Ex-Southern, NS 3561 leads the empties headed back to Roanoke, VA.

NS 3524 & 5608 tied down for the night with a track geometry train across from the old Wabash Railroad station. The geometry units are research slug NS 34 and research car NS 33.

NS 3560, a B32-8 spends Memorial Day Weekend on the diesel pit in Nitro.

A B32-8 leads a worktrain west.

A pair of 21 year old B32-8 locomotives leads a line of freight cars on it journey down to West Point this Sunday morning.

Three B32-8's and a GP60 lead southbound train 213 over the Saluda River Bridge in Crosswell.

The Nitro Yard engine spends the night on this clear night on the engine pit.

NS 3555, the Nitro Local idles by the yard office as NS 380 works the yard in the background.

A westbound approaches Roanoke Terminal with a B32-8 (3561), GP38AC (4130), and two SD40-2s (3218 + 6075).

A school bus pulls up to the crossing just as NS local P07 activates the lights and bells.

The sign reading "Sun Mountain Weaving" is in relatively good shape, but the trees growing out of the walkway in front of the dilapidated building speak to a long period of inactivity. Behind it, ... (more)

Westbound crossing the NS/CSX diamond at Opelika. This was one of those unusual consists that could be seen shortly after the Conrail split: NS 3543, CSXT 8440, HLGX 525 (leased C30-7).

Passing a mini-orchard on the way to Carrboro

Burlington Local P07 trundles across one of several grade crossings on the line to Carrboro protected only with the classic crossbucks.

This is Piedmont North Carolina branch line railroading - Burlington Local P07 passes by the giant sign for the Farm House Restaurant, a rustic steak house in the woods north of Chapel Hill. Direc... (more)