After a trip down the Blue Ridge mountains on Norfolk Southerns “S Line”, NS 166 awaits a signal at Church St onto the Ex-Southern main.

Braswell Mountain was shut down for ~24 hours by fallen trees from a freak December 8th 2017 snowstorm that dumped 12". The resulting tree clearing a year later has opened up many new angles... (more)

NS 419 eastbound with it's head end just east of the interlocking at CP 194 meets a westbound stack train

134 passes through Azalea after departing Asheville to begin its 140 mile run to Salisbury, NC.

66E snakes through Azalea with its full woodchip hoppers from Silverstreet, SC in tow for the paper mill at Canton, NC.

Belmont coal loads snake through the S curve at Craggy as the approach Asheville along the river line.

A NS SD70M and a lease unit lead a second 283 train west under Union Pacific's Milwaukee Subdivision and out of Milwaukee for points west.

NS 2598 heads underneath the Ex PRR signal bridge at Summerhill. Just a few moments before, 262 and 534 were headed east at the same time, would have made an interesting shot.

NS 145 is about to roll under I-90 on the NS Cloggsville Line, after crossing the Cleveland Drawbridge and splitting off the ex-NKP line to Bellevue. The covered hoppers in the background are for... (more)

36A crests the hill at AR and begins down "the slide" with NS 2598 on the point.

After a maintainer had Track 1 out of service for a few hours between MO (Cresson) and MG, NS 36A was the first train on the reopened track. NS SD70M 2598 and C40-9W 9369 crest the summit in front... (more)