Blue Ridge Southern train T59 works Jackson Paper in Sylva. This is a BLU's first run to Sylva.
The last NS P59 rolls towards Sylva. The following Saturday, the Southern heritage of the Murphy Branch became nothing but history as Blue Ridge Southern took control of the line.
NS 337 with a Warbonnet trailing rolls past Salisbury depot.
A CSX Coal train rolls under the pedestrian bridge at Pinebridge in Spruce Pine.
The conductor of P31 walks forward to line the switch for the main line. The train, headed by 3 classic EMDs and a classic-EMD-turned-slug is preparing for it's day trip to Asheville.
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.