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A Small Rain Shower Cannot Stop This Train
Title:  A Small Rain Shower Cannot Stop This Train
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/31/2004  Upload Date: 5/31/2004 10:41:49 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Jon Huemmer
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 9417(C41-8W)
Views:  1377   Comments: 0
Pulling Stacks in the Rain
Title:  Pulling Stacks in the Rain
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/31/2004  Upload Date: 5/31/2004 10:42:49 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Jon Huemmer
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 9566(C44-9W) NS 8450(C40-8W)
Views:  1752   Comments: 0
old conrail c39-8 still running down south
Title:  old conrail c39-8 still running down south
Description:  south bound train heads through nc
Photo Date:  4/20/2005  Upload Date: 5/2/2005 8:06:58 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  tim heckman
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8202(C39-8)
Views:  1265   Comments: 0
NS 154
Title:  NS 154
Description:  NS 154 with a UP SD70M leading a bunch of NS engines.
Photo Date:  2/25/2006  Upload Date: 2/26/2006 7:09:58 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  BJ Preddy
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 4278(SD70M)
Views:  1064   Comments: 0
Blue 337
Title:  Blue 337
Description:  NS 337 rounds the curve at the Centerview Rd grade crossing with SD50 power
Photo Date:  6/2/2006  Upload Date: 11/8/2006 8:15:21 AM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Danny Robie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 5415(SD50)
Views:  1140   Comments: 1
Amtrak #80 Sumner Siding
Title:  Amtrak #80 Sumner Siding
Description:  Amtrak #80 approaches the signal at Sumner Siding. Note the deer carcass beside the track.
Photo Date:  6/9/2006  Upload Date: 11/8/2006 10:20:57 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Danny RobVe
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 88(P42DC)
Views:  1042   Comments: 0
NS 337
Title:  NS 337
Description:  NS 337 thunders through China Grove as seven EMD's lead the way with the exhaust pouring out. High Hood GP38-2 #5060 is on the point of the hot southbound freight.
Photo Date:  7/7/2006  Upload Date: 7/7/2006 6:06:46 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Matthew Robie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 5060(GP38-2)
Views:  1152   Comments: 0
NS 173
Title:  NS 173
Description:  173 thunders through China Grove with four big GE's in charge.
Photo Date:  7/21/2006  Upload Date: 7/21/2006 4:27:36 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Matthew Robie
Categories:  Track
Locomotives:  NS 7563(ES40DC)
Views:  1191   Comments: 0
Existing signals
Title:  Existing signals
Description:  Work is being done at China Grove. An area has been graded and there are some new cables coming out of the ground below the bucket on that backhoe. The next signals north and south of China Grove are being replaced. Will these go too? Note the taller southbound signal, which was only installed a few years ago.
Photo Date:  9/17/2006  Upload Date: 9/17/2006 8:44:24 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Marcus Neubacher
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  609   Comments: 0
NS 213
Title:  NS 213
Description:  A beautiful October afternoon finds 213 scrcaming around the curve at China Grove after meeting 204 at Reid.
Photo Date:  10/28/2006  Upload Date: 10/28/2006 2:58:25 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Matthew Robie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 2674(SD70M-2)
Views:  1130   Comments: 0
NS 119
Title:  NS 119
Description:  An all-Blue 119 barrels into downtown China Grove. The C40-8W running second is an ex-LMS lease unit.
Photo Date:  1/12/2007  Upload Date: 1/12/2007 4:57:32 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Matthew Robie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 6800(SD60M) NS 8459(C40-8W)
Views:  1246   Comments: 0
Blue 119
Title:  Blue 119
Description:  119 has just dropped the signal at China Grove with a pair of Big Blues on the point
Photo Date:  1/12/2007  Upload Date: 2/23/2007 8:33:00 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Danny Robie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 6800(SD60M)
Views:  1175   Comments: 0
AMTK 74
Title:  AMTK 74
Description:  Amtrak 74 screams through China Grove on a cloudy evening as he nears the signal at Sumner Siding.
