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NS P87 rounds the cruve to Swannanoa on its return to Asheville yard with one of the last loads of chips for the Evergreen paper mill in Canton, NC.
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NS P87 throttles up I preparation to negotiate the Old Fort loops. Just a few minutes later, the train would glide through Moore's cut and round the cruve at high fill seen on the left.
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With loads of woodchips for Canton, NS P87 cuts through Jarrett's tunnel on its way westbound up the loops.
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NS P60 makes its way down the Old Fort loops passing Bruner's Cut bound for Oyama yard in Hickory, NC.
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In the golden light of the morning sun, a veteran dash 9 leads P87 eastbound here rounding the curve at High Fill, getting ready to enter Moores cut.
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NS GP38-2 #5642 (Training First Responders) sits at the shops in Asheville, NC.
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Norfolk Southern Safety train tied down in Asheville yard preparing to train first responders around the area. Just out of frame to the right is where the old roundhouse sat till being torn down.
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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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NS 936 emerges from the western portal of Swannanoa Tunnel. Here, the train has completed its assault on the Old Fort loops, which for this train wasn't an issue at all with just 12 cars of Maintenance of Way equipment in tow.
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NS #9604 leads a short NS 936 (work train) west on the S-line towards Asheville, NC, seen here thundering their way up the Old Fort loops at High Fill.
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After finishing up at the asphalt plant at Grovestone, NS P89 heads westbound here at Swannanoa, NC, back to Asheville yard.
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NS P60 rolls under one of the few Southern Railway cantilever signals here at Biltmore entering Asheville yard.
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NS P87 cuts through the town of Old Fort, NC before climbing the loops.
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NS P87 climbs the loops. We see him here coming out of Jarretts tunnel.
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NS P87 with some surprising power. After stalling on the mountain, two four axle units come to the rescue to take P87 up and over the mountain and to Asheville, NC. The train is seen here at high fill as they start to climb the loops again.
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NS P89 squeezing through the rock cut at high fill on the Old Fort loops as he descends the grade to rescue a stalled P87.
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NS P87 heading back from Bridgewater with 14 loaded woodchip cars for BLU. This is just outside of Old Fort, NC
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NS 5173 has he sits at Barber Junction in Barber, NC
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NS P37 near Statesville, NC
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NS P37 leaving Barber, NC