Some 36 years after the original Norfolk Southern was folded into the Southern Railway network, its heritage still lives on throughout the Old North State. Here, the Carolina Coastal Plymouth - Ch... (more)

As a railfan often photographing trains from afar, it's easy to forget just how massive these things are. A reminder of the scale of these machines is provided by a SHP officer surveying the damag... (more)

Just a few hours after the grade crossing accident and ensuing fire, Mid East Rail Service crews have the heavy equipment up and working to get the NCDOT locomotive back on track and reopen the ra... (more)

Local news crews roll tape and interview witnesses for the 12 o'clock news following the grade crossing accident and ensuing fire this morning.

Mebane Fire Department trucks line the street just a block from the firehouse as Mid East Railroad Service crews begin the process of getting NCDOT 1792 back on the rails following the grade cross... (more)

At approximately 8:05AM May 13, 2010, Amtrak 73 the "Piedmont" was traveling westbound through Mebane, NC when it struck a low-boy trailer that had become stuck on the 5th St. grade crossing. The ... (more)

With white flags flying, the M&NJ conductor rides up front and gets ready to flag the next crossing as we approach another photo op during the last run to Slate Hill.

The sign says it all - last run to Slate Hill for the M&NJ, the end of an era.

Alone with my thoughts in a silent dome car, I take in the scene as the rising sun shines through a heavy blanket of fog over the Restigouche River. Meanwhile The Ocean's cars are split from our t... (more)

The 614 storms through the New York countryside on a fall excursion

"Seven hundred tons of metal a day..." The pour. With only a matter of weeks left before the blast furnaces at Bethlehem Steel would fall silent and cold, I was fortunate enough to see this monume... (more)

"These mills they built the tanks and bombs, That won this country's wars..." To an outsider such as myself, Bethlehem Steel was truly incomprehensible in its scale and complexity. An aging hulk, ... (more)

"A job that'd suit the devil as well..." Man-made lava on the slag dump. With only a matter of weeks left before the blast furnaces at Bethlehem Steel would fall silent and cold, I was fortunat... (more)

Jammed between the old freight house tracks (left) and the spur to UNC (right) the "Southern Rail" restaurant has a little outdoor eating area filled with odds and ends including this large birdho... (more)

"Top Hat" GP38-2 smokes it up as it accelerates uphill with a cut of coal cars for the UNC Cogeneration Facility. The co-evolution of a number of industries and the railroad led to an odd arrangem... (more)