From one state agency (WSDOT) to another (NCDOT) WSDOT Cascades F59PHI 470 is leading NCDOT Piedmont train No. 74 at East Durham, NC. They also have one of the California Surfliner's F59PHI No. 46... (more)

Noticing a few roster shots on the site today, I thought I would take a chance in posting this shot. The beautifully restored 200,000th car out of the Pullman Standard Bessemer, Ala. plant. The NS... (more)

The sun is falling fast on the western horizon, and we are standing on the north end of the platform of the ex-ACL Rocky Mount, NC train station as we catch SB CSX F774 the Rocky Mount to Boykins,... (more)

SB NS E25 has stopped in the middle of Hillsboro St. clear of all street intersections, and clear of the CSX ex-ACL switch which is against them, while the conductor walks ahead to line the switch... (more)

The last time we left you we were following SB NS E25. They have just finish switching the massive Goodyear Tire factory, just north of Fayetteville, NC. Here we find E25 about to enter Hillsboro... (more)

On a hot and humid afternoon we catch SB CSX F711 meandering down scared rails where Seaboard Air Line's "Great Steel Fleet" used to polish these rails. But today we catch CSX's north lo... (more)

Heading for Spencer, SB NS 099 just off of the Hurt Connection running No. 2 main, is about to go to single track in another 1/2 mile at CP Green. Behind the N&W heritage engine is the Wabash E8 N... (more)

As the farmers are preparing their fields for this seasons crops, we catch SB NS E25 in Linden, NC running for it's next work at the Goodyear Tire factory in Fayetteville, NC.

Here we find SB NS E25 is running amongst the spring greens just south of Kipling, NC. The red really stands out against the greens as the NS 8114 is headed toward Fayetteville.

After setting out a loaded center beam at a local lumber company, we catch SB NS E25 rolling through the tiny community of Chalybeate Springs, NC. This tiny community along the original Norfolk So... (more)

Finally on home rails, NS heritage engine 8114 is rolling on rails that NS Baldwins in this beautiful paint scheme once rolled. It is 7:06 am and the sun has just barely broken the horizon as we c... (more)

Here we catch the NS heritage engine on NS 349 running long hood forward, as it crosses the CSX A-Line and the beautifully restored Selma, NC passenger station, which sees 4 Amtrak trains call on ... (more)

Not many times you will see a heritage engine on the head end running long hood forward. But here we catch WB NS 349 with the NS heritage engine 8114 leading, rolling over the hill and dale profil... (more)

With high school football just around the corner, the mascot of the Franklinton High School "Red Rams" watches, as rare for this train a CSX ex-NYSW B40-8 on the NB CSX F711 eases through town.

The second WB trip of the day with SOU 630 leading comes screaming by the 8 MP (Barringer Road) just east of the Jct. at Barber, NC. You have to give NS props for their 21st Century Steam Program,... (more)