The 30th Anniversary NCDOT F59PH trails train 73 out of Raleigh.

after a severe thunderstorm, Amtrak 75 pulls into it's final station, Charlotte. Bringing up the rear is North Carolina DOT's new 30th anniversary heritage engine, sporting the original NCDOT live... (more)

North Carolina DOT's new 30th anniversary heritage engine for the first time since being painted leading train 76 in Concord

The newest Heritage Unit made its first run today on NCDOT's Piedmont service. This 30th Anniversary scheme was applied to F59PH 1893 while being overhauled in Brookville, PA earlier this year. Th... (more)

North Carolina Railroad (Amtrak) 71 at the Southern Railway Station in Salisbury

Piedmont 74 arrives in Raleigh from Charlotte as Carolinian 79 prepares to set off a unit for 74 to take back to the NCDOT yard.

Amtrak 73 pulls out of the station in Greensboro with a pair of F59PHs bracketing a set of Piedmont cars.

Amtrak Piedmont train 77 passes the Efland station sign on their way west in the late afternoon.

Amtrak 71 makes it way south through Lexington during a late winter torrential downpour

A Piedmont consist arrives in Cary with F59PH 1810 on the rear.

A Piedmont train pulls out of Cary in rare late February snow.

Piedmont train 73 departs Cary behind a former GO F59 Cab Control Unit, at home in the rare for this part of NC snow.

The NCDOT Piedmont equipment doesn't often see snow, but today was an exception as train 73 pulls by the Page-Walker Hotel building in Cary with a couple inches of fresh snow and more falling.

A Piedmont train set rolls into Cary on a cold winter morning.

Amtrak 75 arrives in Cary behind City of Durham RNCX 1869. After overnight snowfall covered the region, it mostly melted off by the time this early afternoon train operated.