1800 led a westbound train of storage flats to be placed in the passing siding at Old Fort. All of the cars would not fit so they continued west up the loops with the remaining cars for Asheville... (more)

The Charlotte and Western has traded cars with CSX in Mt. Holly and heads west across the South Fork River on the way back to the transload facility in Gastonia.

Linwood-Columbia manifest 15R rolls southward by the Blackstock Fish Camp, apparently a local favorite with such a crowd early on Saturday evening.

The New York Central heritage unit leads R653, the Charlotte Sub re-symbol of C406, on the former SAL line at Iron Station.

Florida Central's newly painted units in the SCL-inspired scheme await duty at Bartow.

Russell, KY to Waycross, GA manifest M693 is approaching Spartanburg and the end of this crew's journey down the Blue Ridge Sub. The train is crossing the Pacolet River, with Lake Blalock in the ... (more)

Charlotte-Kings Mountain local P43 passes the Southern-era intermediates at Bessemer City. The train worked an industry just north of the prior signal and crept the few miles at restricted speed ... (more)

The last run of the day for the Arcade and Attica Christmas Train returns to Arcade on Black Friday.

The Illinois Terminal heritage unit leads Jacksonville - Charlotte train 282 under the intermediates at Lowell as the train approaches its terminus.

The weekly run from Meadville, PA to Jamestown, NY started the day at Corry and dumped ballast for a while. Here they get up to speed just east of East Columbus.

The Salamanca-Machias-West Valley local switches at Ashford Junction to get the empty hoppers right to go to Machias. I dropped the SIRI and headed this way just in time to beat the train to this... (more)

Getting underway eastbound from Goshen.

Westbound empty hopper train E120-04 is taking the James River Sub westward instead of it's normal journey over the Buckingham Branch. This one clocked in at 932 axles on the defect detector.

Buckingham Branch GP40's lead the afternoon excursion westward toward Goshen.

611 gets underway out of the siding at Goshen.