Norfolk Southern's Illinois Terminal Heritage Locomotive #1072 leads Train 186 East as they cross the Tallapoosa River in Tallapoosa, GA.

A UP stack train coming from LA to Atlanta passes a Norfolk Southern manifest.

Kansas City Southern's "Veterans Unit" breaks the still of the night as it leads Norfolk Southern train 219 past a well-placed roadside decoration in Tallapoosa, Georgia.

21R was the northbound version of the second pair of Atlanta-Memphis intermodals, before 201 became a direct Harrisburg-Memphis train. A Warbonnet SD75I was a treat on this day's train.

As dignitaries from KCS and NS inspect the route over a two day period from Shreveport to Atlanta, photographers inspected the OCS train and locations it passed through as in the case with this sc... (more)

After completing an eastbound inspection trip of the "Meridian Speedway" from Shreveport to Atlanta, Kansas City Southern's "Southern Belle" office car train deadheads back wes... (more)

NS train 088, the KCS OCS, passes under the Southern era cantilever signal bridge at Tallapoosa as they head for Atlanta. The KCS OCS, which at this point is now making only its second ever appear... (more)

Gradients of green cause my gaw to gurgitate... no guff.

With the last of fall's colors still on the trees, a freak early December snow storm dumped 12" of snow west of Atlanta. Here, local crew A25-09 has re-crewed the hottest train on the railro... (more)

The New York Central is Honoring Our Veterans on this excellent Macon, GA-Birmingham, AL manifest, curving through the goldenrod near the Alabama border.

Three dirty Belles, who've been ridden hard and put up wet south of the border, throttle up a hot UPS intermodal for Atlanta.

A single GMTX SD60 leads Norfolk Southern Loaded Rail Train 912 West through Tallapoosa, GA.

NS 153 blasts though Tallapoosa, GA with NS 7331 leading, still wearing its CEFX leasing paint.

NS SD80MAC #7203 leads eastbound Norfolk Southern intermodal train #24E through the Wills Road grade crossing at the entrance to Tally Valley Golf Course in Tallapoosa, Georgia, milepost 694 of NS... (more)