The temperature is rising and the clouds parting on a beautiful Saturday afternoon as NS local P20 heads slowly back to Durham, passing through a quaint Carolina farm scene.

The conductor of local P20 rides past the switch into the Certainteed plant as the engineer pulls the train out onto the main. After a brake test, it's back to Durham.

The engineer of P20 climbs on board as he prepares to shove a cut of cars into the Certainteed plant near Oxford. The old Southern Railway sign proudly displays the track's heritage.

On February 13th, a rare daylight run for P20 corresponded with a rare snowfall in central NC, resulting in numerous new-found photo opportunities. Here the local is seen approaching the crossing ... (more)

The warm ballast has already melted away its snow cover, but the crossties remain covered as the sun shines on the rear of P20, slowly making its way north toward Oxford.

Local P20 is passing under the eastbound D&S Junction signal which guards the junction of the ex-Southern mainline with the ex-Sou and ex-SAL branches going north (at left) and the ex-Durham & Sou... (more)

An overcast sky gives way to puffy white clouds on a background of deep blue as P20 shoves a string of ex-N&W and ex-SOU covered hoppers back into the storage track at the end of a Saturday run.

Back inside the city limits of Durham, P20 passes the North Durham Little League Complex, "A Field of Dreams"

The conductor of local P20 waits outside the Durham Yard Office for the light engines to come off the storage track after dropping their train as they put the locos away on another track.

It took a few years, but I finally caught Norfolk Southern's Durham-Oxford local P20 during the day. Operating on ex Southern Railway trackage, the turn makes its way south out of the town of Butn... (more)