Q693 winds its way to the summit just ahead at Altapass, passing one of the few on-line customers: the Quartz Corporation at the waypoint once known as Floatation.
611 pulls out of the NCTM lead on it's victory run to Roanoke following the restoration. P88 with intermodal from Charlotte makes an appearance on Track 1. A throng of railfans just north of her... (more)
P42 has run around the boxcars and heads south over Thicketty Creek on the Piedmont Division main. The train will switch the WestRock paper mill just a few miles to the south at Cowpens.