The NCVA road train heads south into the late afternoon sun over four hours behind schedule after running over a derail during a switching move earlier in the day.
A now faded but ever-present reminder adorns the flanks of this RailAmerica geep on the NCVA.
A former CN geep, a long ways from home, accelerates across the fields of eastern NC.
An ugly leaser trailing an SD60M on the Rocky Mount to Boykins, VA turn.
Old EMD's cross the Tar River northbound with a Rocky Mount to Portsmouth freight in the early morning just before the clouds roll in.
Passing the abandoned storefronts at branchville.
A former CN unit makes for an interesting sight leading this colorful lashup of North Carolina-Virginia geeps through the shorn Carolina cornfields along Rte. 35.
Passing old homes on the way north.
A freight uses the former ACL to pass over the historic town of Weldon on the south approach to the Roanoke River viaduct. The station on the right once served the SAL, which went under the bridg... (more)
A long southbound freight from Richmond nears its destination Rocky Mount in the early morning.
734 storming up the grade at Helmstetter's Curve.
Two GEs momentarily break the silence of this typical eastern NC landscape...a swamp.
If only there had been a few more inches of rain... CSX's finest, an AC60, heads south with a Cumberland to Hamlet, NC freight.
A few last minute observers check out the power before getting back on board.
