Spencer's beautiful F-unit is about to depart with another run around the yard and shop complex. A large piece of MOW equipment sits to the right. If anyone could enlighten those such as myself ... (more)

The twins head back to Bonsal in the afternoon. Though built 11 years apart, these 40 ton Vulcan saddle tanks have nearly identical specs: 38 inch drivers, 14x22 inch cylinders, and 18,000 lbs. o... (more)

Fire patrol New Hope Valley style. Note the water tank and pump being towed behind the engine on motor car trailers. In the distance, the high-railer that was giving rides to photographers can b... (more)

The crew keeps an eye out for brush fires set by the 75. The NHVR is operated by the East Carolina Chapter NRHS. The all volunteer operation were very accomodating and even gave me a ride out to... (more)

The hogger of the fire patrol train keeps an eye on the track ahead as we follow the steam special out the line.

Teakettles times 2: Flagg Coal 75 (1930) teams up with NHVR's own Vulcan 0-4-0T #17 (1941) for two weekends of doubleheaded trips on the 4 mile line this month. If you look carefully, you can see... (more)

Flagg Coal 75 had to be one of the most well traveled steam engines today. Here it is seen double heading with a twin Vulcan 0-4-0T on the New Hope Valley RR. The 4 mile line is very tight in th... (more)

We watch through the cracked window pane of this old 1941 Whitcomb switcher as it follows closely behind the passenger train on "fire patrol." A firefighter from the Apex FD keeps an eye on the br... (more)

After leaving the mountains behind, this local glides through a broad valley a few miles east of Old Fort.

Quite a few picnic goers, railfans, and tourists enjoy a beautiful fall day at Andrew's Geyser as a local descends the Loops.

A very unusual perspective of the Loops: as if looking up from the bowels of the earth, we see a local dropping down the Loops through one of many hairpin turns, flanges squealing, dynamics howlin... (more)

Old Glory and a gloriously colorful tree watch over a Piedmont Division local.

A short local consisting of about 25 empty chip hoppers descends through the Mill Creek Valley.

Train 135 has made it to the second tier of the Loops about 100 feet above the valley it just left. To get a feel for the loops, click Railroad: Norfolk Southern
Locomotive: EMD SD70M
Location: North Carolina, USA
Locomotive #: NS 2589
Train ID: NS 135
Photo Date: November 03, 2007

Mounting an assault on the Southern Loops beneath some nice folliage.