Old meets new as the aging covered hopper, complete with the Wabash flag, sets idle as a Catfish leads 173 past E. Gastonia, 20 west of Charlotte on the former SOU main. The car had a BLT date of... (more)
Empty Belmont hopper train 751 (left) overtakes lame Triple Crown train 265 (right) at Cramerton, NC, 15 miles W of Charlotte on NS's Piedmont Division. 265 lost their air and had to wait for a s... (more)
The north bound Carolinian switches from track 2 to track 1 at the 11th Street interlocking in Salisbury, NC, 40 miles NE of Charlotte on NS's Piedmont Division. The Salisbury Switcher waits to en... (more)
An unexpected heavy snow shower envelops Q696 as it comes out of a meet at the north end of the Duke siding, 12 miles NW of Charlotte. The green signal is a spring switch indicator that simply con... (more)
The Piedmont heads up the grade from the Yadkin River between Spencer Yard and the NC Transportation Museum at Spencer. This location is on NS's Piedmont Division former SOU main, 45 miles NE of ... (more)
Q181's power is returning to the former CRR yard after turning the power on the P&N wye to get a Dash-9 in the lead. The tunnel was the south end of the Clinchfield and passes under the NS Piedmo... (more)
The north bound Carolinian passes 350 at the east end of the McLeansville Siding (CP Superior), 9 miles E of Greensboro, NC. 350 had just had a fire on their lead GP38-2 and had to add the catfis... (more)
NS 213 passes under the cantilever signal mast at the Edna interlocking in Reidsville, about 20 miles north of Greensboro, with the "Lucky Strikes" logo figuring prominently on the smokestack in t... (more)
The north bound Silver Star passes the local at Weldon, NC, 90 miles S of Richmond, VA on the former ACL main. The Star is on the approach to the Roanoke River viaduct, while the local is on the ... (more)
P92 takes a break from the normal duties on the Yadkin branch and makes a run to Spencer yard. This location is on the Piedmont Division main (former SOU), 45 miles NE of Charlotte.
Train 173 heads south at Main Street in Belmont, 12 miles west of Charlotte, with an all-EMD consist
The spacer car between the locomotives is needed to spread the load on the Buffalo Creek trestle.
