An NCTM conductor discusses the next move of Southern E8A 6900. This unit is equipped with ditch lights, an event recorder, and all other necessary items required for mainline use.

One of Bennett Levin's PRR E8s leads three coaches down the Charlotte District mainline on a high-dollar run back from the NCTM's Streamliners at Spencer event.

DLW 664 leads a photo freight by the flue shop at Spencer.

A photo freight led by DLW 664 hurries southward by the Southern Railway washroom at Spencer Yard as threatening skies build to the west.

N&W 611 sits coupled to Norfolk Southern maroon coaches for the first time in twenty years while attending the Streamliners event in Spencer.

A plethora of NS employees works hard to clean Bennett Levin's 5711 on the morning of Preview Day at Spencer. Of note is engineer Larry pressure washing on the right. Keep working hard, y'all.

Iowa Pacific E8A 4035, decorated for the Illinois Central, spins on the turntable in preparation to lead the museum train southbound.

Pan Am Railways FP9 1 sits on the turntable as a helicopter offering rides to paying customers flies overhead: a scene quite fitting for the North Carolina Transportation Museum.

The Pennsylvania Railroad train sits beside the Barber depot at the North Carolina Transportation Museum. This was certainly the quieter side of the property on preview day.

N&W 611 and NS 4271 sit side-by-side at the Bob Julian roundhouse as NS employees prepare to wash their F-unit.

Posing as IC 4035, the Iowa Pacific E8 leads the museum train late in the afternoon with the Wabash F7 on the other end. Here, they're getting ready to throttle up as they duck under the Southern ... (more)

As the sun swung around later in the afternoon and several engines had not been rotated yet, plentiful opportunities arose to shoot the cab units. Here, DLW 664 takes its turn to spin on the South... (more)

Baretable train 20D scoots through Salisbury with an ailing Dash 8 out front as the conductor enjoys some natural air conditioning on a hot and humid day in the south.

Loaded Wateree, SC coal train Q86 sits clear of the crossings at Church Street, ready to come off the S-Line and head south to Columbia.

NS train 348 gets ready to pull from the Old Yard at Spencer/Salisbury with two Canadian engines in the lashup as local power sits to the left. They are leaving with 46 cars for Spartanburg.