While some shortlines have withered away over the years, the Alexander seems to be adding new customers and new sidings every time I visit. This small yard near the line's northern terminus of Tay... (more)

Each weekday morning the ARC days starts with pulling one of the line's 4 spotless SW1500's from the engine house. The shop once held the line's small fleet of ALCO switchers painted in the bright... (more)

Running light to reach their first switching duties of the morning, the day's run leaves some ominous clouds behind.

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

Engine 6 headed south to Statesville.

Alexander #6 works a southbound load of ties through Stony Point, NC.

Members of the Railroad Heritage Alliance get their motorcars ready for a day of fun on the rails at the Craggy Mountain Line, a new shortline railroad, next to the railroad's recently acquired Al... (more)

Alexander Railroad #9 arrives into Statesville, NC with the daily train from Taylorsville, NC.

Alexander Railroad #9 passes the Industrial Park in Statesville, NC with the daily train from Taylorsville.

Looking much better than her last photo op for RP (seen here: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=97281), ARC #3 sits in the parking lot of a lumber yard in Statesville. The "mainline" of... (more)

ARC 44-ton #3 leading an eastbound by the Stoney Point Baptist Church in Stoney Point, NC || October 1969

Alexander RR #5 eastbound at Stoney Point, NC in September of 1975.

#6 heads east on a foggy morning.

The Alexander RR's 3-car train runs through a classic American summer scene on the Friday before 4th of July.