George Harris
Engineer
Looks like a chance to take a daylight ride on the old Southern Railway main north of Greensboro?
From the NCDOT web site:
www.bytrain.org/pdf/june22_service_change.pdf
"Carolinian Trains 79 and 80 -Service Change - Effective June 22 Only
Trains 79 and 80 will operate on an alternate route and will not stop at stations between Alexandria, Va., and Greensboro, N.C., on June 22."
These named points say that all the RF&P - ACL - Raleigh-Greensboro line stations are being skipped. Seems like that would equal a tour down the Southern main Charlottesville - Lynchburg - Danville. (How else could they get there? )
This should put the train into Greensboro about 1.5 to 2 hours early southbound and into Alexandria VA about the same 1.5 to 2 hours early northbound.
You can still make a Raleigh to the north daytime trip, you just have to leave a little earlier and you will be doing it Southern Railway all the way. Ride the Piedmont between Raleigh and Greensboro and then you ride the Carolinian to/from the north.
From the NCDOT web site:
www.bytrain.org/pdf/june22_service_change.pdf
"Carolinian Trains 79 and 80 -Service Change - Effective June 22 Only
Trains 79 and 80 will operate on an alternate route and will not stop at stations between Alexandria, Va., and Greensboro, N.C., on June 22."
These named points say that all the RF&P - ACL - Raleigh-Greensboro line stations are being skipped. Seems like that would equal a tour down the Southern main Charlottesville - Lynchburg - Danville. (How else could they get there? )
This should put the train into Greensboro about 1.5 to 2 hours early southbound and into Alexandria VA about the same 1.5 to 2 hours early northbound.
You can still make a Raleigh to the north daytime trip, you just have to leave a little earlier and you will be doing it Southern Railway all the way. Ride the Piedmont between Raleigh and Greensboro and then you ride the Carolinian to/from the north.
