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Heritage unit NS 8114, the "original" Norfolk Southern, leads train 187 out of Columbus, GA, across the Chattahoochee River, and into Alabama on its way to Birmingham. Photo by Casey Thomason. F... (more)

Bay Line 2051 and 2012 leads the "Brickyard" job down 9th Street in downtown Columbus, during a soggy Monday afternoon. This is a Columbus and Chattahoochee Railroad crew, operating on NS trackag... (more)

CCH's Mahrt Turn returns to Columbus from their daily run to the papermill in Cottonton, AL. Today's train is only about two city blocks long, and is stretched out from 5th Av to 3rd Av as it ease... (more)

CCH's Mahrt Turn returns to Columbus from their daily run to the papermill in Cottonton, AL, nearing the east end of the Chattahoochee River bridge before beginning several blocks of street runnin... (more)

The West End switcher goes about sorting cars in the former Central of Georgia yard as the NS Office Car Special out of sigh... (more)

The OCS rolls by at a slow pace on the “Man O’War” track as this train heads for the final stopping point today after a day of running VIPs across the line from Macon to Columbus.

A classic high-hood beauty from EMD has just come out of the fueling tracks and with the power of NS 137 out of the way, can head into the yard to pick up its short train of two more)

The NS OCS has just come into downtown Columbus and recreates a scene from years gone by as it pulls it passenger cars onto the “Man O’ War” track for the final minutes of running before arr... (more)

First Time Visit The NS Office Car Special makes a visit to the former Central of Georgia mainline as the passenger train hauls NS VIPs along the line between Macon and Columbus with the f... (more)

A Railfan's CEO The well known and loved NS CEO Wick Moorman gives a friendly wave as he and fellow guest ride inside the “Buena Vista” car while the Norfolk Southern OCS slowly rolls ... (more)

With a pretty clean SD70M-2 on its train, the daily eastbound freight train NS 336 starts to shove a cut of card into the Columbus yard on a very hot July morning.

Inaugural Run
Crossing over the namesake Chattahoochee River, the first revenue run of G&W’s newest creation the Columbus and Chattahoochee Railroad heads south to the Mahrt paper m... (more)

Seaboard Coast Line SW9 #146 was built March 1951 as Atlantic Coast Line #664 and later became ISCX #146, then WAMX #909

The dazzling colors of the Columbus and Chattahoochee locomotives brighten up a gloomy day as this railroad pulls out their locomotive terminal for the first time as the initial operations in Colu... (more)