Yadkin Valley Railroad train YV2 crosses Mill Creek on the northwest side of Winston-Salem, NC, pulling a long train towards the NS North Winston yard for interchange.

A local resident pauses to grab a photo of an NS empty grain train at Fetner.

L614 departs Apex with a slug set for power on a muggy afternoon.

A late Amtrak 79 heads out of Raleigh in the early evening.

Blue Ridge Southern T59 works "Haywood Siding" at Waynesville.

Blue Ridge Southern T31 swings across the Pigeon River in Canton while building their train for Asheville.

As the sun being to set, casting crazy looking shadows, NS 212 highballs through downtown Kannapolis a few hours behind schedule. A couple seconds after I snapped this shot I turned around to see ... (more)

Former Norfolk & Western SD40-2 6184, leads a northbound freight through a nice s-curve just north of Grover North Carolina.

Prominent in this photo is a once ubiquitous symbol we should have kept, and another.............

The turn from Raleigh is doing some switching before escaping northward once again. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

Not much info on the slide. Looks like a local getting ready to do some work. Photo by unknown. From my collection.

Back when freight moved on this grade a northbound train is preparing for the climb. Excuse me if I don't show up to see the bicycles. Photo by Leroy Robl. From my collection.

The profile everyone seems to love.

Battle scars, neglect, the ravages of time show on this one. I hear about how great things were in the "good old days" but I suspect one would be hard pressed to to find a CSX unit this... (more)

Norfolk Southern’s first Heritage Unit, GP59 4610, was built in November 1989. It had been here in High Point for a few days doing local switching in the early 1990’s. While on my lunch brea... (more)