The race is on for these three units to bring another 110 coal cars back to Madisonville, KY for more loads. All 458 axles quickly clank over the switch, making way for another northbound only mi... (more)

Riding the rails as train L185-11 on this beautiful day, this double stack cargo and BNSF power will have clear track all the way through LaGrange, GA. After a meet in Hogansville, GA with auto t... (more)

Stacks of intermodal containers roll through Standing Rock with a clean BNSF GEVO C4 unit leading the way. The center axle of each truck on these models are unpowered. So there is only two tracti... (more)

CSX's Derby Special is seen at the North End of Standing Rock, Alabama passing the old GRS search lights of the Atlantic Coast Line era with carrier's first pair of F40s. (Slide Scan)

On the last day of June, CSX train Q185 enters Standing Rock with containers bound for Fairburn Intermodal Terminal.

Wasting no time picking up speed, a stack train (operating as S184 today) blows through the grade crossing on the northend of Standing Rock with BNSF power. Nearly all 96 well cars are loaded wit... (more)

Keeping it moving with a clear signal, (Waycross,GA - Nashville, TN) train Q514 rolls pass an intermodal train in the siding with 225 freight cars. Locomotives and cars combined make a total of 9... (more)

Most of the CSX Q180 series trains run with BNSF power, but normally GE locomotives are always used. Operating only once weekly, today Q182 pulls out of the siding onto the main with EMD power on... (more)

WHOOPS!!.... No traction!... A combination of steel wheels, massive weight, and locomotive power has created an imperfection to the rail head. It can take only a brief absence of traction (especi... (more)

More loads of coal are bound for Big Bend, FL behind an Evolution Series locomotive fully in command and two older AC units. The Big Bend Power Station meets strict environmental regulations and ... (more)

Tons of coal move behind the power of a CSX ET44 unit and a couple of veterans. Sometimes running with two engines up front and a DPU on the rear, today its configuration has all power on the hea... (more)

Clean orange paint on the lead BNSF Tier 4 engine, shines bright as its crew hustles containers on (260) axles south over the long straight at the Rock. Today this trains id is CSX Q185, but a fe... (more)

Gliding south from the rock, coal loads are being escorted to their destination by three CSX General Electric engines. The third (CSXT #711) serves as a DPU on the rear 110 cars back.

Today the daily operation of Q513 (Avon, IN - Waycross, GA) is running as S513-30 with 144 cars and two Union Pacific locomotives providing the power. Now rolling south over the rails into Standi... (more)

Rushing through the cold morning air CSX AC powered engine #302, travels the mainline on a long section of straight track with 152 followers copying their leaders every move since departing Birmi... (more)