Rare visitor to Texas on a shortline RR. Union Pacific empty oil train from St. James LA to Ft Worth TX with 2 BNSF and 1 NS COG Heritage engines. FWWR took the train to Granbury and after cutting... (more)

NS 65R heads across the beautiful Sawatra Stone arch Creek bridge on the Royalton branch with C of G 8101, the Central of Georgia heritage unit leading the Empty oil loads back to the Oilfields of... (more)

The C of G heritage unit leads an empty oil train west by the signals at MP 340.

NS Central of Georgia heritage unit leads the Empty oil westbound as she exits the west portal of the allegheny tunnel on tunnel hill

The crab apples are in bloom in Marietta, PA

The Central of Georgia heritage unit, along with SD70ACe 1037 and the Nickel Plate Road heritage unit, works downgrade and around track one on the world famous Horseshoe Curve near Altoona, PA, w... (more)

Two heritage units for an oil train: Central of Georgia 8101, NS 1037, and Nickel Plate Road 8100 leads train 64R across Shermans Creek in Duncannon, with another train full of North Dakota Bakken... (more)

The CofG heritage unit hangs out by the turntable.

At the end of its run from Ohio to Florida, the Central of Georgia heritage unit is seen at the Florida East Coast Railroad's yard in Jacksonville. FEC locomotives will couple to the inbound 229'... (more)

Engineer Frueh pulls the 6336' Mitchell, IL to Manitou, ND empty oil can out of the Crude Staging Yard and meets the CP Transfer which has shoved out of the transfer track with a Soo Line caboose ... (more)

NS 8101 crosses high above the frozen tundra on the Gassman Coulee Trestle.

The day after my birthday BNSF called a Manitou empty out of Minot with NS 8101 leading... Can't beat it!

NS 8101 - the Central of Georgia heritage unit - zips through Hoffman Avenue with empty oil cars heading for North Dakota.

Norfolk Southern 8101, the Central of Georgia heritage unit, sweeps through the big curve near Manitoba Jctn with a long string of empty crude oil tanks.

Crude oil loads are becoming very common on the staples sub. Since several terminate on the east coast, NS visitors are becoming more and more common, in fact, some people are saying NS power is ... (more)