NS 137 takes a break as it continues to work the yard in Columbus, GA one afternoon. Today this manifest train is lead by the famous Southern heritage painted GEVO. The paint matches well with t... (more)

Southern still Serves the South
The 9475 shows off a recent Southern Railway decal placed underneath the road number on the engineer's side of the cab. Someone was mighty proud of thi... (more)

A tale of two cities
Settled in the 1830s, this small rural community is known by locals and smartphone maps as Gold Hill. This name was not chosen due to any of the shiny metal nearby... (more)

Colorful afternoon storm clouds fill the sky as the westbound moving train of 137 heads into Royal City with a classic Dash 9 leading the way. This 1999 built loco is still wearing the as deliver... (more)

For a moment as this westbound came through the interlocking, I thought I was capturing one of the rare loaded rock trains that happen to originate from one of the two quarries in Columbus. But as... (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)

The entirety of NS 137 is back on the move again after a brief stop at the Opelika interlocking to allow a 12K ton CSX Q606 to get through first. Having cleared the more)

Goodbye for now
It seemed like it would take forever for this train to finally leave Columbus after arriving there 7 hours earlier that afternoon. Any other train and I would have give... (more)

CSX wasn’t the only one to make changes to train schedules in my area during 2017. Management decided to cut the daily through trains off the CofG route and instead use it as an “as needed”... (more)

The Southern heritage unit has just completed its work at the Columbus yard across the Chattahoochee River in Georgia. Now on the Alabama side of the line, the specialty painted unit begins the j... (more)

Quite the assortment of paint schemes are present in Columbus today. From a KCS Southern Belle in the background to the actual Southern heritage unit at the front, a colorful collection of locomo... (more)

The second section of 336, calling itself W36 over the radio, is a lengthy one today with 4 units at the helm of the Macon bound mixed freight. A visiting BNSF AC4400 leads the train into Bleecke... (more)

Looking like it just came off of the assembly line, this EMD six axle leads NS train 137 through Opelika. The UP 9034 is less than a year old and likely on its maiden voyage atop the Central of G... (more)

Orion's Belt watches the action tonight as the Irondale bound NS 137 splits the signals at West Bleecker this evening in eastern Alabama.