NS 2730 waits at KC Junction to enter BNSF trackage for the trip to IC Xing and then on to CN's Johnston Yard with the IC transfer run.

The view of CSX's Leewood Yard, in North Memphis, from my Northwest Airlines flight as we prepare to land at MEM.

Empty and loaded coal trains meet at the diamond of the IC's Memphis Sub.

The late afternoon sun shines on the DPU unit (BNSF 5686) of loaded coal C JRMMHS0 32A as it crosses under the signal bridge at the CN crossing of Broadway.

A loaded coal train for the NS, C JRMMHS0 32A, passes a freight leaving the NS, UP MMEPBB, near the closed crossing at Kentucky Street.

The NS 391 has now become the UP MMEPBB as it leaves the NS main and slips onto the UP main at the CN crossing on Broadway with NS 9462 out front.

A BNSF Birmingham to Kansas City freight, H BIRKCK1 25A, passes under the new signal bridge at the CN crossing on Broadway. Soon the stop signs will be gone and the signals will be operational.

An empty coal train, BNSF E MHDBTM0 21A, comes off the CN Memphis Sub and rounds the curve on the BNSF Thayer South Sub under the new signal bridge west of Kentucky Street. The BNSF Police in the ... (more)

IC 2712 (in CN colors) and the black SD70 IC 1004 hold the main at Hollywood Yard as they wait for the CSX dispatcher to give the OK to proceed south. CSX controls the shared track from Leewood to... (more)

GTW 4995 works as the Hollywood Yard job in North Memphis.

The 202 has picked up a little speed now as it crosses over Moss Road at Poplar Avenue in East Memphis.

An eastbound NS intermodal crosses through the campus of the University of Memphis as it passes the 545 milepost.

The MEMHOU train heads into the late afternoon sun as it approaches the Frisco Bridge. This train will switch to UP rails once in Arkansas (trackage rights) to make its way to Houston.

Holding up in the warbonnet colors, BNSF 754 brings the Memphis-Houston train under the new signal bridge near Kentucky Street on the Thayer South Sub.

A tired looking former Conrail GP40 works the NS yard in Memphis as job AE20.