A quiet Sunday afternoon finds NS P60 working the McNess lead at East Statesville with the standard SD40-2 trio up front. The Southern Railway signals are still standing throughout much of this cl... (more)

NS 162 screams through Statesville with an all EMD, all UP consist.

Doing what they do best, the Alexander switches one of their numerous customers, shoving a few boxcars back to a loadout.

A busy day of switching continues. The Alexander RR was started by locals who wanted to save this line when slated for abandonment by the Southern in 1946 making it one of the earliest RRs in the ... (more)

The Alexander crew enters Statesville for the second time today. After dropping their short train from Taylorsville on the "main" north of town and spending all morning shuffling cars in... (more)

NS P61 arrives into Statesville in golden afternoon light, passing a long abandoned freight shed.

ARC 11 shoves a few cars of grain back in to the spur at Deal-Rite Feeds

On a gorgeous last day of 2015, NS P61 rolls westbound into Statesville with a classic EMD trifecta on the point. The ancient N&W boxcar has been sitting abandoned on the old spur for many years r... (more)

A M.O.W. camp car and equipment movement is passing Shaver Wood Products just east of Statesville NC. It was nice to catch a SD40-2 leading something other than a local these days.

High Hood Greatness! Local train P60 ducks under Old Mountain Road near Statesville, NC, behind a pair of ex-N&W SD40-2s, a rebuilt SD40-2, and an SD60E, all running "Southern Style". Th... (more)

The end is near! This westbound Linwood to Oyama local is seen here getting ready to interchange with Alexander Railroad with one of only SIX remaining ex-SOU GP50s left in service.

The end is near! This westbound Linwood to Oyama local is seen here getting ready to interchange with Alexander Railroad with one of only SIX remaining ex-SOU GP50s left in service.

Statesville was a great spot to fan in the 1970s with good traffic that really moved, even though the plant was not exactly cutting-edge. Here is proof as a crew member runs ahead to line the way... (more)

Among the hottest trains on Southern Railway were those given the designation Comar, for co-ordinated motor and rail. One of the Comar fleet, 223 had just four cars this day, so the power - a tri... (more)

NS P61 rolling into Statesville on a perfect March afternoon