The L&N heritage leads a freight over former L&N trackage, past the now vibrant downtown of Marietta, GA.

The RF&P heritage is rolling over the SAL's former Atlanta-Birmingham mainline, as evidenced by the CWR and concrete crossties on the now little used siding. Unfortunately, the locomotive is the ... (more)

Train M64805 stopped their DPU, in Operation Lifesaver Paint, at the perfect location for a meet with two southbounds. The clouds cooperated on both, with North Baltimore, OH-Jacksonville, FL I14... (more)

After taking hours to escape the black hole of NS' Atlanta Terminal, a "Grinstein Green" MAC catches the last rays of sun, showing off it's retro Burlington Northern nose logo.

With a gravity dump and pressure differential covered hopper of ground calcium carbonate (marble) and a hopper of marble rock ahead of United Alloy Corporation airplane parts, a freshly painted Pa... (more)

CPKC isn't my favorite railroad right now... from a work perspective the "merger" has been anything but seamless for Sales & Marketing. But their Heritage & Military paint schemes are v... (more)

A Chicago-Waycross freight passes the Marietta Confederate Cemetery. Illinois became a state well before the Civil War and, a few miles to west on Kennesaw Mountain, there is a monument to the so... (more)

The first of two southbound Georgia Northeastern trains this day, a Universal Alloy Corporation special brings extruded aluminum airplane parts destined to the PNW for Boeing.

At or above max tonnage, GNRR Job 102 is down to walking speed up one of many steep grades. Not much has changed since the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad laid down rails with minimal enginee... (more)

The Chessie Heritage Motor leads a Rockmart grainer past Georgia Power's Plant Bowen. At one time, Bowen was the largest coal fired power plant in the US. According to a 2020 ranking, with closu... (more)

Normally returning from CSX early morning, G74 is very late and just shoving through the connection into CSX Howells Yard. The old Atlanta Stockyards are above the train, now call the "Goa... (more)

The Original Gangster Heritage curves into North Conley, where it'll take the siding for an empty coal.

Job 103 shoves up the Georgia Northeastern switch backs, after pulling to marble loads from Georgia Marble Company - Polycor Natural Stone plant east of Tate.

Faded Armour Yellow leads a Norfolk Southern intermodal.

Terain not unlike the Lehigh Valley, a Macon, GA to Elkhart, IN freight rolls through the Piedmont of North Georgia.