The elusive Thermal Belt Railway has just dropped a car off at the CSX interchange, and is headed back to the engine track to tie up.

Thermal Belt motive power sits on the siding in Bostic as the last light of sunset peers down the tracks, straight onto the units.

Motive power for the thermal Belt Railway (GP10 No. 4601 and SW1 No. 1) basks in the sun in Bostic, NC on a beautiful mid-afternoon in late February.

Thermal Belt's GP10, No. 4601, rests on the siding in Bostic, NC on a cold, breezy night in late February. The locomotive was originally built as a GP9, then later rebuilt into a GP10.