Cooler temperatures=more coal. As Winter approaches, coal fired power plants in Florida are working to increase their stockpile of black diamonds. Today's coal train originated on the Evansville... (more)

Not sure why but the Heart of Georgia decided to run their SAM Shortline excursion train with the locomotive running long hood forward. The train is getting ready to run a rare mileage trip durin... (more)

My favorite Fs, configured with roof tanks to allow extra capacity for passenger service.

An older Dash 9 and a recent AC44C6M rebuild pull a train of colorful containers across the NS/CSX/HOG diamond in downtown Cordele. Interesting to note the cantilever signal still retains the old... (more)

The power leading a short Georgia Division local is running Southern style as he passes under the signal that guards the north end of Cordele siding. The crew is about to run around their two car... (more)

L&N SD40-2s head for coal country with a train of empties returning from Florida.

Hotshot Intermodal Q025 rumbles South to Jacksonville, Fl.

CSX K201-21, empty phosphate bound for Mulberry, Florida, blasts at track speed over the hogbacks that frequent this part of Georgia. The Fitzgerald Sub of CSX is one of the most varied lines as f... (more)

Originally SAL, with the Hancock air whistle still in place, long after its days as a passenger unit ended.

NS 330 rolls northbound at Old Hatley Road in Cordele with the Norfolk Southern Virginian Heritage SD70ACE leading.

Finished with switching at the paper mill east of town, two ex-NS units with tastefully chopped noses struggle with the days produce heading for their small yard.

CSX Q026 the hotshot UPS train flies north at Cape Road near Cordele with the CSX 911 first responders leading the train north to Chicago/Bedford Park, Illinois.

A solid string of Fs on SCL was rather odd even in those days. Here a northbound freight of the former ACL, ex AB&C crosses over Southern's GS&F line. Former Seaboard Savannah-Montgomery line di... (more)

Heart of Georgia 2038 and highhood Georgia Central 1713 sit locked up and secured as the crew went to grab a lunch while waiting on CSX to arrive in town to switch interchange.

It was a nice surprise to see the Norfolk Southern Veteran's Unit leading unit rock train 62J. You could tell the train was loaded as both units were in notch 8!