After just getting a good pressure wash at Roanoke, the Conrail heritage motor leads train M34 through the old industrial district in Lexington with threatening skies looming in the background.
NS M34, an extra section 134, eases by Five Row and prepares to enter Linwood Yard. The crew would make it into the yard just in time before "lawing out."
Not long after sunrise, NS M34, an extra section 134, prepares to take a "diverging clear" signal at Church St. from the eastbound onto the Charlotte District mainline.
NS 9354 has just came through Murphy Junction crossing the French Broad River in Asheville, NC.
NS train M34 eases around High Fill towards Old Fort NC on the famous NS S-Line Loops
NS train M34 eastbound out of Asheville at Glendale Ave.
CN power is unique enough in western North Carolina, but Standard Cab, EX-UP CN's leading are a rare treat. Here, M34 passes over the French Broad River as is approaches Asheville.
Eastbound extra "M34" passes through Marshall, NC on this crisp fall afternoon.
The photographer celebrates his birthday by following this eastbound down the famous Old Fort Loops. M34 will soon meet WB mixed freight 135 at Old Fort.
A classic Eagle 4-way traffic light hangs over the intersection of Mims Ave. and Main Street in downtown Newport as NS freight train M34 breaks the Sunday morning silence on its journey to Ashevil... (more)
NS 6785 leads train M34 eastbound through the rural scene at Bridgeport, TN on the S-line between Knoxville and Asheville.