The Q612 comes barrelling through Bay Minnette, Alabama along the M&M Subdivision on a clear Saturday morning with CSXT 8160 leading the way.
Union Station in Meridian is a beautifully laid out facility. In addition to catching Amtrak's Crescent one can also grab a Greyhound bus to reach your travel destination.
A group of engines parked in what looks like a maintenance shed at the Meridian & Bigbee yard in, you guessed it, Meridian.
Stumbled across this scene while staying overnight in Meridian, Mississippi.
IC 6134, in CN colors, makes the turn at CN Junction heading for home at Johnston Yard with this transfer train from BNSF's Tennessee Yard on the other side of town.
A reliable find in the afternoons is the intermodal transfer from the Norfolk Southern to the UP. Here NS 225 has changed hands and become UP ZNSLC with NS engine 8780 out front.
A big and boxy ACe unit, UP 8430, heads west with intermodal train ZNSLC as it passes under the signals at CN Junction.
BNSF autotrain V BIRLPC8 22K heads west on Main 2 of the Thayer South Sub with BNSF 5518 on the point.
The UP transfer train, MMENLD, heads out of town as it passes Kentucky Street with NS 9617 in the lead and Ferrocarril Mexicano 4618 in the number three spot.
UP 9733 brings the MNLMED train down City Main 1, enroute to CN Johnston Yard, as it passes Specialty Feeds Inc.
Covered hoppers, including a few still sporting the DRGW logo, are on a side track at the Riceland Foods Plant in Stuttgart, Arkansas.
With an ex-Conrail unit in the number two slot, NS 8896 brings the 213 intermodal train through the crossing at Main Street in Rossville, TN.
Westbound intermodal train NS 213 passes through the campus of the University of Memphis with NS engines 7145, 7150 & 7142 for power as it apporaches the Highland Street corssing.
The UP GSAIPG 12 rolls its grain train by the Stuttgart Yard on the main line of the Jonesboro Sub on its way to Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
On my way to Park City for a little skiing, I took a slight detour to catch this auto train (AMNLSB 06) in the UP yard at Salt Lake City.