Photo Date:  3/30/2007  Upload Date: 3/30/2007 8:06:01 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Matthew Robie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RNCX 1792(GP40P-2)
Views:  1102   Comments: 0
NS 155 Sumner Siding
Title:  NS 155 Sumner Siding
Description:  An ex Big Blue leads NS 155 through the early evening light as it approaches Sumner Siding signal
Photo Date:  6/10/2007  Upload Date: 6/15/2007 11:04:02 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Danny Robie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8342(C40-8W)
Views:  1070   Comments: 0
NS 155
Title:  NS 155
Description:  The late evening manifest runs the single track headed into China Grove
Photo Date:  6/17/2007  Upload Date: 6/21/2007 6:59:08 AM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Danny Robie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 6643(SD60)
Views:  1074   Comments: 0
NS M72
Title:  NS M72
Description:  Going away shot of M72.*Pic taken with cell phone*.
Photo Date:  6/19/2007  Upload Date: 6/20/2007 9:42:07 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  BJ Preddy
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 4629(SD70M) FXE 4640(ES44AC) UP 4443(SD70M)
Views:  1523   Comments: 0
NS M72
Title:  NS M72
Description:  NS M72 with a UP SD70M, a Ferromex GEVO, and another UP SD70M.*Pic taken with cell phone*.
Photo Date:  6/19/2007  Upload Date: 6/20/2007 9:40:53 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  BJ Preddy
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 4629(SD70M) FXE 4640(ES44AC) UP 4443(SD70M)
Views:  1453   Comments: 0
NS 119
Title:  NS 119
Description:  119 rolls south through China Grove with a catfish and a GEVO.
Photo Date:  7/9/2007  Upload Date: 7/9/2007 2:01:23 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Matthew Robie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9378(C40-9W)
Views:  1003   Comments: 0
NS 212
Title:  NS 212
Description:  212 storms through China Grove with a pair of six-axle EMDs at the helm.
Photo Date:  7/18/2007  Upload Date: 7/18/2007 4:31:53 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Matthew Robie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 2573(SD70) NS 6630(SD60)
Views:  1048   Comments: 0
NS 750
Title:  NS 750
Description:  Southbound coal leans hard into the curve at the Centerview Rd. grade crossing
Photo Date:  7/29/2007  Upload Date: 7/29/2007 11:51:00 AM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Danny Robie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9808(C40-9W)
Views:  1129   Comments: 0
NS 924
Title:  NS 924
Description:  NS 924 patiently waits on the track department to place th new piece of concrete tie equipped track at the site of the new wheel impact detector being installed at China Grove.
Photo Date:  9/16/2007  Upload Date: 9/23/2007 9:16:25 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Marcus Neubacher
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 4628(GP59)
Views:  989   Comments: 1
Detector installation
Title:  Detector installation
Description:  MOW crews drag a prebuilt track section (on concrete ties) over to the mainline. NS in installing a wheel impact (?) detector here just south of MP 341.
Photo Date:  9/16/2007  Upload Date: 9/23/2007 9:17:08 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Marcus Neubacher
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  539   Comments: 3
NS 213
Title:  NS 213
Description:  213 rushes south on the single track on the north end of China Grove
Photo Date:  10/20/2007  Upload Date: 10/22/2007 9:33:16 AM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Danny Robie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 6625(SD60)
Views:  915   Comments: 0
NS 213 MP343
Title:  NS 213 MP343
Description:  NS 213 shatters the silence as it rushes Louth through town at milepost 343
Photo Date:  2/4/2008  Upload Date: 3/15/2008 5:59:04 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Danny Robie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 7519(ES40DC)
Views:  1086   Comments: 0
NS 337
Title:  NS 337
Description:  NS 337 chugs through China Grove on a beautiful afternoon with a nice suprise on the lead.
Photo Date:  3/9/2008  Upload Date: 3/22/2008 12:12:44 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Matthew Robie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1812(B40-8)
Views:  1002   Comments: 0
UP 7743 leads NS-212
Title:  UP 7743 leads NS-212
Description:  [NS Piedmont Division - Charlotte District - China Grove] A new UP GEVO leads 2 NS GE's on the single track through China Grove
Photo Date:  7/8/2008  Upload Date: 7/9/2008 12:42:57 AM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Jonathon Russell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 7743(ES44AC)
Views:  904   Comments: 0
HLCX 5947 leads NS-54A
Title:  HLCX 5947 leads NS-54A
Description:  Loaded Chester grain train 54A screams through China Grove with a trio of HLCX SD60's.
