A trio of various Norfolk Southern locomotives in an elephant style formation pull train 314 past the Magic City skyline and on towards the terminal point at Norris Yard.

Southern Style With their chores of picking up interchanged cars from CSX at the "high line" completed, local train AB46 rushes back to Norris yard running in true Southern fashion, long h... (more)

NS 6617, sans thoroughbred nose logo, and sister unit NS 6618 pass the Southern cantilever signal as the train of empty gondolas prepares to head onto the NS/West End District to deliver these gon... (more)

A silver and green CITX leaser and BC Rail cowl body locomotive break the mundane scene of NS Dash 9 lead trains and take part in today’s NS 367 as the freight puts its train away in one of the 12... (more)

A Southern Belle sandwich pulls the always exciting NS 339 freight train into downtown Birmingham with the illustrious Sloss Furnaces defining the background. This is the Railroad: Kansas City Southern Railway
Locomotive: EMD SD70ACe
Location: Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: KCS 4029
Train ID: NS 339
Photo Date: October 15, 2011

With their work of dropping off empty autoracks for the local Mercedes plant complete, 27A heads back to Norris as light engines albeit with the addition of one SD40-2 recently painted into the ne... (more)

The results of an Amtrak collision with a truck from April 20th of this year await pick up by the CSX in Birmingham as some of the prominent buildings from downtown can be seen in the background. ... (more)

A long NS 183 glides underneath the 24th street bridge with a repainted ex-Conrail unit pulling it’s train today while passing the historic Sloss Furnaces on the left.

As A55 gets a green light towards Meridian on the right, today’s AB29 is lead by the former N&W 6085 running the way she was intended, Long Hood Forward. This unit is one of 13 locomotives rebuil... (more)

Amtrak 80 and sister locomotive 187 hitch a ride on NS 314 as the damaged units head toward Norris and a possible journey to the Amtrak Locomotive shop in Chicago. These units were involved in a ... (more)

NS 393 starts the slow trek out of Birmingham as it prepares for a meet with NS 182 on a cool December day in the Magic Cit... (more)

After departing Norris Yard nearly 30 minutes earlier, one of latest Southern Belle painted 70MACs leads the Shreveport bou... (more)

A pair of GP38-2s power today’s BNSF transfer train as it prepares to couple back onto its train in track 2 of North Yard. The 2009 was originally built for the Penn Central in 1968 as a GP40 but... (more)

Just in Time The Mercedes train, NS 22R heads through the city of Birmingham and meets CSX mixed freight Q689 at just the right moment to capture both trains in one shot.

Today's 22G is brought through Woodlawn Junction with a brand new Union Pacific GEVO running on pure imagination.