The year 2014 has been a very colorful year motive power wise and this day is no exception, as BNSF and CP power lead NS train 348 through Salisbury on its way south.

Linwood Southbound manifest No. 348 blasts by the Salisbury Amtrak Station before meeting Amtrak 76

After finishing a pickup for the run to Atlanta and Chattanooga, 348 accelerates past the Salisbury wye with a couple of Canadian's trailing the lead Dash 9.

NS train 348 gets ready to pull from the Old Yard at Spencer/Salisbury with two Canadian engines in the lashup as local power sits to the left. They are leaving with 46 cars for Spartanburg.

NS 348 rolls south through Landis on a sunny spring evening in May behind a nice EMD trio.

Who`s railroad is this anyway? That would be Norfolk Southern `s colorful train 348 from Linwood NC to Chattanooga TN via Atlanta Ga.

A trio of Union Pacific locomotives lead Norfolk Southern around a curve in Harrisburg, North Carolina on May 11, 2014.

Just before the sun sets on the skyline of Charlotte, North Carolina, Norfolk Southern train 348 rolls through town on its way towards Atlanta on April 24, 2014.

Southbound manifest train 348 rolls around the curve just before crossing Summit Avenue in Charlotte, North Carolina on April 12, 2014.

NS 348 finally gets underway after waiting for nearly two hours in Austell. This train wouldnt get far after a defect detector nabbed it and the crew went on the law.

NS manifest #348 gets underway after getting his signal with 9000 feet of train. The train would go on the law just a few miles north in Hiram.

Norfolk Southern's Wabash heritage SD70ACe leads a loooonng Linwood,NC - Chattanooga,TN manifest out of Atlanta. You cant tell from the picture but it was super cold and windy but still worth goin... (more)

NS manifest #348 has just crested the grade at Braswell and now lets gravity do its job until they get to Rockmart.