Having spent the entire weekend in this spot at the North End of West Point siding, the Spirit of Magnolia continues to sit patiently this afternoon. It's not alone though, since there are numero... (more)

The A&WP local has called the Cusseta siding home for tonight as its train of 3 cars and 2 locomotives relax under the stars and relative silence found here.

Having completed their work for the week, local train A746 idles on the siding track in Notasulga on a clear night. Just like the moving stars overhead, this power would soon be rotated out a wee... (more)

It's easy to tell which wheel set is the newer one on this car. The previous set was tagged by a wayside defect detector for a hotbox and thus resulted in this car being set out at the West Point... (more)

A plethora of railroad locomotives are seen at the BNSF’s Denver shops on a bitterly cold February afternoon. Besides the photographer, even a few units from the Southeast are here this day.

The DRIR 1083 has just dropped off two loads of steel to the CMC Banner Rebar customer. Now this former SP switcher will push their empty gondola across Franklin Street which cautions cyclists to... (more)

The engineer of today's Q617 gives a friendly wave as he leads his standard cab Dash 8 wearing the new boxcar logo through the s-curves at Cusseta. The 78 cars and 2 locomotives lean into the sup... (more)

With any new merger comes the option of choosing a symbol to represent the new company, which is exactly what the newly created Norfolk Southern decided to do in 1982. A horse was chosen over the... (more)

The typically night time running Q600 makes a rare daylight appearance as it rolls into Opelika with 50 cars in tow. Even more exciting than catching this train in the day is seeing it being pull... (more)

Still painted in the original owner's Cascade green scheme, this ex-Burlington Northern SD60M which has been residing in the state of Colorado since 2014 patiently awaits the next train to move.

A Helm Financial Corp leaser pulls A050 this afternoon as the train of 48 ballast hoppers heads south after dropping rock earlier in the day. Soon this aggregate train will come to a stop as it t... (more)

52 cars of sand make up today’s K736 as heads north through the city of Opelika passing the remains of a former Western Railway of Alabama coaling tower that presently resides here.

The power for the A746 local has run out of time this day since it had to sit in the West Point siding for a meet with S678 and Q617 before it could attempt to runaround it's train. This unexpect... (more)

Idling in the desolate area of Milstead, a pair of YN2 painted Dash 8 standard cab locomotives stand guard with their load of new ties as they await this week's unloading along the mainline.

Q619 follows on the heals of L679 as it heads past the signal that controls the north end of Gabbettville siding. This train and the one ahead of it will make a quick meet with a northbound empty... (more)