Carolina Coastal train 120 switches the NS side of the yard in Chocowinity. Carolina Coastal operates the NSRy main west and north of the wye that is mostly obscured by the old water tower. Norf... (more)

Carolina Coastal train 120 is off to their usual early start, hitting Walstonburg at 0649, moments after sunrise of 0647. The two GP15-1s with the Norfolk Southern Railway inspired scheme look ri... (more)

Carolina Coastal train 120 has switched the NS portion of the Chocowinity Yard and shoves southward on the New Bern line to access the south leg of the wye and make the turn westward toward their ... (more)

Carolina Coastal's newest power was revealed back in October with a lot of fanfare. Regional Rail announced that they'd be buying several ex Union Pacific GP15-1s for a few of their properties. Th... (more)

Carolina Coastal train 120 blasts off from Hexacomb on a warm Monday afternoon with a pair of ex Grand Trunk GP9R's in command.

With the fall colors just starting to come in across Eastern North Carolina, CLNA 120 rolls north on the CLNA Wilson Sub behind a pair of CLNA's brightly colored GP9R's.

A trio of Carolina Coastal's GP9R's lead the Wilson to Chocowinity turn (Train #120) into Chocowinity on a warm summer morning. Matched sets of power on shortlines can often be hard to come by, e... (more)

CLNA train #120 arrives in Chocowinity after making the morning run from Wilson with nearly 100 cars. A quartet of former Grand Trunk GP9R's are in charge of the run this morning.

The sun has just risen over the cornfields of eastern North Carolina has CLNA train #120 arrives into Chocowinity and the NS interchange.

In the late October evening light, CLNA #23 returns the westbound train from Chocowinity.

CLNA train #120 (Wilson-Chocowinity) passes through the small hamlet of Simpson, NC.

Westbound on the old Norfolk Southern.

GTW country? Hardly. It's not often that the 'Coastal uses 3 units east of Wilson, and it's even rarer that they will match - if you can call these old bandits matching. So when the westbound Wils... (more)

Other than a little chit chat in front of the local filling station, all is quiet as the 'Coastal's Wilson switcher blasts through downtown Walstonburg.

After dropping off one car for the Southern States elevator, the CLNA Wilson to Chocowinity turn gets under way with 17 cars. Crews from a work train would soon resume trying to rerail one of the ... (more)