Piedmont Division

The Piedmont is the name of the Rail Division in North Carolina, owned by Amtrak, NCDOT and Norfolk Southern. It was added as a Rail Division by the NC Department of Transportation in a unknown year, was unnamed and was a freight service with two EMD GP40PH-2 locomotives 1792 and 1768. The Piedmont was named and became a passenger service in 1995, and is running to this day.

Train Appearance
The locomotives all have the same theme, yellow words "NC" in front, with a Silver Star between N and C or bellow it. The main colors of the train match the NC flag, the front being blue, with yellow and red stripes on the bottom of the train, a black Plate, and the words "NORTH CAROLINA" on the side of the trains in black. The design is similar for all of the engines, with the twin engines looking the same, and the sister engines having atleast one twin engine. The F59PH has 6 twins, F59PHI has two, and the GP40PH had two.

Locomotives
1797 City of Asheville (EMD F59PHI, 1999- Present)

1755 City of Salisbury (EMD F59PHI, 2002- Present)

1869 City of Durham (EMD F59PH, 2011- Present)

1893 City of Burlington (EMD F59PH, 2011- Present)

1810 City of Greensboro (EMD F59PH, 2012- Present)

1859 City of High Point (EMD F59PH, 2012- Present)

1984 City of Kannapolis (EMD F59PH, 2017- Present)

1871 Town of Cary (EMD F59PH, 2017- Present)

Cab Control Units
101 (EMD F59PH, 2017- Present)

102 (EMD F59PH, 2017- Present)

103 (EMD F59PH, 2017- Present)

Coaches
Cardinal (Coach, 66 seat)

Dogwood (Coach, 66 seat)

Honey Bee (Coach, 66 seat)

Long Leaf Pine (Coach, 66 seat)

Scotch Bonnet (Coach, 64 seat)

Plott Hound (Coach, 66 seat)

Channel Bass (Coach, 66 seat)

Gray Squirrel (Coach, 56 seat)

Emerald (Coach, 56 seat)

Box Turtle (Coach, 56 seat)

Granite (Coach, 56 seat)

Carolina Lily (Coach, 56 seat)

Fraser Fir (Coach, 56 seat)

Sweet Potato (Coach, 56 seat)

Baggage/Lounge
Pamlico Sound

Albemarle Sound

Core Sound

Currituck Sound

Bogue Sound

Yadkin River

Locomotives
1792 City of Raleigh (EMD GP40PH-2, 1995 - 2010) Hit a Lowboy Tractor trailer truck, exploded and derailed then later retired and scrapped.

1768 City of Charlotte (EMD GP40PH-2, 1995 - 1999) Deactivated in 1999, and sold to Virginia Railway Express in 2001.

Coaches
Mt. Mitchell (Domed Coach) Sold in 2006

Locomotives
1910 City of Hillsborough (EMD F59PH)

Cab Control Units
104 (EMD F59PH)

105 (EMD F59PH)

Coaches
Venus Flytrap (Coach, 64 Seat)

Strawberry (Coach, 64 Seat)