NS 8099, the Southern heritage unit, makes it way slowly past several museum engines adorning various Southern schemes from an angle not often photographed.
Norfolk Southern train 211 is seen late-running out of Linwood, NC, account storm delays to the north, with Union Pacific ES44AC 7391 leading UP ES44AC 5484, NS SD60I 6758 and SD70M-2 2648, as see... (more)
A NB coasts down the hill at Five Row lead by ex Conrail 6133.
Back to work. The first group of Heritage Units to leave the party starts their journey west.
As the reflection of dawn's pink light slowly takes shape in the Charlotte skyline, Norfolk Southern's early yard job shoves a cut of cars toward downtown while the conductor on the ground prepare... (more)
A ubiquitous GE catfish blasts southbound through Kannapolis with a loaded coal train. This 1/15th of a second zoom-pan makes me dizzy if I look at it larger than 1024 pixels.
Another Republic Locomotive Works product. The nickname 'Big Bird' would fit this centercab well! I believe this is a GE 45 Ton unit
Southern 630 entering Salisbury on the first employee excursion on June 9th.
MP&ES Open House/Santa Fe F-7 Unveiling! Today was the big day as a reserved group of no more than 200 people attended the first open house MP&ES has hosted. The main attraction was the unv... (more)
An Ex. EMD demostrator, built August 1950, and one of the first to be equipped with a turbo charger, this GP20 is another MP&ES project, once complete, will be shipped to Charleston to its new own... (more)
NS 162 coasts downhill at Five Row with an elephant style consist on a beautiful morning.
Southern 630 waits for a local to pass before departing Spartanburg.
Southern 630 crosses over Thicketty Creek on it's way to Spencer Shops in NC.
A no truck crossing sign lays in the grass on S Battleground Avenue after a truck that got stuck on the Oak St. railroad crossing was hit Wednesday afternoon by a Norfolk Southern intermodal train... (more)