Canadian National's Wisconsin Central Heritage ET44AC Locomotive #3069 acts as the DP unit on northbound Tanker Train U261, seen here passing through the Mississippi Delta at Yazoo City, MS.

Canadian National's Wisconsin Central Heritage ET44AC Locomotive #3069 acts as the DP unit on northbound Tanker Train U261, seen here passing through the Mississippi Delta at Greenwood, MS.

Canadian National's Wisconsin Central Heritage ET44AC Locomotive #3069 acts as the DP unit on northbound Tanker Train U261, seen here passing through the Mississippi Delta at Mileston, MS.

BNSF SD70MAC 9848 helps to push MSE C705 north out of Agricola, MS.

Morning fog slowly burns off as an eastbound KCS train enters Mississippi as it crosses its namesake river.

The GE and the Western Star. Meridian may be my favorite railfan spot in the Deep South. Here a brand spanking new municipal dump truck witnesses the arrival of a one-unit eastbound freight.

A westbound stack train is headed for the “Racetrack” to Texas.

CSX train X527 (Montgomery,AL - NOLA) makes good time crossing Bay St. Louis in its namesake town in southern Mississippi on CSX's NO&M Subdivision.

One of the longer flights I've done with my drone at almost 2,500ft. I was able to capture NS 201 coming into Burnsville this morning with 4 NS motors including NS 8105 trailing 4th.

Obviously renumbered not so long ago. Apparently the “self steering” GE trucks didn’t work out as the ES series has dropped them. I like that complicated look.

Yard switcher du jour.

Southbound NS mainline train meets KCS coming off the “Racetrack”

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