100 system hoppers for Rincon, GA exit Hickory Tunnel #2 and cross over Hickory Creek.
126 loads of Pennsylvania coal drag up the grade at Duff Mountain. Due to the DPU not working, the train would stall and require a de facto manned helper to get over the grade.
It doesn't happen often, but when the power gets out of whack, Georgia Northeastern will run long hood forward. It makes for an interesting look, especially with all 3 'paint schemes' currently i... (more)
ERB Industries makes safety apparel & gear. Once every couple months, they receive a pneumatic covered hopper of plastic pellets. Most smaller industries receive transloaded plastics by truck, s... (more)
The New York, Chicago & St Louis Railroad was a pioneer of piggyback intermodal service. 64 years later, an entire train of ISO containers from the Port of Savannah to Austell (Atlanta), GA lead ... (more)
Drink Coca-Cola, Delicious & Refreshing. A pair of non-Sadmiral Cab SD40-2's are also refreshing on an intermodal transfer returning from Inman Yard.
With a fresh Alabama Division Crew, 153 departs for Birmingham.
Running 2 x 89 x 1 x 59, Chattanooga to Macon 372 took a long time to get over Braswell Mountain.
KCS runthrough IMYNS is almost to the final destination of Atlanta, GA, seen here splitting the crooked signals at Lithia Springs. I've grown used to the retro-belle scheme, but will miss KCS whe... (more)
One of the classier Watco operations I've encountered, the Blue Ridge Southern local returns from Waynesville.
Spending the first 38 years of it's life on the IC, ICG & nouveau IC, this Paducahbilt GP11 has since retired to Florida.
Depicting multiple modes of transporting harvested sugar cane. Bryant Turn #1 heads shuttles empties to the cane fields east of Bryant, where private US Sugar runs will deliver to the loadouts.
Returning from Whitestone, a late day GNRR passes the well maintained depot now housing the Pickens County Mercantile and Quilt Shoppe.
Rural YN2, bovines & shacks.
A Whitaker Yard to Inman Yard intermodal transfer heads towards Atlanta with multiple blocks of intermodal for the Atlantic Coast.