Hot Tier 4 action on 90 cars of chicken chow.

SD40-2's in DPU helper sets have been rare on the W&A, but luckily I caught this one giving an assist to a NB coal empty passing the 1910 built depot.

CSX southbound Q211 makes its way up the grade between Moon and Kennesaw as northbound Q582 waits on track 1.

CSX C709 heads south for Fairburn up the hill through Kennesaw.

Q647 heads south climbing the grade in Kennesaw with a recently reactivated C40-9W, originally a C44-8W that was essentially a demo unit for the Dash 9 series locomotive, on the point.

Even before I had speedlites, I knew that this shot was one I would want to try if I ever got them. X541 with a rebuilt SD70MAC & CM44AC combo woulds provide for an interesting power consist for m... (more)

Q581 begins the climb to Elizabeth as it heads to Atlanta. Thanks to the ever growing suburban scene in Atlanta, & in this case Western Cobb County, new houses & neighborhoods are popping up like ... (more)

K445 climbs the hill at Kennesaw as it heads south for Florida with some CN power up front on the morning of Thanksgiving, 2020.

Q581 (left) meets an 11,000 ft Q582 in the morning mist on the double track through town. Good news for rush hour motorists needing to use often blocked Cherokee Street, 582 is holding short.

CSX isn't the only one rebuilding their older AC4400's as Canadian Pacific began to do so in 2018. Here, we see AC4400CWM 8076, formerly 9551, leading K443 north of Kennesaw. Much like the CSX mod... (more)

CSX W083, a company service ballast train is freshly loaded at Kennesaw, Georgia in December of 2003. (Slide Scan)

Looking pretty shabby with 20 year old paint, the leader would be one of the relatively few C40-8s repainted into the YN3 scheme prior to lease return.

With a solo Tier 4 EMD on the point, K811 rounds the curve in Kennesaw on track 1 as they head south for Florida.

SD40-2's 8016 & 8004 lead Q211 south up the grade through Kennesaw, GA. Just when I thought that the show they put on pulling out of Emerson was good, they managed to top it going through here tha... (more)

In the surprise of the week for Georgia Railfans, Q541 had one of the 10 tier 4 EMD's that CSX owns on the point. Having been caught by surprise at the news that one of them got out of Florida, I ... (more)