Fall peak has arrived in western North Carolina as Great Smoky Mountains 2-8-0 #1702 heads west out of Bryson City with the railroad’s ever popular Nantahala Gorge Excursion.
It's just after 0400 as Sone Mountain's former C&O GP7 idles on a frigid January morning during a night watch. The 2 former Southern FP7's were kept in the shop while the 5896 was kept out and fre... (more)
The last Linwood-based 153 is about to enter Georgia with a pair of heritage units on the head end of the nearly 200 car train. With recent operating changes, 153 will now be based out of Greensbo... (more)
Endangered: All appears normal as two commonplace SD40-2s sit in front of the Gainesville depot. Times are changing though, as the company has announced the sale of a number of 4 and 6 axle... (more)
Cargill's newest Gainesville plant locomotive rests during a rare Georgia snow day. The bright locomotive contrasts dramatically among the untouched snow and Norfolk & Western boxcar rusting away ... (more)
NS 118 swings around the bend at Red Lane with a rare Georgia snow blanketing the main line. The state's first snow was short lived as it would be gone by the next day.
The 77th edition of the Santa Train crosses the famed Copper Creek viaduct in Clinchport, Virginia. Although much of the day featured downpours as the one seen here, the Christmas spirit was alive... (more)
Louisville & Nashville mikado No. 1593 emerges from the Missionary Ridge Tunnel with a steam powered Chickamauga Turn. The Southern's '01 received a few cosmetic changes to replicate a long extinc... (more)
Norfolk Southern's OCS, sans the typical quartet of F-units, swings around the curve near the MP-611 on a northbound inspection run. The train is lead by a recently cleaned Southern heritage unit,... (more)