Knocking down the southend signal, three General Electric CSX engines roar through a grade crossing in the cool night air with Jacksonville, FL bound containers.

Passing through the grade crossing at Chestnut St, CSX engine #460 will make the first clank of many more as its wheels begin to hit the frog of the southend turnout.

Autoracks glide along with a pair of CSX blue and gold locomotives, while encountering a tied down empty ballast train during their trip south through Roanoke.

A Union Pacific SD70ACe maneuvers steadily over foreign rails with 6,000 feet of train and a fresh crew at its controls.

An extremely long Q647 (11,394 feet to be exact), comes to a halt midways through Roanoke resulting from a faulty engine.

A blur of Q237 streaks by on the mainline as a loaded MOW equipment train with a single CSX DC unit, idles the night hours away while waiting for a new day and its next assignment.

Behind three BNSF locos, a stacked Q185 hurries south with its cargo while another intermodal train follows only a few miles back.

Being one of two locomotives to get refueled, CSXT #4577 only gets the leftovers. Taking the bulk of fuel available to fill the belly of partner CSXT engine #8502, (receiving 2,000 gallons) the M... (more)

Since hanging around the Roanoke area for over a week now, the two CSX EMDs assigned to work a crosstie train, finally get some fuel after patiently waiting for hours... The crew was relieved to ... (more)

While a clear signal beckons a southbound hot intermodal train on the mainline, a clean repainted MAC awaits its next job with a load of crossties in the Roanoke siding.

After a day of unloading crossties, a couple of EMDs cool off in the Roanoke siding on a cold night. Tomorrow will be another day with the same duties until all the ties have been removed.

Splitting between the columns of an old wooden bridge, a BNSF "Credit User" locomotive commands the southbound autorack train S237 through Roanoke with authority. A total of two BNSF en... (more)

There has been a lot of rail being replaced lately over the Lineville Subdivision. A curfew has keep most action coming through late in the evening and at night...One of the rail trains block a g... (more)

Just 10 cars make up the local A720 on this beautiful morning. The diesel engine in this four axel EMD locomotive, idles smoothly awaiting the arrival of a crew to get it underway to work Mohawk ... (more)

Pulling 62 autoracks, two CSX GE locomotives carry automobiles south on the daily ran Q237 through the city of Roanoke, AL.