Climbing westbound toward Canton Yard with a solid loaded chip train, T31 crosses the 100 year old East Canton Trestle in beautiful storm light this afternoon.

T31 hustles through the suburbs of West Asheville leading a short train from Canton. I'm used to chasing slow moving GSMR and T59, so trains on this end of the Murphy Branch seem to move along a l... (more)

T31 heads east through Hominy Valley.

T31 with a short train ducks under the Groundhog Rd. bridge bound for Asheville from Canton.

Conductor Tim Keegan gives big double thumbs up as his short Asheville bound train rolls by the storage siding at Coburn on the way out of Canton.

Blue Ridge Southern T31 screams up the Camelback Grade, clinging to a lush hillside, as it approaches Canton.

The daily Canton-Asheville turn accelerates through Coburn, NC with empty chips from the Evergreen Mill.

After coming off the T-Line at Murphy Junction, Blue Ridge Southern T31-05 works up the high lead on the west end of Norfolk Southern's Asheville Yard. This train would end being one of the last ... (more)

The former SD45's bring a lengthy train through the snaking S-curves as it rides down Camelback Grade out of Canton.

The silence of a soft rainfall on a small farm outside of the tiny community of Coburn, NC is broken by the sound of three WATCO SD40-2's screaming through the Blue Ridge Mountains as BLU T31 figh... (more)

Blue Ridge Southern's daily turn, T31, has just completed its work at the yard in Asheville and is now in full retreat back toward Canton. It is passing by one of the numerous features of Ashevill... (more)

Blue Ridge Southern's daytime turn for interchange at Asheville with NS switches cars at the west end of the yard behind a quartet of six axles.

Watco's Blue Ridge Southern train T31 heads for the NS interchange at Asheville, NC, departing from the yard at Canton, NC behind four SD40-2s and a healthy train of paper business related traffic... (more)

Built as Union Pacific # 3188, WAMX 4205 and three other Blue Ridge Southern EMDs' bring eastbound T31 downgrade into Murphy Junction on the T-Line. WAMX 4205 is currently out of service for repa... (more)

Blue Ridge Southern's daily local from Canton to Asheville begins it's journey toward Asheville down the T-Line as it soars high above the outer township of Canton, NC.