Tracking

East

index

February 8 - Smithsonian

American History Museum

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February 4 - Point of Rocks

a classic rail station in western Maryland

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February 1 - Week 52 Trains

December 23-29 in Maryland and DC

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January 25 - Week 51 Trains

December 16-22 in Chocowinity

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January 23 - Week 50 Trains

December 9-15 in Wilson & Chocowinity

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January 22 - CLNA Yard

Poking around the Carolina Coastal yard

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January 18 - Week 49 Trains

December 2-8 around Beaufort County

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January 4 - New ties for Marsden

railroad track work in Chocowinity

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January 3 - West Virginia antique trains

Durbin, Elkins, Belington, Philippe WV

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December 31 - Week 48 Trains

November 25-December 1 NC trains

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December 28 - Week 47 Trains

November 18-24

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December 28 - Washington’s decorative caboose

Seaboard gray before it was disguised in Southern orange (1986)

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December 23 - ACL milepost

Wharton Station (1995)

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December 20 - Seaboard station

Suffolk VA (1995)

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December 20 - Trains Week 46

November 11-17

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December 20 - Southern paint

Norfolk Southern GP59 in Southern Railroad green (1995)

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December 12 - CLNA 265 crossing Cuckolds Creek

Belhaven 1989

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December 9 - New crossing signal

Washington NC 1990

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December 9 - Norfolk Southern GP38-2

Washington NC 1990

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December 6 - Short line trains

Chocowinity & Washington November 4-10

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December 5 - Man-powered track work

Belhaven (1989)

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November 26 - Class-One Trains

Choco & Greenville November 4-10

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November 26 - Loading grain hopper

grain bins in Belhaven (1989)

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November 24 - MOW truck

bread truck reincarnate

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November 24 - Chasing 265

I follow a freight from Pinetown to Belhaven and back again

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November 18 - Caboose and conductor

Pamlico trestle (1990)

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November 18 - Week 45 Trains

Chocowinity and Selma freights

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November 16 - Ex-SOU GP38

train crossing Pamlico River (1989)

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November 13 - Oncoming light

Pamlico River rail trestle (1990)

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November 11 - 44-tonner

another angle Carolina Coastal switcher (1989)

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November 6 - Little switcher

Carolina Coastal’s 44Tonner (1989)

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November 2 - Old Trains

another new gallery of old Ric Carter photos

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October 31 - Week 42 Trains

October 7-21

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October 25 - More shop photos

Carolina Coastal’s Wilson shop

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October 25 - Week 41 Trains

October 6-13

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October 22 - Week 40 Trains

September 30-October 6

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October 17 - Week 39 Trains

September 23-29

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October 13 - Union Station

Raleigh’s new passenger rail station

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October 10 - Week 38 Trains

an unusual run by Norfolk Southern

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October 6 - Week 36 Trains

September 2-8

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October 5 - Carolina Coastal Railway Yard

a look at the Wilson shop

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September 30 - Week 35 Trains

August 26-September 1

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September 25 - Week 34 Trains

Chocowinity August 19-25

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September 20 - Week 33 Trains

foreign power in Choco

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September 10 - Week 32 trains

Just around Chocowinity’s Marsden Yard

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August 26 - Sonic Bonnet

a large, modern locomotive passing through 

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August 21 - Another Choco Variety Show

KCS leads the parade 

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August 16 - Choco Variety Show

lots of colors in the yard 

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August 11 - A bygone day and station

Raleigh’s old, now gone, rail passenger station

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August 10 - NW scale test car

an old waits at Porter waiting for Marsden Yard

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August 9 - Seaboard Trestle

old Raleigh rail overpass

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August 5 - Yard Repair

a dry-docked trawler in Wanchese

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August 5 - City of Raleigh

NCDOT 1792

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August 3 - Capital City people pusher

2009 Amtrak

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July 31 - Carolina Coastal GP16

1721 visits Choco back in 2009

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July 28 - Passing freight

E53 gives way for F727

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July 27 - Gator Southern-style

E349 LHF toward Linwood

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July 25 - Catching up on paperwork

Amtrak dining car

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July 23 - Luke Cage conductor?

