A colorful consist with a grey leader got me out of the house with my 2 & 4 year old kids. Luckily the train kept rolling so no time for boredom to take hold.

Not quite a heritage unit, or much to celebrate, but UP 7496 is the 5000th Evolution Series locomotive produced by General Electric.

NS 66M has just left CP Baggett at Villa Rica after getting a new crew, and got the train up to speed quickly as it passed me here near CP Carroll.

These motors are used to running huge trains on CN and they were put to the test on NS's mountainous East End District. After picking up racks at Honda in Lincoln, AL, the train was 50 tons below... (more)

Norfolk Southern Intermodal Train 226 makes their way Eastbound as they roar through Villa Rica, GA.

The Southern Railway lives on. This 41 year old high hood GP38-2 leads NS train #153 (Linwood,NC - Birmingham,AL) through the terrain of west Georgia running long hood forward just as the train go... (more)

A BC Rail unit leads NS stack train 24E east through the Georgia pines and kudzu at Villa Rica.

Norfolk Southern Intermodal Train 220 is seen here making their way Eastbound as they pass through Villa Rica, GA. The HWY to the left is HWY 78

The Norfolk Southern OCS slices through the small town of Villa Rica

Pool power from Mexico powers this afternoons NS #172.

NS 226 with UP runthrough power meets empty autorack train 25G-20. While only 30 miles west of Atlanta, there is no doubt that we are in the foothills of the Appalachians.

Extra train I20 is a seemingly regular Tuesday train, with only a single Dallas-Atlanta intermodal. I20 is 100% Mexico intermodal headed for Atlanta, Charlotte & Greencastle as part of the new KC... (more)

A weathered station sign places this train on NS, near the end of it's Long Beach to Atlanta trip in 1x1 configuration.

A crew dog catches an intermodal, until operations gets the new service plan worked out at the McCalla, AL intermodal terminal.

Most likely comandeered off an export coal train at Long Beach for its DPU capability, an aging UP 7199 demonstrates the flexibility of heavy haul AC units, leading a 1x1 international stack train... (more)