Gold Line At Blue Hour. The sky was cloudless and bright as the sun set on July 25, 2015 in Charlotte, North Carolina while Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) 91 (Gomaco, 2004) was sittin... (more)

CSXT 8589 was built by EMD in 1984 as Baltimore & Ohio (BO) 8589, to CSXT 8589. CSX later derated the locomotive to 3,000 horsepwer and specified it a SD50-2.

Before Charlotte built their light rail line from Pineville to downtown, they ran trolley cars on a short section of former Southern Railway single track line. This shot taken in February 2005 sho... (more)

Southbound trolley car on the light rail line in 2009.

Street cars ran in uptown Charlotte until 1938 when they were replaced by a bus system. Nearly 80 years later, city leaders opened a new streetcar line that ran mostly along Elizabeth Avenue and c... (more)

On May 23, 2019, CATS trolley car 92 has just turned off of Hawthorne Road onto Elizabeth Avenue in Charlotte, North Carolina on the streetcar line. Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center is in... (more)

On September 14, 2011, a south bound Charlotte Area Transportation System train is near the Bland Street Station enroute to Pineville. It is powered by Siemens S70 LRV #106. A few notable landmark... (more)

A Siemens S70 LRV that has been operating on the then new Charlotte Blue Line leaves southbound out of downtown Charlotte.

Two Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) light rail trains meet at the end of the line in Pineville, North Carolina on a weekend in 2012. The weekend schedule has one train sitting here waiting on... (more)

South bound light rail train in Charlotte, NC leaves Bland Street Station in a sgt frm 2011.

CATS trolley runs down Elizabeth Street on the streetcar line in 2016. Newer nd more modern streeetcars now run on this line and the trolleys have been sold to Memphis,

That's How I Got To Memphis. The Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) was to some extent predetermined to see its own demise. The three Gomaco built Birney Streetcar replicas have been vers... (more)

That's How I Got To Memphis. The Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) was to some extent predetermined to see its own demise. The three Gomaco built Birney Streetcar replicas have been vers... (more)

The CATS are out! The Wizards-Hornets game is over, with the Hornets pulling out a win in OT, and fans are ready to return home for Thanksgiving. As taxis and probably Uber drivers pick up... (more)