"The Local" pulls two sugar cane syrup tank cars from Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida. Growing up in Michigan, I likely rode in this locomotive at some point, it being a forme... (more)

The rest of the GNRR's power handling the southbound road freight and necessitated splitting up 30 loads of corn interchanged from CSX. Here the first 15 loads cross over very light COVID-19 rus... (more)

An Operation Lifesaver SD40 leads T88 across the Tennessee River to drop cars on the old Chattanooga Traction spur.

The daily local to Waynesville returns to Canton after switching out Evergreen Packaging's bleachboard coating mill in Waynesville, NC.

A dry rock empty phosphate takes the Yeoman By-Pass around Yeoman Yard, where the Tropicana local O82326 has just tied down in track 5.

An empty wet rock train returns to the Bone Valley. The 22 year old paint on the 307 hasn't held up well in the Florida sun, but I'll still take a faded YN2 over later schemes.

Job 74 returns from NS Simpson Yard with a cut of racks & intermodal, crossing the St Johns River in the shadow of CSX's Headquarters.

Q455 passes an ACL whistle post in the tree tunnels of South Georgia. I'm not sure what happened to the nose, but hopefully the shop was more skilled at welding than painting.

Making good time from Charleston, SC; train 237 catches the low light of a beautiful fall evening in the suburbs of Atlanta.

A short intermodal flies through Suwanee, GA. Suwanee has been a top rated town in multiple polls, the well kept grass right up to the ballast just one indicator of how things are managed.

The Savannah & Atlanta Heritage Unit leads a Charlotte to Memphis/BNSF intermodal past dimensional train 052 22 with what I believe is a Siemens steam turbine.

Ex-PRSL displays its extended cab to house the dual control stands, as Job 103 sands the rails climbing one of the many grades.

An extra "intermodal" with 94 cars of freight off 177 12 & 177 13 drags through the mountains north of Chattanooga on its way Danville, KY to Atlanta, GA.

A loaded grainer rolls through the interesting trackage & topography of the 'carpet capitol of the world'.

An almost unadulterated EJ&E SD38 heads north the the NS interchange on the Great Walton/Hartwell RR.