A trio of Kansas City Southern EMD SD70ACe's power NS train #220 through the rugged eastern Alabama hills on its way to Atlanta,GA from Dallas,TX.

NS 220 takes the siding at Edwardsville as it meet 11A. Leading is at the time one of only maybe 5 "Grey Ghost" painted locomotives left on either KCS or KCSM, so having never actually s... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Jersey Central Heritage SD70ACe locomotive #1071, leads Train 153 westbound through Edwardsville, AL.

NS 1801 leads NS 24E through Edwardsville, AL

An ACe was a nice surprise leading 220, as NS has been assigning their own power lately to manage horsepower hours, leading to a preponderance of GE catfish on the normally colorful East End Distr... (more)

As dignitaries from KCS and NS inspect the route over a two day period from Shreveport to Atlanta, photographers inspected the OCS train and locations it passed through as in the case with this sc... (more)

Kansas City Southern's Office Car Special heads East through Edwardsville, AL, running as Norfolk Southern 088 to Atlanta, GA.

NS train 088, the KCS OCS, passes under the Southern era signal bridge at Edwardsville as they head for Atlanta. The KCS OCS was making a rare appearance off of its home rails since KCS executives... (more)

According to a friend, the cones on this wooden bridge aren't just for repairs and the wooden bridge is planned for replacement. If so, it'll be the second wooden bridge I've shot the Southern He... (more)

Climbing into Edwardsville in mountainous eastern Alabama is NS #340 behind the normal KCS power. #340 normally terminates at Norris Yard in Birmingham but due to capacity was forwarded east to Br... (more)

After holding a couple days waiting on yard capacity in Birmingham, NS decided to run KCS runthrough 340 over the mountainous East End District to classify at Brosnan Yard in Macon, GA. Even with... (more)

Norfolk Southern Train 220 heads East through Edwardsville, AL. With KCS SD70ACe #4029 still in the grey Paint scheme on the point

The Pennsylvania Railroad heritage unit, ES44AC Nº8102 leads NS's Linwood, NC to Sheffield, Alabama manifest, 173 through the small sleepy community of Edwardsville, Alabama late on the night of ... (more)

Seventeen years ago, NS SD9043MAC 7336 was built as CEFX 126 (December 1999) by GMD (EMD) in London Ontario, Canada. In fall 2008, the Indiana Rail Road took delivery of six CEFX/CIT SD9043s for c... (more)