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Welcome to the Asheville, North Carolina Area Stream.  The stream is located on the east side of Asheville near Azelea, NC and hosted by Grady McKinley using the RailroadRadio server.  Please check out the Forum dedicated to this stream for additional info pertaining to this stream. 

For a map of the area covered click here.

Channels Currently Monitored

Defect Detectors Heard:

Train Volume:

Typical Trains heard in Asheville (S-Line)

Eastbound:  166, 134, 750, 72R, P87, 61K, 67E, 700-series (Loaded Coal), 500 series (Loaded Grain)

Westbound:  165, 135, 751, 73R, P87, 60K, 66E, 700-series (Empty Coal), 500 series (Empty Grain)

Typical Trains (T-Line)

P31 (Canton, NC to Asheville & Return), P33 (Canton to Asheville & Return 2nd Shift), P59 (Canton, NC to Sylva & Return), 900 series rock trains (Asheville to Enka, NC Quarry)

Typical Trains (W-Line)

P44 (Asheville to Hendersonville & Return), P89 & P90 (Locals to Arden to pick-up coal hoppers), 784 (Loaded Coal to Arden, NC), 785 (Empty Hoppers: Arden, NC to Asheville)

 Other Movements:

784 & 785 are loaded coal trains.  They operate from the coalfields to Asheville via the S-Line from Leadvale, TN & Bulls Gap, TN and are taken to Skyland Power (Arden) in two segments from Asheville Yard.  These are usually symboled P89 & P90 when the use the T-line, but they can also be symboled 784 & 785 on the T-Line as well.

900 series rock trains run from Tennessee to Asheville, and then are taken to the Quarry by a local crew.  From time to time these trains also come from Salisbury, but that's a rarity.

500 series (i.e. 57Z, 54A, 51Z are grain movements even numbers are EB & odd numbers are WB)

Also from time to time you will hear 400 series grain trains (i.e. 44N 40T etc..)

700 series trains are coal movements (i.e 73R, 72R).  Again even means EB and odd means WB.  All coal running via Asheville originates in the coalfields and comes to Asheville via Bulls Gap, TN and a connection with the S-Line at Leadvale (Douglas, TN).

The Asheville, NC radio stream covers the action in & around the Asheville, NC area.  The S-Line comes into Asheville from the east (Salisbury) and then heads west to Morristown, TN where it junctions with the line from Bristol to Knoxville.  Also heard are the W-Line (a.k.a. Saluda Line).  The W-Line sees coal traffic to Arden, NC and a local to Hendersonville, NC.  Also the T-Line to Sylva, NC sees locals & rock trains to a Vulcan Quarry at Enka, NC.  All lines are TWC from the Asheville district dispatcher in Greenville, SC.

Asheville District S-Line Signals 

EB Sig:  WB Sig:                                                    Track

124.1       124.2                                                          S
Defect Detector MP 125.2                                           S
East End Grovestone                                                PS
West End Grovestone                                               PS
129.6       129.5      "Swannanoa"                                S      
132.2       132.1                                                           S      
Defect Detector MP 133.2                                           S      
134.8       134.9      "Azelea"                                        S      
136.6       136.7      "Fairview or "Home Depot"           S      
138.3       138.2      "Asheville Yard"                            S      
BI Tower                                                                 DT      Junction with W-Line
Asheville Yard                                                          DT      
Mitchell                                                                    DT                                       
Murphy Junction                                                     DT          Junction with T-Line

MP 144                                                                    DT

Craggy                                                                                End Double Track