CSX Q695 southbound at Free Hill (Gray).
In the first few minutes of sunlight on this chilly Tuesday morning, brand new SD70MAC #4713 leads Q695 south as it leaves Kingsport after making a rather hefty pickup.
NS 168 rounding the curve at Kirkwood Road in Salvisa with a rare CNW C44-9W leading.
NS 61N climbing the mountain at Kings Mnt.
NS 175 working through the deep cut at Kings Mountain.
CP, SOO, and BNSF power gets NS train 61N moving away from Bowen after meeting a northbound 144.
NS 125 rolls across the Pope Lick Trestle eastbound with a nice western visitor in the form of BN SD60M #9265 leading.
NS SD70M 2603 leads the 375 westbound across Pope Lick Trestle east of Louisville.
CSX Q686 northbound at Hitchcock on the Hoosier Sub with a flag and flare SD70M leading.
CSX Q565 southbound blasing through Campbellsburg on the Hoosier Sub.
CSX 255 leads the Q554 westbound at the EE of Georgia siding as it rolls by a classic B&O CPL.
CSX Q554 westbound at the East End of Georgia Siding on the ex-B&O St. Louis-Cincinnati mainline.
CSX Q564 westbound on the B&O coming by the east signal at Loogootee.
CSX 7778 leads the Q565 as it splits the 'blades' at Hitchcock, IN on the CSX Hoosier Sub.
CSX Q686 is westbound on the B&O at Mitchell after turning the wye from the Hoosier Sub with a UP Flag-n-Flare SD70M leading.
CSX Q565-25 is shoving around the wye at Mitchell from the Indiana Subdivision to the Hoosier Subdivision. Once the whole train is on the Hoosier side, they will line the switch and head south on ... (more)
A pair of WC SD45s lead CSX Q564 northbound up the Hoosier Sub (Monon) just north of Wilson.
CSX Q208 northbound on the street running trackage in LaGrange.
Christmas Day 2003 is drawing to a close as a pair of RJ Corman GP16s idle away the night with the Lexington skyline rising in the background.
CSX road slug 2231 (former L&N GP35 1104) sits inside the open-air shop at Corbin on Christmas night 2003.
G962 is grinding southbound at Pigeon Roost as it crosses the Pigeon Roost Creek.
UP 3269 leads the G962 southbound past the classic seen at Huntdale.
NS 751 westbound coming around the curve and crossing Stock Creek just east of Glenita.
NS U46 is shuffling empties on the west end of Norton Yard.
Final shot of G934 at Hill's Station.
G934 eases downhill at Dante to cut the pusher engine off.
With just a few more miles of NS trackage rights left, this westbound CSX will shortly be re-joining CSX rails for the trip to Loyall.
CSX E345 is dropping down the hill toward Big Stone seen here in the winter wonderland at Irondale.
Kicking up the freshly fallen snow, CSX 383 leads the E345 westbound at Tito on the mainline.
NS U49 builds its train on the east end of Norton Yard.
CSX 8045 and a GP40-2 have just finished the 2nd trick yard job duties in the yard at Kingsport and now sit idle on this frosty December night.
NS 706 sitting on the mainline at Yuma waiting on a westbound empty train. NS SD70M #2606 sporting the "unibrow" scheme leads the 706.
NS cab 555004 is on the rear of the loaded coal train (#Q2A) bound for Eastman. The train sits in the siding at Yuma as eastbound Georgia Power train 706 blurs by on the mainline.
NS 73A tied down in the yard at Smith awaiting a crew for the westbound trip to Andover.
NS GP50 7055 sits in Kingsport, TN on a frosty December night as it awaits its work at 11pm on the night job switcher to Frisco and back. [Canon D60, 19 seconds @ f/6.7, ISO 200, 19mm]
NS 707 westbound coming around the reverse curve at Sunbright with a UP AC4400CW leading.
A nice suprise in the form of this BNSF SD45-2 leads a northbound train onto the #2 track at Caliente, CA
Rolling eastbound across the Mojave Desert @ 70mph beside of this JB Hunt stack train.
Tight shot of this eastbound freight train as it rolls across the Mojave east of Kramer Jct.
Sunset light illuminates the nose of BNSF 5443 as it climbs Goffs' Hill westbound out of Needles. The rear of the train can be seen in the background.
BNSF 4812 leads a westbound intermodal train across the Mojave just east of Ludlow.
BNSF 5253 leads a hot-shot eastbound stack train across the Mojave Desert at Siberia.
BNSF 4491 leads a southbound pig train toward Tunnel 2 as the sun sets on a sunny and cool day on Tehachapi.
Four BNSF Blue & Yellow GPs sit with a train on the spur track at Boron waiting mainline clearance.
BNSF 115 leads a Barstow-bound intermodal train as it tackles the Goff's Hill between Goffs and Java on the BNSF Needles Sub.
BNSF whiteface SD60M #9239 leads a GCFX SD40-2, CSX SD60I, NS C40-9W, and BNSF B40-8W on a northbound train which is about to swap crews at Sandcut, just a few miles out of Bakersfield.
UP 5749 grings up the grade at Tunnel 2
UP 6344, a patched and re-numbered SP AC4400CW, leads an empty coal train at Mojave as they make a 20-odd car pickup out of the Mojave yard.
UP 4914 leads a southbound at Bealville.
BNSF 4555 leads an intermodal train towards the summit of Tehachapi Pass. In a little over a mile the grade will crest and the two GEs will have the intermodal train zipping toward Mojave.
ATSF 660 south is about to enter Tunnel 3 at Bealville as it climbs toward the summit at Tehachapi.
ATSF 660 south sits on the mainline in "downtown" Bealville while a track inspector clears in the siding.
Southbound autoracks behind ATSF/UP/BNSF power climbs the grade as seen from atop Tunnel 2.
After stopping to hand-line the crossover switches at Sandcut this Bakersfield-bound train is on the move again behind a colorful mix of power (including two GP35s on the bottom).
"Artsy" going away shot of this northbound train just north of the horseshoe curve at Caliente.
BNSF 4008 leads a southbound freight under the signal bridge at MP 377 just north of Mojave.
A rare SD45-2 leads a MRL SD40-2 and a BNSF SD40-2 on a northbound manifest around the horseshoe curve and into the sun at Caliente.
BNSF SD45-2 #6502 leads a northbound freight train out of tunnel #5 at Bealville.
BNSF Warbonnet 742 leads a freight train southbound at Tunnel 2.
The TCRM excursion is westbound now as it passes through Hickman on the way back to Nashville.
