Amtrak train 80, the northbound "Carolinian" service, rolls across the bridge over Julian Ave. in Thomasville, NC on October 5, 2014.

Amtrak train 80, the northbound "Carolinian" service, rolls through control point Cox in Greensboro, NC on August 27, 2014.

The Carolinian with downtown of "the Queen City" in the background on a beautiful golden morning. This is a rather scenic cityscape.

Amtrak train 80, with extra cars and locomotives from the Streamliners At Spencer event, rolls through downtown High Point, NC on June 2, 2014.

Amtrak's northbound Carolinian slows for the station stop in downtown High Point, North Carolina on May 23, 2014.

Running perfectly on-time, Amtrak train 80 blasts by Norfolk Southern Railway's Pomona Yard in Greensboro, North Carolina on February 1, 2014.

Amtrak's "Carolinian" passes VRE 327 to Manassas as it arrives Alexandria

Running about fifteen minutes late, Amtrak train 80 departs the Durham, NC Amtrak station on the morning of November 2, 2013.

Some bonus on a normally uniform train. P080, daily Amtrak "Carolinian" from Charlotte, NC to New York City rolls though Ashland, VA with an Ex- Seaboard Pullman "Hollywood Beach" and Milwaukee Ro... (more)

Amtrak 80, led by heritage unit 145, wakes up Thomasville, N.C.

Amtrak unit 200 leads the Carolinian north on a sunny Monday morning. Seen here, it is just a few hundred yards from the High Point station where it will be stopping for passengers.

The "Carolinian" headed north over Neabsco Creek

Phase 2 Heritage unit 66 looks great rolling the "Carolinian" north on the former RF&P

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)

Equipment being returned from the Norfolk Southern's Heritage event at Salisbury, NC