as i said in an earlier post-i’m new to this hobby.i just spent 3 1/2 hours at the lhs! everyone seems to have a trainline they like alot.i’ve seen norfolk southern trains in greensboro,where i grew up.i decided not to do with a set,but buy the pieces i like,if i need to one by one.the thing is,i would like to go with something that runs through north carolina.so,as the title states-what trains run through north carolina?i’m in wilmington now,so anything will help! thanks!-adam hoyt
Csx Ns southern did along with Seabord, Atlantic Coast Line and Amtrak runs through am i missing any???
a after though you are in Wilmington right there is a Mr musem acrsoos the river from the USS North Carolina go see it there are 2 layouts a baldwin loco, cabbose and Box car
I’m in Hickory, NC, and the other day I saw a train consisting of BNSF, UP and NS engines pulling mostly Southern cars. Personally, I model/collect both Southern and Norfolk Southern.
Thats the other thing. Locomotives are frequently put in power pools where they visit other railroads, so technically you could have any locos in NC, with perhaps either CSX or NS as your main carrier.
Norfolk Southern and to a smaller extent, CSX, are the dominant railroads on the eastern seaboard. As trainfreek92 pointed out, there are a multitude of other road names running the NS rails. I’ve seen pretty near every road name you can think of running through Norfolk, VA on both NS and CSX trackage. CSX has a tendency (not being in the top 1% of the fortune 500) to have a wider variety of equipment being pulled due to financial reasons. Railroad can and do lease equipment out, which explains why a train can be pulled by engines from 3 different lines
To model road name variety correctly (if that is your thing) I would have at least one CSX engine as the head of a single header or MU, then whatever roadname you desire in tow, and 50% or more of the train can be other road names. A NS train almost never (by “almost never” I mean that it can and does happen, just not enough to be convincing in model form) has another road’s engine as part of a multiple lash up, and maybe 5-10% non NS cars in the train.
Hope this helps
bet they have a few military
thanks alot for the input.i’ve actually found a club that i’m gonna go to soon,so they will be able to help me also.
I live in the Piedmont section of NC, between Durham and Burlington. The NS runs through my town (Mebane) and in Greensboro. Most motive power is NS but I have seen UP engines and an occasional old “Conrail” engine lashed up to a train, along with NS units. Mixed freights are often seen and two passenger trains run through the area–the “NC Railroad” Piedmont (Raleigh to Charlotte/ Charlotte to Raleigh) and the Carolinian (Charlotte to New York).
Are you looking at what trains run thru NC, are currently are operating in NC? Being here in wilmington myself there are another one here beside the CSX, and that is the Wilmington terminal rr, which services the port area. There is also a couple of smaller railroads that are with in about a 2 hr drive from wilmington also. One is the PeeDee river, also the Aberdeen & rockfish. Would love to chat with you since you are in wilmingotn. email me at: jpischek@ec.rr.com, Good hunting!
I just did a road trip from north Va. through N.C.,S.C.,GA., ALA.,Miss,LA,and texas. Frome texas I went up to St. Louis then from there back to Va. through Ind,Ill, Ky., and West Va.
I have seen csx in dallas tx and bnsf here in Va. I have only seen Norfolk southern localy but Im sure you can run it in N.C. Along with norfolk southern
I’ve seen NS in great abundance in PA, WV, NJ, DE, NC, SC, NY and even an odd unit or two out in Kansas City and Reno, NV. Likewise I can sit at any given track here in Norfolk and see at least one UP, three or four BNSF, and half a dozen Conrail units inside of an hour. Remember that railroads make money by moving a commodity from point A to point B, so if there is money to be made, a smart RR is there doing it. There are also an abundance of smaller roads, like the Eastern Shore RR, that run every which way on everybody’s rails. Incidently, it’s these smaller, lesser known RR’s that allow us as modelers to come up with fictional haulers that “connect” with the big lines.
It would be a great idea to email those who live in your area and contact that club, that is where you will get your best info.