Amtrak in Raleigh

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July 20 - NS 4000 and 8000

Marsden gathering

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July 17 - Trains from Week 24

Chocowinity, Selma, Raleigh

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July 14 - Sonic Bonnet

Norfolk Southern Locomotive 4000 in Choco

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July 12 - Sullivan Maintenance Yard

Amtrak’s MOW equipment in Odenton, MD

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July 10 - Selma trains

Week 23 trains around Selma NC

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July 3 - Train chasing around town

views from the tracks around Greenville and Chocowinity

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July 1 - Puttering around Maryland

trains from around Odenton and Annapolis Junction

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June 29 - Amtrak commuters

along the Northeast Corridor on Memorial Day

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June 28 - Rara Avis

a special SD60 in Chocowinity

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June 25 - 727 clear Marsden

CSX phosphate train through Chocowinity NC

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June 24 - Accident Rates

1926 newspaper clipping

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June 19 - Week 19 Trains

hanging in the swamp again

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May 29 - Blue Beluga

ET44AC demo unit leads E49 into Choco

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May 25 - Week 18 Trains

hanging in the swamp

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May 23 - CSX 727 flying low

passing through Choco

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May 22 - NS Passenger service

1925 WDN clipping

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May 19 - Feeding hoppers

Bailey Feeds in Selma, NC

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May 19 - Week 17 Trains

Choco action April 22-28

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May 15 - Carolina Coastal before and after

a trio of GP9s in their old and new plumage

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May 12 - Pamlico Crossing

Carolina Coastal 119 in Little Washington

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May 10 - Week 16 Trains

all Chocowinity and Washington

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May 7 - When the MOWing gets tough

Glenwood Yard 2016

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May 6 - E49 in Choco

SD70ACe leads the train Southern Style

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May 5 - Week 15 Trains

a varied week in Chocowinity

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May 1 - Week 14 trains

lots of Carolina Coastal and much more

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April 29 - GP9 long-hood-forward

Whootentown grain field

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April 24 - Amtrak Waiting

Rocky Mount last month

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April 23 - Pamlico River Trestle

Southern freight crossing river 1987

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April 21 - Week 13 Trains

Rocky Mount and Chocowinity

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April 21 - Southern crossing Pamlico

Little Washington 1987

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April 20 - Pennsy Heritage video

commemorative locomotive southbound in Wilmar

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April 20 - Pennsy Heritage

commemorative locomotive visits Choco

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April 19 - Ex-SOU GP30

riverside Norfolk Southern train in Little Washington

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April 18 - Week 12 Trains

Laurel MD, Chocowinity NC, Ahoskie NC

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April 16 - Old GP38 over Jacks Creek

Norfolk Southern in Washington in 1987

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April 14 - Extra train to Aurora today

CSX tanker train headed through Chocowinity

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April 14 - Old GPs in Rocky Mount

Carolina Coastal Railway stock

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April 12 - GORAIL Heritage Unit

E49 freak show in Marsden Yard today

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April 12 - GP9 headed home

Whootentown Road crossing

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April 10 - Week 11 Trains

Selma and Chocowinity

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April 9 - Crossing Guard

Dash-9 at crossing

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April 7 - Warbonnet in Selma

beater bonnet on NS 349

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April 5 - CSX Yard underpass

rainy night in Rocky Mount 2011

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April 4 - Phosphate train entering yard

CSX hits Marsden

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April 4 - NS Southbound last night

some foreign power adds color to freight

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April 3 - Crossing the Pamlico

Carolina Coastal on river trestle

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April 1 - Pictures-A-Week 10

mostly trains this week

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March 31 - Pit Stop

refueling a train in Rocky Mount

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March 28 - Phosphate Train

CSX making it nightly trip through Chocowinity

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March 27 - Boarding Amtrak

Raleigh night boarding in 2009

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March 27 - Crabber dock

North Creek boat, house and shedder shed in 2011

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March 26 - Trains of week 08

keeping simple with just Chocowinity and Washington this week

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March 24 - CSX freight

in Raleigh 2009

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March 23 - Staying and leaving

locomotives in Chocowinity today

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March 22 - Shuffling cars around the yard

building a Norfolk Southern train in Choco

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March 14 - Scotland Neck station