Photo Date:  10/10/2008  Upload Date: 10/15/2008 7:21:31 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Jonathon Russell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HLCX 5947(SD60)
Views:  1051   Comments: 0
HLCX 5947 leads NS-54A
Title:  HLCX 5947 leads NS-54A
Description:  Loaded Chester grain train 54A screams through China Grove with a trio of HLCX SD60's.
Photo Date:  10/10/2008  Upload Date: 10/15/2008 7:20:25 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Jonathon Russell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HLCX 5947(SD60)
Views:  981   Comments: 0
HLCX 5947 leads NS-54A
Title:  HLCX 5947 leads NS-54A
Description:  Loaded Chester grain train 54A screms through China Grove with a trio of HLCX SD60's.
Photo Date:  10/10/2008  Upload Date: 10/15/2008 7:20:59 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Jonathon Russell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HLCX 5947(SD60)
Views:  995   Comments: 0
NS 173
Title:  NS 173
Description:  NS 173 runs the single track into China Grove on approach behind NS 119.
Photo Date:  11/1/2008  Upload Date: 11/1/2008 4:37:51 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Danny Robie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 2520(SD70)
Views:  1025   Comments: 2
NS 6752 leads train 212 northbound
Title:  NS 6752 leads train 212 northbound
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/7/2009  Upload Date: 4/10/2009 9:35:55 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Harold Hodnett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 6752(SD60I)
Views:  978   Comments: 0
NS 7580 NS 7676 NS 9100 NS 9101
Title:  NS 7580 NS 7676 NS 9100 NS 9101
Description:  NS 753 comes to a stop to wait on NS 212 to blast by
Photo Date:  6/1/2009  Upload Date: 6/3/2009 6:47:56 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  mike decarter
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 7580(ES40DC) NS 7676(ES40DC) NS 9101(C40-9W) NS 9100(C40-9W)
Views:  1321   Comments: 1
NS 6750 leads NS 212 past NS 753 with new UP engine
Title:  NS 6750 leads NS 212 past NS 753 with new UP engine
Description:  NS 212 blast by as the conductor NS 753 watches
Photo Date:  6/1/2009  Upload Date: 6/3/2009 7:20:53 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  mike decarter
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 6750(SD60I) NS 9218(C40-9W) UP 5262(AC45CCTE)
Views:  1364   Comments: 0
NS 9101 died
Title:  NS 9101 died
Description:  NS 753 losing a motor due to a turbo failing
Photo Date:  6/1/2009  Upload Date: 6/3/2009 7:36:08 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  mike decarter
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 4345(SD70M) NS 9101(C40-9W)
Views:  1398   Comments: 2
NS 9101 not filling good today
Title:  NS 9101 not filling good today
Description:  as NS 753 starts to move north engine 9101 does not want to power up, must be a bad turbo
Photo Date:  6/1/2009  Upload Date: 6/3/2009 7:15:27 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  mike decarter
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9101(C40-9W) NS 9000(C40-9W) NS 7580(ES40DC) NS 7676(ES40DC)
Views:  1174   Comments: 0
NS 213
Title:  NS 213
Description:  Loaded stack cars on NS 213 kick up the snow at China Grove, NC
Photo Date:  1/30/2010  Upload Date: 1/30/2010 4:59:40 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Marcus Neubacher
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives: 
Views:  372   Comments: 0
NS 213
Title:  NS 213
Description:  UP power leads NS 213 through the snow at China Grove, NC.
Photo Date:  1/30/2010  Upload Date: 1/30/2010 4:58:46 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Marcus Neubacher
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives: 
Views:  388   Comments: 0
NS PC05
Title:  NS PC05
Description:  After delivering P88/217s pigs to Linwood, Charlotte Yard job PC05 heads south with a single light engine.
