This portion of the giant CSX railroad system came from the Seaboard Air Line. We see the 42 mile stretch from Hamlet to Monroe in North Carolina.

Formerly Atlantic Coast Line, today the Spartanburg Sub is home to 12,000 ton coal trains that require pushers and now DPU locomotives to negotiate the hilly South Carolina Terrain.

This shortline began as a narrow gauge line in 1873 and is now a thriving, recently expanded, line with 100-car trains as well as charm.

This stretch of railroad is an important part of the former Southern Railway and now Norfolk Southern mainline. Watch the parade of high speed merchandise trains that traverse this vital North-South artery.

Follow the former N&W main between Oakvale, WV and Narrows, VA. See manifest, coal trains, and double stacks. The three year “Heartland Corridor Project”, that expanded clearances, was completed only a few days prior to this visit.

Oakdale, Tennessee is located on Norfolk Southern’s famous CNO&TP. This program covers a 25 mile segment in Tennessee that Oakdale – a crew change point and regarded as the Southern end of the infamous “Rathole”.

This is big time 21st Century Railroading at its best. Piedmont Piggyback is a collection of over 50 Norfolk Southern intermodal trains along the Main Line between Spartanburg to Spencer. These are NS’s hottest freights.

This important NS line is home to heavy 100 plus car manifest trains loaded with lumber and wood chips, scrap, chemicals, grain and coal. See the action along the line from Charlotte to Rock Hill in the Carolina’s.

Shot entirely Cramerton and Belmont in North Carolina, as the signals at CP ‘south Fork” are situated between the two old mill towns. Unusual terrain, two river crossings and a horseshoe curve make for great railfan opportunities.