Calera & Shelby No. 2022 has just completed the last run of the day, and waits patiently on the small wooden bridge while her Conductor lines the switch to the house track to be put away for the n... (more)

The stars of the show on National Train Day. I'm really glad to hear the news today that 3170 is being donated to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. While I do wish she'd have stayed closer to ... (more)

NS 134 passes the foundation left by the old Southern Railway depot at Newton. Lead today by 2 ex-UP SD90MACs, an ES44DC, and an older Standard Cab SD70.

N&W 611 storms Eastbound around a curve near Bonsack, along old US 460. She's making a good run on the Blue Ridge Grade this morning, and the air is just cool enough to keep the steam condensing a... (more)

Every so often in this hobby, you get lucky and a little window opens up to give us a glimpse of what used to be. Today Southern Railway 3170 teamed up with GP30 No. 2601 to bring back some amazin... (more)

135 rejoins the main after waiting for 134 to pass at Connelly Springs.

"So reliable and versatile, if you put tires on 'em they'd follow you home!" A statement a friend of my Father once made about the SD40-2 comes to mind as NS P61 runs engines light across old H... (more)

A Standard Cab D9 brings empty Duke hoppers through the West Connelly signals

NS 745 brings empty Duke Power hoppers by the West Connelly signals.

Local P60 runs engines light through Conover, on its way to Statesville for its daily chores. The ex-N&W SD40-2 wastes no time zipping along this section of abandoned mills and factories.

It's a warm, early Spring day in 1956, and the shop switcher is busy bringing completed cars out of the Budd plant outside Philadelphia. The latest cars being completed for the Pennsylvania Railro... (more)

After meeting 134 at Connelly Springs, NS 135 gets underway with a large battery of power. Here the locomotives are swinging around the West Connelly Springs signal, and re-entering the main line.... (more)

NS 135 is biting hard in to the grade as it climbs up the famed Southern Loops toward Andrews Geyser and High Fill.

Ex N&W GP9 No. 620 rests beside the Barber, NC depot, waiting for another day to arrive for more passengers. 620 is one of only a few remaining locomotives that wore every paint scheme N&W ever ha... (more)

NS M35 gets underway, leaning in to the super elevated curve at Eufola, after dropping off a car that tripped the Defect Detector at the S29.1. The car was reading 218 degrees above ambient temper... (more)