1702 leads a westbound train out of Bryson City for the Nantahala Gorge.

NS 337 with a Warbonnet trailing rolls past Salisbury depot.

T59 returns east after dropping cars at Jackson Paper in Sylva. While most of the Murphy Branch between Asheville and Addie is heavy continuous welded rail, needed to safely transport loaded LPG t... (more)

Two Blue Ridge Southern trains meet between Canton and Asheville on a sunny January day... Unfortunately traffic doesn't justify such and this is only the daily turn passing a cut of boxcars store... (more)

Engineer Tim Keegan brings T59 past Evergreen Packaging before shoving into plant to switch out the boxcars.

CSX C40-8 #7375 and SD70MAC #4818 head a general manifest train at Erwin yard. After a quick crew change, the train throttles up for it's trip across the Blue Ridge Subdivision.

The Tuckasseegee River excursion train led ex-Army 2-8-0 #1702 leaves the main line and enters the siding where it will stop to off load.

T59's train stretches through the rolling hills of West Waynesville. The whole line from Canton to Balsam is like this, one two percent grade rolling into another. This particular train was the lo... (more)

GSMR 1702 pokes out of the trees along the shore of Fontana Lake.

A southbound work train that we thought we had missed made an unexpected appearance as it rounded the bend at CP Junker in north Charlotte. This train was hauling TS2, a complete track crew includ... (more)

1751 rolls to a stop in front of the old Southern Railway boarding houses at Whittier. The passengers will debark at the railroad's event field for the Pumpkin Patch Express event.

T31 heads east through Hominy Valley.

T59 rolls westbound through the suburbs of Waynesville. I just recently moved into this area and immediately eyed this out of place field as a potential photo location. It only took me about a wee... (more)

T31 engines are just poking out of a tree tunnel and into the sun. The train is switching and picking up a GREX rock train that has just been loaded at Vulcan's Enka quarry.

Two of Livonia, Avon, and Lakeville's gorgeous Alcos switch out hopper cars from the warehouse at Sweeteners Plus in Lakeville. The afternoon light glows on the nose of low hood C425. I made this ... (more)