2012 photo of an old ACL station

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March 12 - Trains of week 07

from Chocowinity and Rocky Mount

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March 12 - GP9 in Plymouth

an old GTW locomotive in its old paint

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March 11 - Conrail Quality

a CSX freight through Boylan Wye

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March 9 - Shiny Golden Beaver

clean Canadian Pacific locomotive in Selma

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March 6 - Chasing 265

running alongside Carolina Coastal down east

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March 6 - Lady Conductor

a 2009 Amtrak Raleigh stop

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March 5 - Governors Hill

a Norfolk Southern GP40-2 overhead in 2009

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March 4 - Marsden Sunday color

all colorful locos in Choco today

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March 2 - Train Week 06

the variety of Chocowinity is surprising

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March 1 - Closed pedestrian tunnel

abandoned in Elkridge, MD

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February 27 - GG-1

a lapel pin memento of a classic and the original

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February 25 - Train Week 05

pics from Maryland to Selma to Choco

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February 25 - CN guest in Chocowinity

Norfolk Southern hosts another visitor in Marsden

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February 22 - Trestle Tender

Carolina Coastal’s bridge tender heads of to be an engineer

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February 21 - Marsden Conrail

an SD60I before getting its NS colors

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February 20 - Carolinian Conductor

a southbound Amtrak ride, 2010

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February 18 - More HX Tower

There are now six images of Halethorpe’s HX Tower

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February 17 - Carolina Coastal

returning over Cuckolds Creek trestle

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February 16 - Crossing gate on pickup

a little late to clear intersection at train crossing

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February 13 - Week 04 Trains

a large gallery of train pics from 2018’s 4th week

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February 12 - Durham & Southern Bridge

bridge name holdover in Apex

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February 11 - Unloading ballast

acrobatic excavator

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February 9 - Amtrak on the fly

non-stop commuter train powers through Halethorpe, MD

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February 8 - CLNA late day

Norfolk Southern action delayed Carolina Coastal

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February 7 - Marsden Monster

a 6-unit lash-up for Norfolk Southern

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February 5 - HX Tower

an abandoned B&O rail control tower in Maryland

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February 3 - SD-40 in Marsden

E49 waits while E52 finishes day

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February 2 - MARC commuter

departing Halethorpe, MD

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February 2 - Passing MARC

commuter train passes through Elkridge, MD

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February 1 - Dash 8 beater unit

a rust bucket loco in Selma

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January 30 - Ahoskie train depot

three NCVA locomotives on a rainy evening

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January 29 - Glenwood Yard on a quiet Friday

just passing by

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January 28 - Ex-SOU High Hood in Selma

three antiques pointed east

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January 25 - Norfolk Southern Thursday moves

some stay and some leave

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January 24 - Today’s E49

this afternoon’s arrival from Selma was again interesting

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January 24 - Enfield tower

the town’s old railroad tower taken in 1997

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January 23 - Kansas City Southern

another colorful pull into Chocowinity

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January 22 - Colorful freight

an afternoon freight here turn out colorful for a change

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January 22 - Track maintenance in rough weather

a rainy day approaching Jones Street in Raleigh 2011

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January 21 - High hoods in Raleigh

two old EMDs from 2012

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January 19 - Ellicott’s Mills Station

America’s oldest passenger rail station

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January 16 - Norfolk Southern E52

phosphate train arriving in Chocowinity

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January 14 - Belhaven Holiday Toy Trains

a fun show of toy trains in City Hall

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January 12 - DOD train in Selma, NC

A train of mostly LAV was sitting in Selma today

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January 10 - Four Oaks signal tower

a 2002 railroad memory

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January 9 - Mississippi Export loco on CLNA 119

a 2010 fright train in Chocowinity

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January 7 - Water Tower & Watermelon

a family mystery photo

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January 4 - Night Train

a dozen photos of Norfolk Southern building a train in the dark