Daily local P61 begins their journey to Oyama (Hickory, NC) with three veteran EMD products, the typical power for this train.
After heavy snowfall blanketed the Carolinas the day prior, I decided that I needed to get out and take a few shots. The first train we see is train 135 bound for Tennessee pulling the grade at Fi... (more)
Amtrak 75 kicks up snow dust as they highball toward their next station stop in Salisbury. It took me slipping and falling in the snow and almost sliding down a small hill to get this shot.
Executive Fs looking more in character with a freight train ready to head west make a fine sight in one of the most photographed re-creations.
A classic spartan cab SD70 leads a train of Chapel Hill bound coal loads through the curve at East Spencer as the N&W 611 deadhead move arrives on the north Old Spencer Yard lead on a snowy aftern... (more)
A light snowfall greets the N&W 611 as it steams up Yadkin Hill on its final approach to the North Carolina Transportation Museum, where it will spend the next few months getting prepared for anot... (more)
Linwood to Macon train 119 is just underway from Spencer Yard with three GEs struggling to hold the rail amidst the snow and sleet with a big train. The lead unit is a product of Norfolk Southern'... (more)
Having just departed Linwood Yard, Norfolk Southern train P61 heads south through Spencer, NC on December 30, 2016. Once in Salisbury, it will continue west on the S-line.
In the early morning sunlight, Amtrak train 73, the morning Piedmont service, heads south through Spencer, NC on December 30, 2016.
Amtrak 74 zips by Five Row toward the next station stop at High Point, NC. In the distance is local P61. I wanted to get the trains side by side, but didn't have time to put the telephoto on the c... (more)
NS P61 tackles the hill at Five Row with a rather short train bound for various industries on the S-line.
NS 91Q runs light to pick up their train of ties bound for the N-line between Salisbury and Albemarle.
Rock dumper 97Q heads south with two old workhorses doing the honors.
