It is hard to believe that Southeast Mississippi would be home to some of the last Conrail Dash 7 units in existence. Proudly displaying Conrail Quality on her nose, Meridian Southern 4039 waits ... (more)

A very tired looking General Electric locomotive built in the 1970s is leading a short train of grain hoppers bound for the large grain facility in Waynesboro, Mississippi. This unit served on bo... (more)

The 5,000th Evolution Series locomotive built by GE leads a southbound bound mixed freight past the Meridian Amtrak station on a pleasant Sunday morning. The train has a just been refueled and wi... (more)

Here CN C704 (BNSF coal to Plant Daniel on the Mississippi Export) is seen crossing a small trestle just south of CN’s Hattiesburg Bell Yard.

Trading the snow for humidity. You might think this former Conrail unit is sitting in the weeds waiting for scrap but you would be wrong. This is one of the handful of old GE Dash 7 locomotives ... (more)

Two Rare Old Baldwin DRS 6-4-1500 unit sit at the roads Columbus Mississippi shops Rust was the main color on these units by this time. A face only a mother could love perhaps but i like the ... (more)

The northbound Crescent has traveled about 200 miles from New Orleans to make a station stop in downtown Meridian, Mississippi. Both Norfolk Southern and Kansas City Southern put a halt to their ... (more)

Here northbound BNSF coal MSE C705 is seen heading north into Agricola, MS on the Mississippi Export RR (MSE) after unloading its 135 cars at Plant Daniel in Helena, MS.

Side shot of the cab of the former CN C40-8 that is now painted in Rock Island Rail Red & Yellow scheme. They still have to apply the speed lettering on the sides.

The former CN C40-8 is now painted in Rock Island Rail Red & Yellow scheme. They still have to apply the speed lettering on the sides.

After cutting off from the rest of their train, the Kansas City Southern SHAR (Shreveport, LA-Artesia, MS) job backs into the small KCS yard in Meridian to pull out a cut of crude oil tank cars. ... (more)

A former Frisco unit is all that can be found in the small Kansas City Southern yard in downtown Meridian on a pleasant, early May morning. This locomotive was built in 1979 and worked for the Fr... (more)

A westbound Kansas City Southern mixed freight rolls through the kudzu covered terrain in downtown Vicksburg, Mississippi. Kudzu, which was introduced to the United States from Japan in 1876, is ... (more)

A unit coal train bound for Louisiana gets ready to head south after meeting a northbound intermodal. Many of the coal trains on the former Illinois Central come out of Wyoming's Powder River Bas... (more)

A Chicago bound Canadian National intermodal works his way through the Mississippi Delta on a seasonable Saturday morning. This daily train originates in New Orleans, Louisiana and works Jackson,... (more)