The crew of NS train 350 tries to cool down on a hot summer day as their train rolls along the double track toward Raleigh.

The conductor of NS train 350 inspects train 349 as it passes. Meanwhile, an NS work train sits on the siding.

A long string of GATX tankers makes up part of CSX train Q400 departing Hamlet yard.

07/07/07, a hot July day finds a CSX freight headed into the yard at Hamlet, North Carolina.

Aberdeen, Carolina & Western F7A #4501 sits outside the company headquarters in Star, North Carolina.

An eastbound Union Pacific intermodal train rolls through the Arizona desert just after sunrise.

After waiting for a westbound train, a UP stack train emerges from the siding and onto the single track main headed east.

Amtrak's Carolinian makes a station stop at Cary, North Carolina.

Assorted power, including this switcher from Red Springs and Northern RR, sit at the Laurinburg and Southern shops in Laurinburg, North Carolina.

A late Amtrak train 80, the Carolinian, meets an early NS train 349 at Raleigh, North Carolina.

Norfolk Southern train #233 snakes its way into the yard at Bluefield, West Virginia.

The last rays of the setting sun illuminate the front of BNSF C44-9W #4314 as it sits in the servicing facility at Bluefield yard.

Empty hopper cars are reflected in the window of UP SD70M #4967 at Norfolk Southern's Bluefield yard.

Initially running long-hood forward, NS C40-9W #9028 uncouples from its train and goes around the wye in preparation for departure from Greensboro.

Norfolk Southern #8332, an ex-Conrail C40-8W leads train 11R south out of the Greensboro yard.