It’s another Friday in May and another chance to see a Canadian visitor leading M526. The clouds have opened at just the right time to catch this Canuck and the intermodal loads it’s pulling ... (more)

A pair of Canadian National units leads the daily Waycross to New Orleans manifest train M601 through the quiet community of Cusseta with 127 cars. To the left is a remnant of the code line pole ... (more)

Canadian Pacific locomotives pull today’s U844 (an extra L844) up to the highest point on the former Western Railway of Alabama mainline in Opelika. This handoff train from the CPKC to CSX via ... (more)

An afternoon running Q601 comes into view as it rounds the large curve on the north side of Opelika. A surprising pair of Canadian National visitors lead the way with over 7500 tons of freight, m... (more)

It’s a gorgeous morning as the second section of 186 (M86) glides into Salem and past the unique antiques store next to the tracks with a pair of KCS locomotives. The caboose in the back is a fo... (more)

A trio of BNSF locomotives pull today's Q610 manifest train into the super-elevated s-curves of Cusseta as they head north one morning. Seeing BNSF power on this portion of the former Western Rai... (more)

Two unit trains are passing each other as they roll through the control point of JR Mapp this morning. The unit train on the left is that of Q220 with empty auto racks heading for the nearby Kia ... (more)

The BNSF intermodal train of Q185 is taking a detour route today as it travels atop former Western Railway of Alabama tracks on its journey to the more)

What's in a name
Freight train 186 is only 316 miles from Savannah as proclaimed by the Central of Georgia mile post numbering on this present day NS owned mainline. Although the name... (more)

One fifth of the PRLX SD70MAC leaser fleet being utilized by NS is at the front of train 137 as the 6200 foot long freight train slowly treks through Opelika. The long length today is quite a cha... (more)

Although it looks like it might have come out of the GE plant in Erie last week, this AC4400 was actually built in May of 1997 for the UP. The fresh coat of armour yellow and Harbormist gray stan... (more)

Intermodal trains like Q184 are still on the move this day as the expansion project at CSX’s Fairburn Intermodal Terminal is nearly complete. The 8 loading/unloading tracks on the east side of t... (more)

It’s a bright and sunny October morning as Q572 negotiates the super elevated s-curves just north of Cusseta with a Union Pacific pai... (more)

Lite power in the form of Union Pacific units, with a very weather beaten one up front, head south after dropping off their train of empty auto racks at the Kia plant in West Point.

Intermodal train R105 makes a surprise run on the A&WP as it headed south from the Fairburn ramp towards New Orleans. This train would continue to run under the id of X105 along the Panhandle rou... (more)