A high and wide move with a PROLEC/GE transformer and pipes slowly approaches Chicopee while waiting for a signal indication to proceed north.

A late 153 accelerates from a meet with 290 at Chicopee, two miles to the north. Continuing the nationwide theme of interesting lashups, four BNSF motors are on the point of this Linwood to Birmin... (more)

NS 118 works north through Oakwood with a heavy train of south- and middle-Georgia raw materials and paper in tow. Storm clouds are covering much of north Georgia, making for quite the moody envir... (more)

NS P48 scoots through the curve at Chamblee Road between Oakwood and Flowery Branch. The leader was built for Burlington Northern in 1978 and picked up from NREX in the last year. In about a mile,... (more)

Still proudly wearing Cascade Green, ex-BN/HLCX, now NS SD40-2 3573 leads an early P11, the autorack local from Toyota in Commerce, GA to Atlanta. The 1980 EMD and an 80s D8-32B are kicking, doing... (more)

Charleston to Atlanta intermodal 237 rumbles through the quaint downtown area of Oakwood on a calm spring morning. The new(er) AC motor on the point assured there would be no trouble over the stee... (more)

A late NS 154 works through Oakwood, GA on a nasty, rainy, cold afternoon. Assisting the leader are a CN ex-BNSF C40-8W, BNSF ES44DC, and NS SD40-2. As the Canadian goes north, hopefully it will t... (more)

One of five trains on the district to have not-so-unusual BNSF power for the day, Birmingham-bound manifest 153 splits the signals in downtown Oakwood on the second full day of spring.

What has become a common site on the Piedmont, a trio of Union Pacific motors lead hotshot intermodal 212 through downtown Oakwood on a cold March morning.

Hotshot intermodal 204 has just met southbound manifest (typically light power here) 348 in Flowery Branch and is now accelerating on a clear signal at Grif. The Southern Railway signals are in gr... (more)

NS 912 heads North through Oakwood, GA with a my bud at the helm.

What is this flying white stuff? An uncommon sight to northeast Georgia, a decent snowfall fills the sky on a warmer-than-usual winter day. School let out about five minutes prior due to the possi... (more)

Gainesville to Flowery Branch local P48 eases down the steep grade leaving the PPG plant south of town. The duo of widecabs would hold at the switch and wait for the Charleston-bound intermodal 23... (more)

NS 153 passes Oakwood, GA with SD60 leading

On a foggy December evening, a green light beams from the southbound Southern Railway signal at Oakwood. As seen, its replacement is already up, obstructing the view, though still allowing us to w... (more)