A mixed freight rolls Westbound along a very glassy Nickajack Lake on a early sunny Saturday morning

M574 squeezes by the Monday morning traffic in La Grange.

CSX M574 navigates the street running segment through downtown La Grange on a busy morning with an autonomous track assessment car (ATAC) second out. These boxcars have been retrofitted with inspe... (more)

First southbound of the morning.

Coal empties heading north. Coal drag Detours over the River Sub may continue well into the Fall months.

Rolling downhill, UP 2681 holds back an eastbound.

And now back to GEs leading CSX trains. But in a new location, for me.

No, the Overland Route is not quadruple-tracking. With the length of trains they run these days, the train count has shrunk. That fourth line is the lead to the ballast plant at Granite. I actuall... (more)

Climbing up the first couple hundred of feet out of Cheyenne, the tracks bend north briefly to duck under I-80 before bending west into the setting sun.

CSX E905 in Waxhaw

A variety of freight cars carrying different commodities, roll into Standing Rock with one leader and one DPU. Hanging out near mid-train is CSXT #1982 the Seaboard System heritage unit.

Walbridge, Ohio to Baldwin, Florida manifest freight M209 is seen departing Kayne Avenue after a crew change in Downtown Nashville.

Union Pacific, UP 2650 leads an E/B Intermodal just west of Huntington, OR on the La Grande Sub on March 9, 2018 with UP 6271 & 4191. This intermodal is working downgrade into Huntington.

Having just come down the connection onto the NS Pesident St Branch, C748 rolls down the Trappe track as it ducks under the CSX Sparrows Point Industrial Track.

Multi-Track Action | Passing two other trains, right, going the opposite direction, a CSX manifest train heading north through downtown Atlatna approaches Howell Yard on a cloudy Saturday, ... (more)