You never know what you might find in the brush. This coal trestle is all that is left of the former Athens Gas & Fuel Co. The area between the former Georgia Railroad yard and the CofG was once f... (more)

This is the end, my only friend the end. My first and only visit to the Covington Branch of the Great Walton on the last day of operation. The two CSX locomotives on the Georgia Railroad ma... (more)

Reminders of a different era. The railroad Gulch was once the heart of southeast railroads, with two large passenger stations and miles of rail. Today 50 or more trains still pass through but the ... (more)

Rusted orange Hartwell 454 is a rare bird, one of the few surviving SD7's and the only one in Georgia. Unfortunatly this former B&LE unit is now out of service, and sits landlocked at the r... (more)

Life and death at the rebuild shop A tagged and worn SP tunnel motor rusts away, slowly giving away its parts to other 645 powered units with a better fate ahead. Far more optimistically i... (more)

Ghosts and the soon to be departed.... The engines may wear paint schemes of fallen railroads, but thats not whats about to dissapear in this scene. The elevator once the main customer for the li... (more)

What are the chances of seeing a consist like this in 2010! 5/7th's of the Hartwell Roster is seen here in Bowersville ready to lug a very heavy hopper to Lavonia. Really only the first tw... (more)

Bent out of shape On February 13th NS 119 derailed at CP Foremost, near the Lenox MARTA station, several cars derailed and fell on their sides. Luckily the damage to the units was minor an... (more)

Coal for Christmas On the day after Christmas the Athens Line delivers two cars of coal to the UGA powerplant in Athens. The steep grade into the plants means that only two loads at a time ... (more)

A displaced Bay Line unit slowly eases across a wooden trestle between Smithville and Bronwood as the train heads west towards Cuthbert, GA.

A short two car Bankhead train heads east towards the Five Points station, past the abandoned Atlanta constitution building, which has been abandoned for decades and is now threatened with demolit... (more)

The smoking beast awaits at the top of the hill, awaiting the crews to allow the UGA heating plant crews to unload the coal from the hoppers before bringing its train back down the spur which runs... (more)

Iowa, 1980? Nope, Georgia, 2010! CNW 4556 and ex-CR GP38 1973 sway through a curve on the original Hartwell Railroad. The line nowdays is used primarily for storage cars, but this week all... (more)

At about 3:00 PM on Wednesday July 1st, CSX coal train N132 derailed while traversing the Stonewall Connection in Union City, GA, piling up about 20 cars on the connector. By the next day when i m... (more)

A rare former BN TEBC6 rests at East Thomas Yard. These sets have been a fixture at East Thomas for a long time.