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Lowell, North Carolina 28098

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NS 6309 leads P09 over I85 in Lowell, NC, en route to Hayne Yard in Spartanburg, SC.

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.

After meeting P09, NS 043 (Safety Train) throttles up under the Southern intermediates in Lowell, NC, passing engine 17 from Lowell Fire Department.

KCSM #4555 leads NS 265 glides over I-85 in Lowell, NC, starting its long journey to Memphis, TN.

Climbing into Lowell

Southern Railway Signals

Stormy Night in Lowell

Union Pacific AC44 #6788 leads NS 154 north over the busy I-85 in Lowell, NC.

New year! New paint! NS 154 thunders north through Lowell, NC, behind UP #6496 freshly painted into the new lettered scheme.

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.

NS 240 heads north through Lowell, NC on a cold winter night. In the lead is BNSF #5441, one of the few "Frankenstein" locomotives.

After working the transflo in Lowell, NC, the Charlotte & Western rolls across the South Fork River.

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.

Norfolk Southern Under the Signals

Southern Ry. Signal Bridge

24X under Southern Authority

NS 154 notches up through Lowell, NC with a UP duo leading the nearly 13,000ft train north.

NS 3644 Under Southern Signals

NS 153 screams up the grade into Lowell, NC with 11,000ft on the drawbar with a BNSF H1 leader.

UP 3037 leads NS 212 north under the intermediates in Lowell, NC

One of ACWR's newest passenger cars brings up the rear on NS 222 in Lowell, NC.

Belmont Coal at Lowell

A duo of UP motors bring up the rear of 154 pushing over the crest in Lowell, NC.

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