Full Circle
Completed wheel sets sit on the ground and await installation on coal hoppers in the back. The ground they are sitting on used to be home to the famous Abex Corporation w... (more)

CSX wasn’t the only one to make changes to train schedules in my area during 2017. Management decided to cut the daily through trains off the CofG route and instead use it as an “as needed”... (more)

While not original to this particular locomotive, the Thoroughbred looks pretty good on the locomotive’s nose as it’s framed in by the safety rails.

A single locomotive consist is all that's needed to pull N247 through Birmingham and past the background of Sloss Furnace on a clear and sunny day. Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)
Locomotive: EMD SD70MAC
Location: Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: CSXT 4777
Train ID: CSX N247
Photo Date: February 12, 2011

Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Obtained by the Missouri Pacific in 1967, the C&EI allowed the MoPac to gain direct access to Chicago from St. Louis. The C&EI would operate as a unit of M... (more)

A BNSF 70MAC sans the BN nose logo is seen pulling a long coal train around the yard in Pueblo as it makes its way through the steel town for a power plant in Texas.

The sun rises through the clouds and over the former Western Railway of Alabama trackage as it signals the beginning of another day of train movement along the CSX mainline. Photo taken at a gr... (more)

It’s a gorgeous morning as the second section of 186 (M86) glides into Salem and past the unique antiques store next to the tracks with a pair of KCS locomotives. The caboose in the back is a fo... (more)

With the new Transportation Services Inc. car repair facility almost complete, this newly repainted CF7 will be ready to move coal hoppers in the coming months.

Originally built for Conrail in 1977, this majestic EMD SD40-2 is powering today's AB14 as the train goes about switching cars in the Finley yard before it departs for local work around Birmingham... (more)

The Manchester local of A720 is silent today as it sits on the locomotive spur track at the namesake city of Manchester. Entering the yard on the right is the empty ballast train of W055 seen rol... (more)

With its work done for today, Y120 shoves its way back into S&NA Yard with a really clean looking Dash 8 standard cab.

The power from last night’s nocturnal A38 is seen this time in the daylight pulling the Meridian bound A55 out of the Magic City with one of the 32 NS Mother Slug RP-E4C sets leading. Here is <... (more)

With their work of dropping off cars for interchange with NS done, the light engines of the BNSF transfer leave North Yard and head back to East Thomas for a short rest before powering that day’... (more)

A pair of Santa Fe EMD units work alongside each other in Pueblo today as the 101 local switches cars around before departing for its customers later this morning.