Late evening shadows are quickly crawling over the rails of the old Southern Railway mainline as NS 213 comes around to Gainesville with the Erie heritage unit leading the way.

Cargill SD20 No. 610 is stored by the depot prior to delivery to the company's Gainesville plant, first needing to be towed to Lula and turned short hood south. It now resides at the plant as of t... (more)

A rugged ex-Santa Fe Warbonnet C44-9W leads hot intermodal 211 through the s-curves at Red Lane. Even splotched and faded, it's hard to beat the famed red, yellow, and silver.

Traditions: A family of passengers waiting for Amtrak's northbound Crescent to arrive, stand amongst the 1910 Southern Railway depot, which is still there to serve its purpose of acc... (more)

After some unwelcome thunderstorms in the area, the railroad is still hard at work in Gainesville as local G53 prepares to head south to work a few industries near Oakwood. The former BNSF SD70MAC... (more)

Running over two hours late, Amtrak's northbound Crescent makes its nightly station stop at Gainesville, Georgia with Amtrak's Phase I heritage unit in the lead.

A lone car disrupts the quiet stillness of a foggy evening while a pair of SD40-2s, of Conrail and N&W heritage, occupy the Cargill lead.

One of the 37 D9-40Cs active on the NS roster, NS 8835 and a visiting Canadian National SD70M-2 rest on a foggy evening in Gainesville.

A venerable SD40-2 on the GM interchange watches as 213 pierces through the fog at Midland after a meet with 172.

On a dreary January day, hotshot Croxton, NJ to Atlanta, GA intermodal 211 flies past the Southern Railway depot in Gainesville, GA with an ex-Conrail SD70 leading.

Rerouted from the North End, NS 175 gets back underway after stopping to pick up a couple items at the depot. The lead BNSF D9-44CW is passing 238, having just stopped as well.

In a scene right out of the heyday of passenger rail travel, restored Pullman sleeper "Dover Harbor" brings up the markers of the northbound Crescent on a quiet fall evening. The ... (more)

A fresh Union Pacific SD70AH makes for a welcome sight on the point of NS 203 as it leans into the superelevated s-curve at Red Lane, just north of Gainesville, GA.

NS 6587, the lowest-numbered SD60 built for NS and one of 47 still in active service, leads Charlotte-Atlanta intermodal 221 through the sweeping s-curve at Red Lane, on the north end of the doubl... (more)

While trailing locomotives are usually of little interest, this unique scenario was noteworthy. After experiencing brake issues on the way to Savannah, an OCS with a trio of F9s and five cars was ... (more)