Amtrak/NCDOT "Open Express" 1171 heads through Apex with a mixed consist of NCDOT, Amtrak and ACWR passenger equipment running from Raleigh to Pinehurst for the US Open.
It's a muggy summer evening with a T-Storm brewing behind me as CSX's Monon heritage locomotive #1897 leads empty Coal Train E248-14 northbound through Calera, AL. passing by the Western Maryland ... (more)