T31 soars over one of the many small valleys between Canton and Asheville on a perfectly clear December day. The train is almost back to its home terminal and has a good string of loaded cars in t... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound Capitol Limited crests the grade at Sand Patch on CSX's Keystone Subdivision on its scenic trip from Chicago, IL to Washington, D.C.

After heavy rains swept over the foothills region of North Georgia for the seventh straight day, southbound NS train 237 is about to throttle out of a slow order at Allen, the CP that controls the... (more)

With 105 loads, Wentz to Norton mine run U49 comes off of the former Interstate Railroad Stonega Branch at Mudlick Junction.

JTCX 5809 cuts away from 5711 and train to allow for the necessary switching moves to get both units and the three passenger cars in their correct spots for the Streamliners at Spencer event.

A Cascade Green SD40-2 leads CSX Gainesville-Pendergrass local train A756-24 as they switch out Ampco Products. Moments later, a trainmaster told me I had to leave public property, citing that I w... (more)

On the last weekend of operations on the ex-Virginian Princeton-Deepwater District, a single hill run operated between Elmore and Princeton with two engines out front and 100 loads behind. Here, t... (more)

Stone Mountain FP7 6147 (formerly SOU 6147 and 3499 while a member of the "Fab 5") is on the point of Train 100, which sits on the mainline after its brake test and before the public tri... (more)

Late in the evening, an older Union Pacific GE leads Atlanta-Charleston, SC intermodal train 238 up the Greenville District of NS's Piedmont Division. The train will stop in a mile or so at the no... (more)

An increasingly-rare YN2 CSX GP38-2 leads an ex-NS GP38-2 south at East Point as another NS local powered by an ex-SOU MP15DC sits north of the control point waiting to come south, cross over, and... (more)

NS 17M starts downgrade at the west end of the Elkhorn Tunnel with 10 engines and 18 cars in the consist.

On Halloween 2015, Amtrak's Autumn Leaf Excursion chugs up the Southern Loops in Old Fort, NC on the westbound leg of the trip between Spencer and Asheville. Twenty-seven cars were on the train.

Stone Mountain FP7 6147's unmistakable streamlined face sticks out on the point of Train 100, which will operate around the massive granite rock all day. Fittingly, the railroad is nicknamed "... (more)

CSX coal drag U848 departs the Cumberland Terminal with two GE units on the point. Amazingly to those of us from the south, only these two units will pull the loads eastward with no problems.

The R&N's Minersville Job sits beside CNJ 113 and an observation car at the Minersville station. With all of its work on the Minersville Running Track complete, the train will soon pull south towa... (more)