By the Carolina Rail Feed Association

Danville District

The Danville District of the Norfolk Southern Mainline is a 78 mile long stretch of track running through North Carolina between the northern border near Danville, VA and Linwood Yard, NC. It is a major corridor for Norfolk Southern and part of their easternmost North-South mainline. It features numerous manifest, intermodal, and passenger trains that make up a bulk of its traffic. It also hosts some of the more important cities in northern North Carolina including Reidsville, Greensboro, High Point, and Lexington.

Train List

Locals

Danville:

  • P06 – Danville — Benaja Turn (Mon-Fri)

Greensboro:

  • P08 – Greensboro — High Point Turn (Sun-Thurs) ✤ ✶
  • P13 – Greenbsboro Road Switcher (Sun, Wed-Sat) ✤
  • P15 – Greenbsboro Road Switcher (Sun-Thurs) ✤
  • P80 – Greensboro — Linwood Turn (Daily ) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • E42 – Greensboro Yard Switcher (Mon-Sat) ✤
  • E44 – Greensboro Yard Switcher (Mon) ✤

Linwood:

  • P02 – Linwood — Thomasville Turn (Mon-Fri) ✦

Passenger

  • 19 Crescent – New York, NY — New Orleans, LA Amtrak (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 20 Crescent – New Orleans, LA — New York, NY Amtrak (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 71 Piedmont – Raleigh, NC — Charlotte, NC Amtrak (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 72 Piedmont – Charlotte, NC — Raleigh, NC Amtrak (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 73 Piedmont – Raleigh, NC — Charlotte, NC Amtrak (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 74 Piedmont – Charlotte, NC — Raleigh, NC Amtrak (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 75 Piedmont – Raleigh, NC — Charlotte, NC Amtrak (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 76 Piedmont – Charlotte, NC — Raleigh, NC Amtrak (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 77 Piedmont – Raleigh, NC — Charlotte, NC Amtrak (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 78 Piedmont – Charlotte, NC — Raleigh, NC Amtrak (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 79 Carolinian – New York, NY — Charlotte, NC Amtrak (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 80 Carolinian – Charlotte, NC — New York, NY Amtrak (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦

Manifest

  • 118 – Bellevue, OH — Linwood, NC Manifest (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 119 – Linwood, NC– Bellevue, OH Manifest (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 134 – Roanoke, VA — Linwood, NC Manifest (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 165 – Linwood, NC — Roanoke, VA Manifest (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 15R – Enola, PA — Linwood, NC Manifest (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦

Coal

  • 744/740 – Shire Oaks, PA — Catawba, NC Loaded Coal (As Needed) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 745/741 – Catawba, NC — Shire Oaks, PA Empty Coal (As Needed) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 750 – Shire Oaks, PA — Belmont, NC (As Needed) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 751 – Belmont, NC — Shire Oaks, PA (As Needed) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 786 – Shire Oaks, PA — Wateree, SC (As Needed) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 787 – Wateree, SC — Shire Oaks, PA (As Needed) ✤ ✶ ✦

Intermodal

  • 24X – Atlanta, GA — Croxton, NJ Intermodal (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 25A – Croxton, NJ — Atlanta, GA Intermodal (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 28R – Atlanta, GA — Rutherford, PA Intermodal (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 27A – Rutherford, PA — Atlanta, GA Intermodal (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 28N – Chicago, IL — Charlotte, NC Intermodal (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 29C – Charlotte, NC — Chicago, IL Intermodal (Daily) ✤ ✶ ✦

Grain

  • 50V – Mansfield, OH — Monetta, SC Loaded Grain (As Needed) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 51V – Monetta, SC — Mansfield, OH Empty Grain (As Needed) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 50W – Fostoria, OH — Chester, SC Loaded Grain (As Needed) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 51W – Chester, SC — Fostoria, OH Empty Grain (As Needed) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 44J – Milmine, IL — Charlotte, NC Loaded Grain (As Needed) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 45J – Charlotte, NC — Milmine, IL Empty Grain (As Needed) ✤ ✶ ✦

Limestone

  • 68V – Unknown — Catawba, NC Loaded Limestone (As Needed) ✤ ✶ ✦
  • 69V – Catawba, NC — Unknown Empty Limestone (As Needed) ✤ ✶ ✦

Radio Frequencies

NameFrequencyChannel
Danville District Road160.905MhzAAR056
Danville District Ch 2160.515MhzAAR080

Feeds

Trains will be marked with the following symbols to signify which feeds they can be heard on:
✤ Greensboro Feed
✶ Thomasville Feed
✦ Salisbury Feed

Detectors

Ruffin (251.5)
Reidsville (266.0)
Rudd (276.5) ✤
Hilltop (291.5) ✤✶
High Point (301.9) ✶
Lexington (316.2) ✦