Photo Date:  1/30/2010  Upload Date: 1/30/2010 5:01:48 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Marcus Neubacher
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives: 
Views:  453   Comments: 0
NS 6136
Title:  NS 6136
Description:  A work train heads south through China Grove on a bitter cold, overcast morning. The nice EMD power in charge was worth braving the cold temperature for.
Photo Date:  12/4/2010  Upload Date: 10/14/2012 7:55:47 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Matthew Robie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3407(SD40-2) NS 6136(SD40-2)
Views:  782   Comments: 0
NS 153
Title:  NS 153
Description:  A late-running NS 153 hustles through China Grove with a CEFX, former SOO, SD60 leading an NS SD60, NS SD70, and a UP SD60M headed south on a hazy April afternoon.
Photo Date:  4/30/2011  Upload Date: 10/3/2012 1:34:51 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Matthew Robie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CEFX 6008(SD60)
Views:  548   Comments: 0
Amtrak 74
Title:  Amtrak 74
Description:  Double headed power on Amtrak 74 running through China Grove
Photo Date:  4/30/2011  Upload Date: 5/2/2011 11:30:26 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Danny Robie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 15(P42DC)
Views:  581   Comments: 0
NS 213
Title:  NS 213
Description:  Hot intermodal train 213 blasts through the single track between Salisbury and Kannapolis on its journey to Atlanta
Photo Date:  8/17/2011  Upload Date: 11/5/2012 9:08:27 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Drew F
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9462(C40-9W) NS 6616(SD60) NS 9525(C40-9W)
Views:  549   Comments: 0
PPCX 800464 Milwaukee Road Wisconsin
Title:  PPCX 800464 Milwaukee Road Wisconsin
Description:  Amtrak 80 North bound at China Grove with Milwaukee Road Wisconsin car on the rear
Photo Date:  10/3/2012  Upload Date: 10/6/2012 7:27:26 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  mike decarter
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  708   Comments: 0
NS 8072 leads NS-348
Title:  NS 8072 leads NS-348
Description:  348 heads past a maple tree that is bursting with the colors of fall.
Photo Date:  10/17/2012  Upload Date: 10/30/2012 1:05:07 AM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Jonathon Russell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8072(ES44AC)
Views:  718   Comments: 1
NS 119
Title:  NS 119
Description:  NS 119 passes through China Grove with five GE products in charge with the Conrail heritage ES44AC bringing up the rear.
Photo Date:  1/7/2013  Upload Date: 1/13/2013 1:16:25 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Matthew Robie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9000(C40-9W) NS 9145(C40-9W) NS 8399(C40-8W) NS 8019(ES44AC) NS 8098(ES44AC)
Views:  1073   Comments: 2
NS 213
Title:  NS 213
Description:  213 heads south through China Grove with the conductor giving a friendly wave
Photo Date:  2/2/2013  Upload Date: 2/2/2013 10:32:41 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Drew Faulk
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8392(C40-8W) NS 9028(C40-9W)
Views:  755   Comments: 0
Amtrak 75
Title:  Amtrak 75
Description:  75 blasts through China Grove
Photo Date:  2/2/2013  Upload Date: 2/2/2013 10:33:34 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Drew Faulk
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NC 1869(F59PH)
Views:  777   Comments: 1
NS 337
Title:  NS 337
Description:  337 rolls south through the small town of China Grove with an all EMD lashup
Photo Date:  2/2/2013  Upload Date: 2/2/2013 10:34:58 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Drew Faulk
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 2646(SD70M) NS 2737(SD70M-2) NS 6153(SD40-2)
Views:  751   Comments: 0
NS 172
Title:  NS 172
Description:  172 heads north through the single track behind M72 with an even more snow covered catfish
Photo Date:  2/16/2013  Upload Date: 2/17/2013 10:19:51 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Drew Faulk
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9491(C40-9W) NS 8322(C40-8W) UP 4942(SD70M)
Views:  897   Comments: 0
Amtrak 76
Title:  Amtrak 76
Description:  76 blurs north past the Milepost 341 during the bitter winter coldness in February
Photo Date:  2/16/2013  Upload Date: 2/17/2013 10:20:28 PM
Location:  China Grove, NC
Author:  Drew Faulk
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NC 1869(F59PH)
Views:  816   Comments: 0


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