Carolina Coastal GP16 #1721, still in it's old Aberdeen Carolina & Western paint, shoves a large cut of coal hoppers towards the shut down ALCOA Plant in Badin,N.C. where they will be placed into ... (more)

Waters of the Pamlico River lap against the shore, sea gulls screech in the air, the smell of loaded wood chip hoppers is carried along by the breeze, and the old trestle across the river groans i... (more)

A pair of Geeps roll into the Chocowinity yard limits eastbound past an interesting collection of antique tractors.

It's apparent that NS is still responsible for maintaining this crossing on the legs of the wye that connects the NS Choco yard with the CLNA Choco yard. (Probably not a bad number to have in your... (more)

An overview of the Chocowinity Yard used jointly by NS & CLNA looking north as the CLNA Plymouth to Choco turn switches the south end with their former Mississippi Export Geep. This is all trackag... (more)

While most of their running is through the fields and forests of Eastern NC, there are a few locations - such as the crossing of the Pamlico River in Washington - that really put the "coast" in Ca... (more)

A line of full log cars makes their way out of the Chocowinity Yard and on towards Greenville, NC and points west.

A hodgepodge of GPs switches and moves cars in the joint Norfolk Southern/Carolina Coastal yard in Chocowinity, NC. The yellow GP40 will be taking the empties back to Pinetown, while the Red GP 9... (more)

CLNA 8311 spends the day siting quietly on the south leg of the wye at Pinetown at the start of the lightly used Bellhaven branch. This 17 mile branch is the original CLNA trackage from its start ... (more)

The CLNA 1721 pulls a cut of recently activated coal cars out of the ALCOA plant. The cars will be spotted on the WSSB connection track for pickup by the WSSB. Here they are heading through the ca... (more)

Heading westbound on the old-NS mainline from Chocowinity to Wilson in the evening, this GP9/35 pair is making good time with 20-some cars as they pass the old freight shed trackside in Simpson. W... (more)

Running LHF, CLNA 95 heads east across a tributary of the Pamlico River returning to Plymouth from Chocowinity with a cut of empty log cars headed for loading. "Old Yeller" is pretty hard to miss ... (more)

An interesting find in the woods near the Old Whitney boat ramp along the shores of Badin Lake: a cold CLNA 1721 rests at the derail at the end of her siding waiting for the rare chance to get fir... (more)

The "motley crew" waits in the Wilson yard on Easter afternoon to take a train of soybeans and empty sulfur tanks to Raleigh the next morning. The lashup includes a GP9R, GP35, and SD9, typical of... (more)

On a nice spring morning, an eastbound CLNA freight breaks the silence of the forest as it breaks into a clearing shortly after leaving Wilson bound for Chocowinity. The GP30/35 lashup in charge t... (more)