NS 350 takes the opposite main on CSX's Aberdeen Sub as they head out of Cary and prepare to meet an empty ethanol train just around the curve.
The Atlanta & West Point Railroad's lone GP40-2 survives today as CSXT 6391. This unit was built as AWP 733 in November, 1974 and is still going strong almost 50 years later.
Raleigh & Fayetteville's night job departs Raleigh after sunset after getting a lineup across the diamond at Boylan behind Amtrak's Carolinian.
L620 arrives in Raleigh from Hamlet shortly after meeting counterpart L619.
The Carolinian arrives in Raleigh, where they'll have their first crew change of the trip to NYC.
Amtrak 75's deadhead move pulls through Boylan on the second of three times they'll cross the diamond.
Nearing Fuquay-Varina, Raleigh & Fayetteville's day local passes through the Willow Spring, an unincorporated community that is still fairly rural in the fast-growing Triangle region.
RF01 heads back to Varina Yard with a trio of four axles.
After picking up cars from NS at Glenwood Yard, RF01 proceeds back south through Southern Jct. with a trio of 4 axle units.
Raleigh & Fayetteville's morning crew sneaks over the diamond at Boylan ahead of a mid morning rush of Amtrak and CSX traffic with their two GP38s and B39-8 for power.
RF01 throttles out of the North Yard Limits at Varina bound for Raleigh to pick up a train off NS.
RF01 departs Fuquay-Varina as they pass some of the maintenance crews working on upgrading track on the Raleigh & Fayetteville.
Amtrak 75 pulls off the west leg of the wye at Boylan with a deadhead move for Raleigh as NS 350 passes in the foreground.
P59 departs with a pair of former GP38ACs now operating as a GP40-2 slug set for power.
Cross, SC to Grafton, WV empty coal hoppers pull away from the Washington Monument as they head north.