I first started documenting the Caldwell County Railroad during the spring of 2006. My very first memory of a train was from this railroad in the early 1990's as a train pass by Hardee's in downtown Hudson, NC. A lot has changed since then and a lot has changed in the four short years that I have been photographing the railroad. The railroad starts in Hickory, NC where they interchange with Norfolk Southern. The tracks run north towards Lenoir, NC. On August 31st, 2007 the last train ran through Lenoir, NC when 5 miles of the Caldwell County Railroad (CWCY) was closed so that Google could build a server farm. The railroad currently runs to Hudson/Whitnel, NC once or twice a week, if that.