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The quiet town of Augusta, GA, is interrupted by NS 955 (Office Car Special), arriving in town for the Masters Tournament. Leading the train is NS #8099 (Southern) and NS #1069 (Virginian), both freshly painted and washed for the occasion.
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Five minutes past midnight, NS 240 rounds the cruve into Westminster, SC. Doing the honors is BNSF #713, sporting the older BNSF Warbonnet scheme.
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Southern Railway FP7a #6133 leads a dinner train north pass the speeder shack at Newell.
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N&W 6162 and L&N 7067 sit quiet at the north end of the wye at Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation in Ravenna, KY.
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A trio of MP15s throttle up as CSX Y222 works BIDS in Charlotte, NC.
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NS 25A with the Lehigh Valley heritage unit leading the way south over the busy Interstate I-85 in Lowell, NC.
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The Norfolk Southern heritage unit leads NS 25A south ducking under the 1965 Southern Railway intermediate signals on Lowell, NC.
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The sunrise erupts in a sea of pink and purple as Amtrak 20 blasts north through Lowell, NC.
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A veteran CSX SD40-2 leads W021 south through the quiet Stanley, NC.
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The first GP38-2 ordered by Southern Railway, Southern #5000 leads the dinner train across the South Chickamauga Creek in Chattanooga, TN.
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CSX #1982 Seaboard System Heritage unit leads I037 over the 1929 built Seaboard bridge in Charlotte, NC.
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A freshly painted Ferromex SD70ACe hitches a ride on NS 25A crossing over I-85 in Lowell, NC.
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KCSM #4527 shoves on the rear of NS P86 across the 1924 built Southern Railway bridge in east Spartanburg, SC.
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NS 265 is just 5 miles into its journey towards Memphis, TN seen here crossing over the South Fork River in Cramerton, NC.
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NS 6309 leads P09 over I85 in Lowell, NC, en route to Hayne Yard in Spartanburg, SC.
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Norfolk Southern 25A hammers up the around 4 mile hill to Lowell, NC. UP #4361 guides the train under the 1965 Southern Railway intermediates still standing.
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Amtrak 79 thunders south through Landis, NC, past the town clock. In the lead is Amtrak 164, the new phase IV heritage unit.
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Another one from the Spencer fireworks. The NS safety train sits by the Bob Jillian roundhouse.
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Happy Independence Day!
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The Norfolk Southern Safety train poses by Barber JCT at the NC Transportation Museum after the annual Firetruck Festival.
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After meeting P09, NS 043 (Safety Train) throttles up under the Southern intermediates in Lowell, NC, passing engine 17 from Lowell Fire Department.
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NS 25A heads south over I-85 in Lowell, NC
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NS 956 (Training First Responders train) thunders north of the Saluda River in Parker, SC.
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Illinois Central GP40R #3107 sits tied down in Yazoo City, MS, after working CF industries.
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A veteran SD50 leads M693 south, splitting the Clinchfield intermediates at Big John's in Ashford, NC.
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Two KCS GP40-2LW's sit quiet in downtown Meridian just one week away from the big merger of KCS and CP.
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With the distant sound of a southbound negotiating the loops, M692 thunders past the Clinchfield era milepost #210 with the CSX #4568 Operation Lifesaver Unit taking it north up the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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A veteran C44-9W leads P87 east under the Southern GRS Cantilever at Biltmore in Asheville, NC.
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Ascending the mountain
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Still sporting the Santa Fe Warbonnet paint scheme, BNSF 691 leads NS 265 south over the rushing Frey Creek near Spartanburg, SC.
