A solid set of Union Pacific power leads NS train 153 through the snowy former mill town of Kannapolis, NC.

NS P61 has just hit the Asheville line with a trio of westward facing EMD products on the point.

A southbound empty rail train barrels through downtown Kannapolis with a classic N&W SD40-2 on the point.

NS P61 starts their trip west on the Asheville District with an old high hood on the point.

The Yadkin Local accelerates out of Salisbury on a crisp fall morning. The GP60 was a welcome leader!

A colorful set of Union Pacific, former Union Pacific, and Norfolk Southern power swing NS 213 through the curve at China Grove.

NS train 214 rolls northbound at Eleventh Street, passing a memorial for a person killed by a train several months before. There are too many of these easily avoidable tragedies.

A very late NS 211 creeps by Old Spencer Yard with a rare UP "triclops" SD60M sandwiched between two generic GE locomotives.

The Yadkin Local rolls through the small town of Granite Quarry with its EMD pair notched up with a good sized train.

With just an SD40-2 and an ES44AC online, NS 154 crests the grade at North Kannapolis with three dead locomotives and a heavy train in tow trying to beat the evening Amtrak to Salisbury.

An extra manifest rolls under the B&O signal bridge at South Deshler with a colorful CN and HLCX team on the point.

Two SD40-2s and a D8-32B claw upgrade and into the curve just north of the crossovers at Maybelle on the first day of September with a 91 car northbound Winston-Salem turn freight.

In the late evening, four older EMD locomotives snake off of the Asheville main and under the signals at 11th Street with road local P60.

After completing their work, NS P60 rolls through East Statesville in beautiful golden light with an endangered high hood GP38-2 on the point.