Southbound on Main Street, downtown Memphis.

Lots of power on the front of the UP MNLMED 17 today.

Another loaded coal train from the Powder River Basin rolls through Memphis on its' way to The Scherer Plant near Atlanta.

Snow has fallen in Memphis and finds a little sweeping necessary to clear the frozen stuff from the switch. This area is known as Broadway. The tracks belong to, from left to right, BNSF (2), NS (... (more)

An unusual snowfall hits Memphis in early March.

A slew of assorted power parked at BNSF's Tennessee Yard.

Taking advantage of a photography gig from a helicopter, I got this shot from about 500 feet over BNSF's Tennessee Yard.

An overall look at probably the newest station in the Amtrak network, known simply as "MEJ". A large sinkhole just south of Central Station has forced the City of New Orleans onto the normally fr... (more)

DPU BNSF 6160 pushes on a coal train, the head end is already in Arkansas across the Mississippi River

UP 1832 Leads a freight off the Mississippi River bridge into Memphis, Tn.

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IC 6134, in CN colors, makes the turn at CN Junction heading for home at Johnston Yard with this transfer train from BNSF's Tennessee Yard on the other side of town.

A reliable find in the afternoons is the intermodal transfer from the Norfolk Southern to the UP. Here NS 225 has changed hands and become UP ZNSLC with NS engine 8780 out front.

A big and boxy ACe unit, UP 8430, heads west with intermodal train ZNSLC as it passes under the signals at CN Junction.

BNSF autotrain V BIRLPC8 22K heads west on Main 2 of the Thayer South Sub with BNSF 5518 on the point.