Midday has been busy on the CLNA in Farmville. After the work train arrived from Wilson at 1100, met the road train, and took care of a Railroad: Carolina Coastal Railway
Locomotive: EMD SD-M
Location: Farmville, North Carolina, USA
Locomotive #: CLNA 815
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: May 20, 2010

The 3-car Plymouth - Chocowinity turn hurries back to Plymouth, disturbing an otherwise quiet day in the tiny dot-on-the-map known as Walla Watta, running between gardens, garages, tractors, and c... (more)

After crossing the Pamlico Sound, the Plymouth - Chocowinity turn picks up the pace as it runs through the flat fertile farm country of Beaufort County

After cleaning up a minor derailment, the crew of the CLNA work train shoves west to the outskirts of Farmville at 1330 in order... (more)

Crews of the CLNA work to re-rail a covered hopper at the Southern States elevator with a few wooden blocks and a lot of patience. The car was not secured properly by the customer and ran over a d... (more)

After dropping off one car for the Southern States elevator, the CLNA Wilson to Chocowinity turn gets under way with 17 cars. Crews from a work train would soon resume trying to rerail one of the ... (more)

The CLNA Plymouth - Chocowinity Turn arrived in Choco today with three cars, dropped one in the NS Yard, and now shoves the remaining two toward the CLNA yard tracks around the wye. Note the Norfo... (more)

Some 36 years after the original Norfolk Southern was folded into the Southern Railway network, its heritage still lives on throughout the Old North State. Here, the Carolina Coastal Plymouth - Ch... (more)

For quite a while, I’ve been wanting to photograph what little remains of the East Carolina Railway. It was a true shortline from the start, in business from 1898-1965, that ran about 35 miles f... (more)

Carolina Coastal GP16 #1721, still in it's old Aberdeen Carolina & Western paint, shoves a large cut of coal hoppers towards the shut down ALCOA Plant in Badin,N.C. where they will be placed into ... (more)

Waters of the Pamlico River lap against the shore, sea gulls screech in the air, the smell of loaded wood chip hoppers is carried along by the breeze, and the old trestle across the river groans i... (more)

A pair of Geeps roll into the Chocowinity yard limits eastbound past an interesting collection of antique tractors.

It's apparent that NS is still responsible for maintaining this crossing on the legs of the wye that connects the NS Choco yard with the CLNA Choco yard. (Probably not a bad number to have in your... (more)

An overview of the Chocowinity Yard used jointly by NS & CLNA looking north as the CLNA Plymouth to Choco turn switches the south end with their former Mississippi Export Geep. This is all trackag... (more)

While most of their running is through the fields and forests of Eastern NC, there are a few locations - such as the crossing of the Pamlico River in Washington - that really put the "coast" in Ca... (more)