| Asheville, NC, April 25, 2016, 8:47am: Watco Company’s Blue Ridge Southern (BLU) train T33 is shut down in front of the west end tower at Norfolk Southern Railroad’s Asheville yard. T33 is the night train that makes the Canton-Asheville-Canton run, but is parked this morning after running out of crew time while waiting for clearance to leave Asheville for the return to Canton. WAMX 4203, 4202, and 4204, EMD SD40-2s in SD45 car bodies, is waiting for a crew from BLU’s main office in Canton, about 20 miles west of Asheville. Just to the east of BLU's locomotives is the NS yard unit. |