Welcome to the Trainscapes segment! Each week here on Geek Alabama, Trainscapes will feature train content including videos of trains and behind the scenes action of trains and locomotives. Some people have an interest in seeing trains, and we here at Geek Alabama aim to please the train lovers!

In this video, C. Vision Productions takes you to Norfolk Southern’s famous Saluda Grade in North Carolina, to view trains operating over the astonishing four to five percent grades between Saluda and Melrose. This section of track had the distinction of being the steepest standard-gauge mainline railroad grade in the United States.

Trains battled Saluda for 123 years, from 1878 until 2001. Today, the portion of track over the Saluda Grade sits in disuse. Formerly operated by the Southern Railway, this was Norfolk Southern’s “W Line”, between Asheville, North Carolina, and Columbia, South Carolina, via Spartanburg. Videographer Dan Hadley visited Saluda during the final years of operations over this historic stretch of track, allowing you to see what the trains and physical plant looked like shortly before train traffic ceased.

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