Woodchips bound for the soon to close Evergreen mill at Canton, NC grind through Jarrett's tunnel on the Old Fort loops.

Snow showers cover the tops of the Blue Ridge Mountains as westbound P87 climbs the Old Fort loops in western North Carolina with woodchips for the Evergreen mill at Canton. In less than 10 weeks... (more)

The end is near for woodchips going to the Canton, NC mill from Bristol packaging at Bridgewater. Storage cars line the sidings at Old Fort that used to be used to meet trains before the line was... (more)

P87 is just about finished with their round trip to Bridgewater as they arrive back in Asheville.

P87 prepares to climb the Loops with a train of hoppers and woodchip gons in tow.

NS's chip local rounds the last horseshoe curve on their climb at the loops with a lengthy train for Asheville.

P87 makes their return trip to Asheville as they pull upgrade in the middle of the the Loops.

NS #8073 leads westbound P87 loaded to the brim with wood chips from Bristol industries at Bridgewater bound for the Evergreen papermill at Canton, NC.

351 departs Durham with 6 units including 3 local units picked up here. Some remnants of Sunday's storm remains on the ground, but not for long as the sun melted it by the afternoon.

NS 18G makes its way east on the Norfolk Southern Line. Behind the leader is NS 9089 (C44-9W; rebuilt into AC44C6M NS 4299 in July of 2020.

Last train before dinner in the evening light, NS 19G coming through Cresson passing the Station Inn.

T99 rolls through the seemingly abandoned yard in Lake City. Up until the past few months NS would stage empty wood chip and coal hoppers until they were needed at their appropriate businesses up ... (more)

With three motors holding back 55 wet, loaded wood chip hoppers on the steep grade, T99 rolls across Cove Creek on its journey south to Clinton, Knoxville and eventually Asheville.

NS T99 brings a cut of 55 wood chip loads south from Royal Blue on the Jellico Branch. This as-needed local is passing the former National Coal loadout at Turley, now utilized by a logging company... (more)