The brutal heat of the mid-afternoon sun beats down on the fields of the Piedmont as a CSX train scorches the rails of the old Seaboard Air Line just East of Polkton, NC

An aging Dash 9 brings a new SD70ACe, and a couple of Foreign visitors through Claremont, NC, with train 135.

NS local P29 has just completed their day in Statesville and is making the run back to Barber Junction. Crossing over Third Creek "lake", floodwaters left behind by Hurricane Michael on ... (more)

NS 135 struggles to bring its almost 2 mile long train up to speed after pausing to meet 134 at Claremont, and having to negotiate the tight curve at the old Newton Depot site.

NS 135 is biting hard in to the grade as it climbs up the famed Southern Loops toward Andrews Geyser and High Fill.

NS 135 hustles through Statesville, skirting around a very nasty thunderstorm.

The Asheville District locals have for many years now been a reliable source for finding the older EMD power on full display. SD40-2s, GP38-2s, etc., were a staple, with the same exact engines run... (more)

A beautiful Spring afternoon finds NS 135 rolling West at the S56.7 behind an Elephant style lashup of UP-UP-BNSF power

135 at 8th Avenue near downtown Hickory.

Train 162 rolls across the I-40 overpass in Conover, NC

M23 works hard as it pulls away from Oyama Yard in Hickory, NC. The train has just met 135, and will spend another hour long delay just 10 miles East of here, before finally heading on to Linwood,... (more)

Train 135 is at the 61 Milepost on the NS Asheville District. A little spot just outside Hickory known as "Long View". Take a drive along old US 70 as it follows the line, and the name o... (more)

Amtrak 77, the last Southbound "Piedmont" service of the day, slows down as it crosses Kerr Street to make its station stop at Salisbury, NC.

The sun is beating down on this late July afternoon, as a pair of NS GEVO's back down in to the old Virginian Railway Yard, after helping to bring in another load of Black Gold. The bridge that... (more)

NS 6944 teams up with a TFM SD70M and a KCS SD70ACe to bring train 162 East through Claremont and a beautiful, but very cold Winter morning.