Two of the most common components of the American skyline, silhouetted against a misty sky. By next week the rails to Duke will be torn up, these crossing lights will be gone, and another small pi... (more)
10 months ago, Duke's steam generation plant stopped receiving coal by train, and the last few hundred feet of rail were removed to make way for expansion of the hospital. Now, the rest of the spu... (more)
Brightleaf Square in downtown Durham is lit up for the holidays as NS 349 streaks across a bridge against a cold winter sky.
Amtrak 74 pauses in the new Durham Amtrak Station on a rainy fall night. The city's new bus station is in the foreground, part of a renewed emphasis on public transportation.
Ballast train NS 918 heads back west out of Durham after being loaded at the Sun Rock quarry north of town. The track in the road is the siding to Brenntag, served daily by the Durham Yard Job. I ... (more)
Local P20 is passing under the eastbound D&S Junction signal which guards the junction of the ex-Southern mainline with the ex-Sou and ex-SAL branches going north (at left) and the ex-Durham & Sou... (more)
An overcast sky gives way to puffy white clouds on a background of deep blue as P20 shoves a string of ex-N&W and ex-SOU covered hoppers back into the storage track at the end of a Saturday run.
Back inside the city limits of Durham, P20 passes the North Durham Little League Complex, "A Field of Dreams"
The conductor of local P20 waits outside the Durham Yard Office for the light engines to come off the storage track after dropping their train as they put the locos away on another track.
The Amtrak logo stands out against the brick wall of the historic Walker Warehouse which houses Durham's new rail station.
Crossbucks and a golden sunset
Never again... This photo used for the cover of the 1999 NCDOT transportation/roadway map can never be repeated. The GP-40 is now Virginia Railway Express number V24 and the super dome has been so... (more)
Waiting to be unloaded
Steel on Steel
