Former Denver, Rio Grande Western Railway GP35 3044 in 2024. No time traveling DeLorean needed.

An old J locomotive spends out her later years on Georgia's Hartwell Railroad.

An old, weathered former Denver, Rio Grande & Western locomotive stands on the railway line adjacent to an industrial silo and a structured building on Georgia's Hartwell Railroad.

A former Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway EMD sits on the point of a Hartwell Railroad train in need of a crew to take it to the Norfolk Southern interchange in Toccoa.

Former EJ&E SD38 #654 sits at the feed mill at Rose Acre overnight.

Former EJ&E SD38 #654 sits at the feed mill at Rose Acre overnight.

A southbound train passes the Purdue mill north of Bowersville, Georgia with an ex CNW GP9 in the lead. Ex EJ&E 654 and Georgia Power No. 2 are on the mill track.

Former Rio Grande GP35 No. 3044 is switching at the Rose Acre feed mill in Bowersville on a pleasant summer morning.

The morning sun lights up a pair of classic motors on the Hartwell Railroad as they get their day started at the Rose Acre feed mill in Bowersville.

A former CNW GP9 and EJ&E SD38 drag a cut of grain cars through Bowersville while switching between the two mills in town.

Former Rio Grande GP35 sits out in the countryside at the Perdue Mill outside Bowersville, Georgia as the moon dips down toward the horizon.

Looking back on a short northbound train for Toccoa as we blast by sitting engines in Bowersville amidst a cold winter rain. We're on the former St. Lawrence & Atlantic GP40 no. 3000.

Ex-Conrail now Hartwell GP38 No. 1973 sits tied down in Bowersville.

ex-B&LE power in Georgia back in 2005.

HRT 3044, ex-Rio Grande, sits next to the rear of a southbound Hartwell train. HRT 4556, ex-CNW, brings up the rear of the southbound train, posing for a photo before heading on southbound.