Folkston Funnel Trip Continued
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Folkston, GA
CSX Mixed Freight Q441
North Bound Silver Meteor Amtrak 98
CSX Mixed Freight Q603-10 Read more...
Folkston Funnel Trip
Folkston, GA
A Railfan on the other side of the tracks and Q174.
Waycross power bounce CSX X093-11
South Bound Silver Star Amtrak 91
NCDOT inaugurates third Raleigh to Charlotte train
Saturday, June 5, 2010
The Raleigh to Charlotte train count rises once more today with the inauguration of a third train. Piedmont trains number 73 and 76 along with Carolinian trains number 79 and 80 will be joined by Piedmont trains 75 and 74. Train 75 will leave Raleigh, NC at 11:50AM westbound/southbound for Charlotte while Train 74 will leave Charlotte, NC northbound/eastbound at 12:30PM. "It's a great step forward for our program," said Pat Simmons, the state Department of Transportation's Rail Division director. "In order for passenger trains to substitute for the convenience and mobility of the personal automobile, we need to have more frequent, more reliable service with reduced travel times."
Christening of the locomotive.
Amtrak 75 Departs Raleigh, NC at 11:50AM on it's first ever run.
State Department of Transportation estimates the service will attract 43,000 new riders in its first year. So far, Amtrak ridership has been up 25 percent in the past two years. More than half of riders on intercity trains traveled between Raleigh and Charlotte.
"The launch of these two additional trains demonstrates the strong partnership between Amtrak and the state to provide more passenger rail transportation alternatives for the residents of North Carolina," Amtrak President and CEO Joseph Boardman said. Full-priced, adult, round-trip tickets cost about $50 and are discounted 40 percent throughout June. The trip takes a little over three hours and includes stops in Cary, Durham, Burlington, Greensboro, High Point, Salisbury and Kannapolis.
A couple of trains around Salisbury, NC
Friday, June 4, 2010
NS 154 
NS 753 (Belmont Coal Train)
NS 135 taking the S-Line
NS 213 heading Southbound
Two trains in the evening on 6/3/10
Amtrak 79 at Fetner (sorry for blurry shot)...
Moving locations just in time for a long 349
A reflection of an old SOu box car...
A Family has a close call with 63N
Sunday, May 30, 2010
I set out on Saturday hoping to catch the two eastbounds I tracked on the ATCS...
NS 350 heads east
After he cleared a family began to walk on the tracks and remained on the tracks taking pictures of their 2 toddlers while the signal shows another eastbound...
NS 63N started to bear down on them, I was shouting for them to get off the tracks...
Just imagine how it could have ended if the train was a westbound coming around the blind curve.
2 Trains on Sunday
Monday, May 24, 2010
NS 351 under Cary Pwk on 5/16/2010
NS 44W at the S162.8 on 5/23/10
2 at Salisbury and Amtrak 80 at Cary
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Railfans look at NS 154 
NS 135 climbs through 
Amtrak 80 at Fetner
A Couple Hours in Selma, NC
Friday, April 2, 2010
On Monday March 29th, 2010 I spent a couple of hours in Selma, NC.
CSX mixed freight Q400-29 heads north to Cumberland, MD from Hamlet, NC.
CSX rock train F017-29 heads south with dual GP38-2s
NS Mixed freight 349 swaps crews at Pine level under the I-95 overpass
NS Loaded Coal train 76W bound for the CP&L in Goldsboro heads east
The two S-Line Locals
Sunday, March 28, 2010
On March 13th I caught the 2 CSX locals that operate on CSX's Aberdeen Sub.
CSX F941-13's freight headed towards Hamlet, NC
CSX F742-13's power follows 20 minutes behind also headed south to Hamlet, NC.
Two trains at Rocky Mount, NC
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Photos from an old trip up to Rocky Mount, NC in the summer of 2009.
Amtrak 80 makes a stop at the station.
CSX Q401-23 bound for Hamlet.
More from the Durham Southern Local
Sunday, March 21, 2010
CSX F729-10 at the Durham & Southern Jct in Apex, NC
I'm Back!
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Well you probably think I forgot about this blog or I'm going to railfan when it gets warmer. But It's just the opposite I was actually too Busy Railfanning!
CSX F729-02 with 3 day old snow on the ground at Apex, NC.
Hamlet Trip 1-6-10
Saturday, January 9, 2010
I made a trip down to Hamlet, NC on the day just before snow was expected to fall.
CSX F701 @ Hamlet, NC
F701's Power @ Locomotive facility.
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