Bryan Clingerman: Don't check the rule book for this signal. It's a special indication given to the 7:30 Polar Express to depart Barber at the North Carolina Transportation Museum beind the N&W #620.
Bryan Clingerman: NS 15R dashes across the Catawba River just south of Fort Mill, SC. Trailing 3rd is ex Amtrak F40 #307 owned by the NC Transportation Museum heading to get some restoration work done.
Bryan Clingerman: Southern Railway FP7a #6133 leads a dinner train north pass the speeder shack at Newell.
Bryan Clingerman: Norfolk Southern AS416 #1616, built by Baldwin in 1955, rests in the Bob Jillian roundhouse at NCTM.
Bryan Clingerman: Southern Railway GP30 #2601 sits on the hobby shop lead with a little freight consist.
Bryan Clingerman: A duo of J classes from different railroads get serviced at Spencer Shops before their next assignment.
Bryan Clingerman: Mr. Baker brings Norfolk Southern's Operation Awareness Response train south on therofare one at the North Carolina Transportation Museum.
Bryan Clingerman: Southern Railway #542 and Seaboard Air Line #544 sit quiet in the Bob Jillian roundhouse at Spencer, NC.
Bryan Clingerman: N&W #611 leads the Tennessean into Barber Junction at the NC Transportation Museum.
Bryan Clingerman: Southern E8A #6900 takes a spin on the 1924 built Bob Jillian Roundhouse at the North Carolina Transportation Museum.
Bryan Clingerman: Southern 2601 throttles up past the oil house with the 3 o'clock train in tow at the North Carolina Transportation Museum.
Bryan Clingerman: The Norfolk Southern Safety train heads south from Hatley down therofare #1, passing the N&W CPL "Duncan" at the North Carolina Transportation Museum.
Bryan Clingerman: Another one from the Spencer fireworks. The NS safety train sits by the Bob Jillian roundhouse.
Bryan Clingerman: Happy Independence Day!
Bryan Clingerman: The Norfolk Southern Safety train poses by Barber JCT at the NC Transportation Museum after the annual Firetruck Festival.
Bryan Clingerman: Norfolk & Western #620 shoves the museum train south on TF 1 at the NC Transportation Museum.
Bryan Clingerman: The Graham County Shay #1925 takes a spin on the turntable at the RPCA Conference at NC Transportation Museum. Here, the 1925 is flying the black flags in honor of the late Jim Wrinn.
Bryan Clingerman: Graham County Shay #1925 sits in the Bob Jillian roundhouse at the North Carolina Transportation Museum. The 1925 has been undergoing inspection for possible restoration.
Bryan Clingerman: Southern Serves The South! Southern 6900 and 6133 shove an NCTM dinner train north past one of several water towers on the north side of the property.
Bryan Clingerman: The view from the engineers seat of Southern FP7 #6133.
Bryan Clingerman: Southern #6900 and #6133 lead a dinner train south under the Southern Railway boxcar signals at the North Carolina Transportation Museum.
Bryan Clingerman: Southern FP7A #6133 shoves the 1pm museum train under the Southern signals at the NC Transportation Museum. The 6133 is flying black "GW" flags for the late George Walker of the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.
Bryan Clingerman: Southern #2601 leads a photo freight around the NC Transportation museum grounds.
Bryan Clingerman: Southern GP30 #2601 leads a photo freight pass the yard limit at Hatley on the north side of the NCTM property.
Bryan Clingerman: Amtrak #307 a EMD F40PH built in May of 1979 once pulling thousands of passengers across the United States now resides at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC
Bryan Clingerman: N&W 611 leads the Tennessean by the CPL at Duncan on a photo charter at the NC Transportation Museum
Bryan Clingerman: Atlantic Coast Line E3 #501 sitting at the NCTM.It was notable for being the sole EMC E3 survivor, though it was rebuilt into an E6 before delivery.
Bryan Clingerman: Atlantic & Yadkin #542 sits at the Southern Railways Spencer shops in Spencer, NC
Bryan Clingerman: N&W 611 at the NC Transportation museum pulling two N&W Cabooses.
Bryan Clingerman: Southern E8A siting outside the the Bob Jillian roundhouse. This engine once pulled the popular Crescent to and from Washington, DC to New Orleans, LA. (now operated by Amtrak)