Amtrak 92 detours via Greensboro. This is actually the trailing unit (put in place so the train can head north from Greensboro without having to turn the whole thing). You can see the lead engine ... (more)

Downtown Durham is a mix of historic buildings and ugly parking garages built in the name of "urban renewal". The city's beautiful Union Station was demolished to give space for the parking garage... (more)

Eastbound manifest 350 cruises through Efland enroute to Raleigh.

Amtrak 80 rounds a curve high up on an embankment along Interstate 85 just west of Durham.

Spring is in full bloom in NC, framing Amtrak 79 as it blows through Durham.

An ex-BN unit is a rare visitor to this area in my experience. He adds some nice color to this lashup as the eastbound grain train heads toward Raleigh.

A young railfan covers his ears as a high-hood GP50 blows for the un-gated crossing, leading a cut of 6 empty coal cars back to the main.

The profile of N&W 611 has always been, to me, one of the great icons of industrial engineering. For a few days, she was able to stretch her legs and sun herself outside of her birthplace, the Roa... (more)

In addition to the sparkling-clean N&W locos 611 and 1218, there was a third steam loco which was part of Norfolk Southern's 125th anniversary of the Roanoke Shops. Virginia Museum of Transportati... (more)

The mammoth NW Type-A 1218 ventured out of the Virginia Museum of Transportation for the first time in years to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the East End Shops.

N&W 611 ventured out of the Virginia Museum of Transportation for the first time in years to help Norfolk Southern celebrate the 125th anniversary of Roanoke's East End Shops back in September 200... (more)

The Hotel Roanoke was built by the Norfolk & Western Railroad for its passengers and businessmen in 1882. While the city has grown up substantially since those days, today you can still see the ne... (more)

The Northbound Carolinian departs Durham Station on a crisp spring morning. The shorter building under the Liggett & Myers sign has been proposed to be the location of the new passenger station, r... (more)

The Northbound Carolinian rumbles through South Durham toward its next stop in Cary on the first day of March, 2008

The Montana Rockies Railtours tourist train crosses Greenhorn Trestle on our journey west to Sandpoint, ID. Very soon the train will go through Mullan Tunnel at the crest of Mullan Pass. Riding... (more)