CN reroute takes the AGS south of Chattanooga heading toward Birmingham.

Linwood to Oyama yard local P61 has finally crested the long grade out of the Yadkin River valley at Five Row, his veteran thoroughbreds making easy work of the short Sunday train.

After meeting NS 118 at Hurt connection, a relatively rare westbound on the “Virginian”, S11 blasts off from a dead stop with a long string of empty hoppers bound for Elmore, WV.

820 splits the intermediate signals at Long Island, VA. Heading eastbound to Lamberts Point in Norfolk.

Still hanging on….N&W CPL signals still stand guard on the Ex-Virginian Railway between Altavista, VA & Abilene, VA as they have since the early 1960’s. On the banks of the Staunton river the ... (more)

Crossing the Staunton River NS 778 takes the connection off the former Virginian Railway mainline onto the former N&W L line enroute to Hyco Power plant.

On CSX trackage rights an NS intermodal makes its way west across the picturesque Tennessee landscape.

HPT&D local switches the Lowes distribution facility outside of Lexington, NC.

HPT&D local arrives back into High Rock area passing the power from a loaded ethanol train which has been tied down at Healing Springs over the last few days.

Johnson Rail Service repowered Alco S2 slumbers between switching duties in the morning sunlight at OmniSource Kernersville.

A moonlit night over the CSX A line in eastern, NC. Still standing guard over the rails are the ACL searchlight signals which would soon fall victim to the winds of change.

A veteran GP38-2 is in charge of a loaded Ethanol train bound for Healing Springs, NC. The train is approaching the diamond with the Ex-SOU WF Line which at the time laid mostly dormant.

After a trip down the Blue Ridge mountains on Norfolk Southerns “S Line”, NS 166 awaits a signal at Church St onto the Ex-Southern main.

A trusty, dusty and a little rusty old high hood GP38-2 built for the Southern Railway, leads P23 back north after a day of switching duties in Mooresville.

In the bleak mid winter, two veteran EMD’s team up to pull NS train 350 northbound through the single track and up grade toward Thomasville, NC.