NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
(also known as NCRRIP, or "Nick-Rip")

CTC signaling in service from Greensboro to Mile Post H-34 at "Isom," the name given the control point at the east end of the Mebane siding

all photos taken
on 3/10/03
by Wingate Lassiter
McLEANSVILLE: west end of the lengthened siding.
"SUPERIOR" is the name of the railroad control point at the east end of the McLeansville siding.
ELON is now the name of the town where Elon University (formerly Elon College) sits beside the NCRR.

BURLINGTON's "new" station taking shape in one of the original NCRR structures at "Company Shops."

MEBANE: Norfolk Southern's afternoon westbound freight – No. 349 bound from Chocowinity to Linwood – gets a "high green" signal at the west end of the Isom-Mebane siding.