A CSX Transportation Inc. bush cutter makes its way up the tracks that parallel Blue Clay Road Tuesday afternoon. The spider-like contraption uses blades on long metal arms to trim foliage off the right-of-way on and near the tracks.
CSX Transportation workers replace some of the tracks after Monday night's derailment in Warsaw in Duplin County (N.C.). The train's freight cars were loaded with corn, which was on its way to Carroll Foods when the derailment occurred.
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, Train tracks, Fish, Buildings,
View of Muter's Alley and Water Streets looking North toward Dock Street, 1940. Railroad tracks are running along Water Street. On the right side is the Ice House, with 2 well-dressed men standing outside, and on the left is an extremely large...
Hallsboro, NC, Columbus County, showing Pierce and Company General Store, across the highway from the double railroad tracks, that bisected the small town.
Bladen County, North Carolina, railroads, courts, police force, officers
What was once the Bladenboro train depot now houses a police station and magistrate's office. The tracks that pass by on the other side of the fence are still in use.
Repairing, Brunswick County, sinkhole, construction
Heavy equipment lines a stretch of railroad track in Boiling Spring Lakes that has been plagued by sinkholes. Concrete caissons are been sunk 40-80 feet to give the tracks a sound footing.
railroads, railroad, New Hanover County, derailment
Seaboard Rail crews use a crane to right the second of two locomotives which jumped the tracks near the crossing at Second and Kidder Streets on Tuesday night in Wilmington, N.C.
Carolina Heights, New Hanover County, churches, neighborhoods, North Carolina, First Church of Christ, Neoclassical Revival
Street scenes of Carolina Heights at 17th and Princess Streets, and 17th and Market Streets in Wilmington, N.C. The top image shows the streetcar tracks running down the street. Streetcars allowed residents to live at the edge of town, thus...
Railroad tracks, New Hanover County, North Carolina, Train terminals
An aerial view of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Buildings on Front and Red Cross Streets in Wilmington. The Union Station is also visible in the picture. ACL left the city in the 1960's and the Union Station was demolished in 1970.
Three men hoist a large stingray, pronounced locally sting-a-ree, culled from Wrightsville Sound around 1925. The stingrays are a family—Dasyatidae—of rays, cartilaginous fishes related to sharks. They are common in coastal tropical and...
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Terminal, N. Front Street
The railroad terminal and offices were located in the 400 and 500 blocks of north Front Street. (Note streetcar tracks.) The General offices moved to Jacksonville, FL, in 1960. The buildings were given to the City of Wilmington and most were...
Chestnut Street - 100 block - north side The main buildings are (from left) the first floor of the Murchison Building, (built 1913/1914); the Murchison National Bank-Acme Building (1902) and the tall building to the left, the Cape Fear Hotel...