Bryan Clingerman:
The fog is thick as NS P43 with 6417 crawls into Lowell, NC on its hands and knees pulling the 20 car long train up one of the steepest grades on the mainline between Washington and Atlanta.
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NS 8098, the Conrail heritage unit leads 28R through Lowell, NC, under the 1965 Southern Railway intermediates.
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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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NS P09 ducks under the 1965 Southern Railway Intermediates on its way 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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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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New year! New paint! NS 154 thunders north through Lowell, NC, behind UP #6496 freshly painted into the new lettered scheme.
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UP #8531 leads 154 into the town of Lowell, NC, on the last stretch of the trains nearly 500 mile journey from Irondale, AL to Linwood, NC.
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NS 240 heads north through Lowell, NC on a cold winter night. In the lead is BNSF #5441, one of the few "Frankenstein" locomotives.
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With a quartet of EMD motors, NS P09 screams north into the town of Lowell, NC heading back to Charlotte, NC from Hayne yard in Spartanburg, SC.
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NS 154 notches up through Lowell, NC with a UP duo leading the nearly 13,000ft train north.
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With a quintet of EMD motors, NS M54 howls into downtown Lowell on a quiet summer night.
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UP 3037 leads NS 212 north under the intermediates in Lowell, NC
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One of ACWR's newest passenger cars brings up the rear on NS 222 in Lowell, NC.
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After a quick station stop in Gastonia, Amtrak 20 cuts north knocking down its high green in Lowell.
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NS 936 loaded rail train lead by a veteran Dash-9 ducks under Lowell heading south.
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A duo of UP motors bring up the rear of 154 pushing over the crest in Lowell, NC.
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NS 222 thunders north through Lowell, NC with a BNSF SD70ACe on point.
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Kansas City Southern #4593 leads NS 154 under the 1965 Southern Railway intermediates in Lowell, NC.
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NS 203 ducking under the Southern intermediates in Lowell, NC with the Savannah & Atlanta heritage unit on point.
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NS 90Z rounds the cruve through Lowell, NC with 45 empty Herzog ballest cars heading north.
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Framed up with the Southern intermediates, NS 154 thunders north through Lowell, NC with a SD70ACU on point. The SD70ACU have became quite rare with NS selling more and more to PRLX recently.
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With the setting sun painting a picture in the sky, NS 952 (Office Car Special) ducks under the Southern intermediates in Lowell, NC
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Amtrak 19 ducking under the Southern intermediates heading south through Lowell, NC with Amtrak #160 (phase III) leading the way.
Bryan Clingerman:
As the sun begins to duck under the horizon, NS 153 crawls up the grade into Lowell, NC ducking under the Southern Railway intermediates.
Bryan Clingerman:
Amtrak 19 the Crescent breaks the silence in Lowell, NC with Amtrak 145 in the phase 3 scheme.
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NS 153 screaming up the grade into Lowell, NC after having stalled on the garde about a mile south from here. They finally got moving with the help of some manned pushers from Charlotte to get them up the grade.
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NS 265 thundering south through Lowell, NC
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NS 222 flys under the intermediates in Lowell with a rare GP60 leading the way through a monster of a thunder storm
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A very fresh AC44C6M flys north ducking under the Lowell intermediates leading NS 204.
