The orange rusty colors of brand new wheels shine bright as they ride atop a former Conrail wheel flatcar used for the sole purpose of transporting railroad wheel sets.

With both of its locomotives unable to load properly, Q602 is stuck and must wait for help in the form of Q601 to come down from West Point to pull its train north. Meanwhile Railroad: Norfolk Southern
Locomotive: GE C40-9W (Dash 9-40CW)
Location: Opelika, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: NS 9315
Train ID: CSX Q602
Photo Date: February 22, 2010

Pigs and Pig Iron
A piggyback section of NS 20K passes in front of the famous Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces as this intermodal comes to a stop in River Yard to break down its train.

The daily KCKDEN waits on the Avondale siding as a loaded coal train meets it and a loaded rail train sits on the 1876 built Santa Fe mainline to the left.

Resting on the Opelika siding, A746 waits for a crew which will be arriving in a few minutes to begin its nocturnal operation. Since the CSX MoW has a curfew in effect for their tie replacement, ... (more)

A41 rolls through Alexander City and passes a new generator that was set off earlier in the day.

Full House
The side by side yards of Union Pacific and BNSF look relatively full today with freight cars of various types, each having its own reason for being here. For example, the... (more)

With the Christmas holiday behind us, A746 is back at it this morning as it prepares to depart Opelika heading north after dropping off interchange cars with NS. To the right, my beautiful girlfr... (more)

Two of the original five SD38-2s built for L&N are seen heading towards the receiving yard to do what they were built for, that is to hump cars. There are only five of these locomotives on the CS... (more)

Only one AC6000 is needed for spotting 15 cars in Opelika and pulling the rest of Q600 to LaGrange.

While it still retains the white diagonal stripes from its days on the Burlington Northern and Great Western Railway, this 1950 built SW7 now finds itself working for Liberty Railway Services as i... (more)

BNSF’s all seeing eye
An interesting tag finds itself on the side of a BNSF beer car as it heads to North Yard for interchange with NS.

Foreign power is becoming a regular sight along the CSX these days and Montgomery is no exception as a UP GP60 rests between assignments underneath the SE Vera signal cantilever. This unit was bu... (more)

This 1973 built EMD SW1001 of Reading heritage starts to pull a cut of well cars out of the small holding yard and into the Georgia Ports Authority property for their next stage in the global trad... (more)

Looking a little worse for wear, three Warbonnet painted locomotives and one War Pumpkin perform a little switching before dropping off their rear two units and more)