WAMX 3939 sits in the maintenance service area in the Blue Ridge Southern yard in Canton, North Carolina.

Work goes on at the Evergreen Packaging plant while WAMX 4203 and WAMX 4201 are tied down for the night in the Blue Ridge Southern yard in Canton, North Carolina.

WAMX 3945 and WAMX 3943 are tied down for the night after switching cars in the Blue Ridge Southern yard in Canton, North Carolina.

Blue Ridge Southern power make up a train at their yard in Canton.

After putting its train together and confirming orders in the office, BLU T31 starts its pull to Asheville for interchange with Norfolk Southern. The main customer on the line in the form of a lar... (more)

Watco's Blue Ridge Southern job W44 works SCM concrete in Fletcher, NC along the former A&S line to Spartanburg.

The daily local to Waynesville returns to Canton after switching out Evergreen Packaging's bleachboard coating mill in Waynesville, NC.

Westbound Blue Ridge Southern train T-31 crosses the High Bridge at East Canton on the return trip from Asheville.

Last train on the TR line- Blue Ridge Southern W44 prepares to shove over South Grove Street in Hendersonville to couple to a string of brand new trash container flat cars that have been in storag... (more)

Blue Ridge Southern 4203 returning to Canton NC after run to Asheville YARD

Blue Ridge Southern T59 executes the runaround move at the pocket track at Jackson County Paper to shove GSMR 1009 westward one mile to its new home.

Blue Ridge Southern T59 does a local switch at Giles Chemical in Waynesville before proceeding west to Sylva to deliver Great Smoky Mountain Railroad's newest purchase.

Downtown Sylva rarely sees rail traffic these days. Blue Ridge Southern's westernmost regular customer is at MP 43, east of town, and Great Smoky Mtns RR operations are from Dillsboro west. That... (more)

Great Smoky Mountains GP38-3, disguised as a GP35, makes a striking blue appearance trailing behind BLU's much larger GP39-2s.

THE BEST FRIEND. This little guy is everything to me. He's one of the best railfanning buddies a guy can have. He's enjoying the sun while I shoot BLU with Great Smoky Mountains 1009, a new acquis... (more)