Red Springs & Northern

RS&N Members Bucky Elks, Alana Norris, Jerry & Jewel Bullard, Alan Clark, Alton Riley, Bruce Smith, Robert Rhew, Tom Stallings, John Shefte, Screech Lanis, and a guest appearance by Bob Netwton attended the National Train Day at the North Carolina Transportation Museum on Friday, May 12 and Saturday, May 13.  Four RS&N members brought motorcars. The weather Friday put a damper on the turnout.  The Saturday weather was much better.  Motorcar

National Train Day at the N.C. Transportation Museum located in Spencer, North Carolina will be held on Friday and Saturday, May 12 and 13.  The event will feature passenger and caboose train rides.  The N.C. Transportation Museum will also feature Red Springs & Northern motor car rides.  The A-6 motor car will be there to provide rides to attendees.  Members are also welcome to bring their motor cars to provide

Members of RSN attended the Girl Scout Rail Camp at the North Carolina Transportation Museum on March 25. Thanks to Debbie Lee, Mark Bullard, Dan Willey, John Shefte, Clay Massey, Tom Stallings, and guest Kermit White who volunteered for this worthy event.               Debbie did an excellent job hosting and car loading with Dan as the engineer.              

The RS&N Annual Membership Meeting was held Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 10:00 am at the Red Springs Public Works Facility     Annual reports by officers, board members and committee chairs was presented to the members.  Elections were held and members voted for three director positions.    Lunch was served after the annual meeting.   The Board of Directors for 2017 Tim Parnell, Phil Gandy, Jim Fetchero, Susan Cease, Mark Bullard, Tom Stallings, Doug Bedenbaugh, Tommy Tutherow  

I would like to pass along some more forward progress on the RS&N.   Rick Tufts has begun to scrape, grind and prime our tie crane. I look forward to the day we can send the folks at Spencer a picture of the completed project! Work will continue as weather allows and anyone who is interested in helping out with this project, you are more than welcome, this doesn’t need

We are all mourning the loss of fellow member John Michael Green who passed away suddenly on December 5th, 2016 at his home. John has been a member of the RS&N for many years and was one of our Board Directors. He was instrumental in the organization having radio communications on the whole line from Red Springs to Parkton, he also was responsible for the chain link fencing at our

Please join us for our 2016 Rails to Christmas railcar rides in downtown Red Springs.  Tickets are $5.00 per person with children under 5 years of age free. We will be collecting nonperishable food to make Christmas food baskets for needy families in the area.  Donations of canned vegetable/fruit goods, canned hams, stuffing mix, corn bread mix, cake mix, etc. would be greatly appreciated. We look forward to celebrating the

Best Holiday wishes to all: We at Red Springs & Northern Railroad are more busy this Holiday season than usual.  Hurricane Matthew in November dealt Robeson County a severe blow in every category, from loss of housing to loss of crops.  The railroad damage was no exception.  I selected a couple of representative phots to give the reader a brief overview.  So far, with only volunteer labor and our own

RSN has two cars on loan to the Volunteer Railroaders Association in New Jersey.  They are currently running short trips out of Cape May, the oldest resort seashore town in that state. We were more than happy to assist them with this event.  The ride take passengers out through tidal areas rich with wildlife including bald eagles.                          

Many thanks to the following organizations that made it possible for a new water source near Mountaire: 1. Mountaire Inc. 2. Robeson County Water 3. Red Springs & Northern Railroad (RSN) 4. NCDOT Highway Division 5. Various  contractors                                                      You are looking at a new water hydrant,