NS 350 crosses the CSX South End Sub at grade as they pass the famed station at Selma near the end of their trip from Greensboro with eastern NC manifest traffic.

L620 hustles through downtown Cary with a short consist for Raleigh.

240 is near the end of it's cross-country journey from California to the Charlotte intermodal yard just 8 miles ahead. They're passing a favorite photo location, the Southern-era signal bridge in... (more)

Historic Signals. The daily 24X passes under the remnant SOU signal bridge at Lowell, NC, which has somehow survived the fate that has befallen most old signals on the NS line.

ATW GP15-1 1578 brings up the rear of a move to the CSX interchange in Sanford on a cool late fall morning.

ATW shoves to the CSX interchange at Sanford, their diamond with CSX in the background along with the ex-Seaboard station.

Some fall color is still hanging on as R653 empty Terrell coal train passes Berry Hill Farms in Iron Station, NC.

R653 is starting to make it's way off the Terrell sub at Mount Holly. It's starting up the Charlotte sub with an empty Terrell coal train.

A Norfolk Southern GP59 works the yard in Asheville, North Carolina as it pulls a string of tank cars out towards the east end of the yard. In the background, the power from the Blue Ridge Souther... (more)

Riding the Rails. The ACWR's F9A-B set leads a set of passenger cars from Candor to Charlotte.

Loaded grain train 50X passes the Cary station with colorful trees providing a sharp contract to the NS black GE leader.

With fall colors shining in the background, Amtrak Piedmont service train 77 pulls towards the Cary Depot.

Piedmont 74, the first east/northbound train of the day, departs Cary with a pair of F59PH's bracketing 5 coaches.

L619 takes a single car from Raleigh towards Hamlet with a couple big GEs for power.

A P42 with accident damage leads the Carolinian out of Cary.