Blue Ridge Southern train T59 in Sylva

Blue Ridge Southern T59 winds down Balsam Mountain approaching the 40 Milepost on the T Line headed for Sylva to interchange a locomotive with the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad.

Blue Ridge Southern T59 executes the runaround move at the pocket track at Jackson County Paper to shove GSMR 1009 westward one mile to its new home.

Downtown Sylva rarely sees rail traffic these days. Blue Ridge Southern's westernmost regular customer is at MP 43, east of town, and Great Smoky Mtns RR operations are from Dillsboro west. That... (more)

Great Smoky Mountains GP38-3, disguised as a GP35, makes a striking blue appearance trailing behind BLU's much larger GP39-2s.

T59 is easing into Sylva with a rare three pack of GP39's. Behind them are 5 89' flat cars loaded with rail for interchange with Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. This day started with a long wait f... (more)

T59 returns east after dropping cars at Jackson Paper in Sylva. While most of the Murphy Branch between Asheville and Addie is heavy continuous welded rail, needed to safely transport loaded LPG t... (more)

From earlier this year, Blue Ridge Southern return through Sylva after dropping off three flat cars loaded with rail for Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. I found this image while looking for a few ... (more)

Two trains and two railroads meet for a hand-off of three UNLOADED flat cars. If it seems like we've been here before, we have. Three days after Blue Ridge Southern dropped off loads of rail to th... (more)

Two trains and two railroads meet for a hand-off of three loaded flat cars. Blue Ridge Southern has just backed through downtown Sylva to the MP 47 on the western end of town. Great Smoky Mountain... (more)

T59 pushes through the weeds and brush just outside of Sylva.

With class(y) lights lit green, 3943 leads T59 back east to Sylva.

Is it a cold winter day in 1984, a Southern GP38-2 in it's new uniform lugging a train towards Murphy? Well this cell phone shot is just a bit better quality than would be possible then I would th... (more)

For the second operating day in a row, T59 has went on the law in Sylva. According to a friend, the delays are due to track work east of town. I'm sure the nasty weather and long hood forward trip... (more)

T59 went through Waynesville several hours late so I somewhat expected them to be tied down in Sylva. They were.