Heading west on the Blue Ridge District, a train of empty hoppers returns to the coal fields for a refill.
278 splits the signals at Burkeville on the approach to Crewe.
824 nears the end of their trip in Norfolk with an EMD leader.
An extra 824 coal train for Lambert's Point passes through Blackstone with a Dash 9 leading.
350 arrives in Selma from Greensboro with three GEs for power.
A Selma-bound NS 6W4 ethanol train heads into Raleigh with two UP units on the point.
Raleigh & Fayetteville RF01 trundles over the diamond with the NS NC Line and CSX Aberdeen Sub at Boylan, as North Carolina Central Prison looms in the background.
After holding for a Piedmont train, RF01 heads across the diamond at Boylan enroute to Glenwood Yard.
Amtrak's westbound Carolinian arrives in Raleigh in the late afternoon.
The returning Warsaw to Rocky Mount turn passes the Georgia Pacific plant in Dudley on their way south.
CSX local L231 heads south through Faison, NC bound for Warsaw, NC on the W&W Subdivision. This trackage is part of what was once the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad (hence W&W), which later began th... (more)
L614 arrives back in Apex with a slug set for power on a dreary day.
The day Apex Local arrives back in Apex on the former Durham & Southern, passing one of the few remaining farms on the D&S.
Just a minute before sunrise, Amtrak 73 makes their 06:30am departure out of Raleigh with the first Charlotte bound Piedmont train of the day.
Amtrak 77 charges out of Raleigh with "City of Durham" 1869 leading.
