Coal for Christmas On the day after Christmas the Athens Line delivers two cars of coal to the UGA powerplant in Athens. The steep grade into the plants means that only two loads at a time ... (more)

The classic face of a old friend. A deathbed visit with one of my favorite locomotives, the Hartwell 3016, a former DRGW veteran has been sold to RSSX and is soon to be departing for Longview, Tex... (more)

A GP30 carbody and a caboose on a local in 2011? Ill take it.

Athens Line's Chessie GP9 seems to be back in service again, maybe. After being brought back to life last summer with a new generator last summer, the unit was again put out of service due to elec... (more)

CSX Q667 soars over North Avenue and the Oconee River as it heads south on the Abbeville Sub.

Hartwell 8396 and 3016 lead a storage move back from Watkinsville alongside Milledge Avenue, this may well be one of the last moves on this line since ALL storage cars were pulled out from Watkins... (more)

Hartwell 8396 and 3016 lead a storage move back from Watkinsville alongside Milledge Avenue, this may well be one of the last moves on this line since ALL storage cars were pulled out from Watkins... (more)

Far from fighting grades of the Rocky Mountains, former Rio Grande GP30 3016 is preparing to shove a car three miles to an online transloading facility North of Athens, Georgia on Thursday April ... (more)

A westbound manifest train on the Abbeville Sub with CSX #542 in the lead splits the classic Seaboard signals at NE Fowler Junction just north of downtown Athens.

A mix n match YN2-YN3 slugset shoves back to Fowler junction after working the industries in east Athens on a nice spring day.

This bridge will eat your bike! A battered and worn GP40-2 leads Y111 over the Cleveland Ave trestle which displays an interesting clearance sign...

Just a classic southern shortline scene, a ribbon of rail and ballast trying to stand above the onslaught of the fields of Kudzu.

Athens Line's power whiles away the night at the UGA heating plant on this chilly winter night. The coal delivered will be used to heat the UGA campus for the next few months before summer takes g... (more)

The smoking beast awaits at the top of the hill, awaiting the crews to allow the UGA heating plant crews to unload the coal from the hoppers before bringing its train back down the spur which runs... (more)

The beast lives! After two plus years out of service the 6525 once again rolls through Athens. Here a northbound Athens Line storage move from Watkinsville passes the massive waste of taxp... (more)