Closing in on Macon, Georgia Central L781 runs track speed as the crew gets ready to enter Norfolk Southern's Brosnan Yard. With the line in need of higher horsepower engines that can traverse the... (more)

Normally, what trails the lead power of any train doesn't motivate me to be trackside. Q541 on July 8th, 2019 though was the rare exception to the rule. What made me come out on that day were 9 of... (more)

Clinchfield 3632 leads the return trip to K-25 with another train of empty containers to be loaded with radioactive metal. What made today's train special was not only the appearance of Clinchfiel... (more)

Clinchfield 800 sits on the point of a revenue freight as the crew sits for a few minutes to relax. In all actuality though, the engine was out of service pending a 92 day inspection, but that did... (more)

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)

Jeddo Coal Company 85 sits as it waits for the Brakeman to throw the switch to the shop down the hill. Just ahead of me to the right & out of the shot is the derail & connection to Norfolk Souther... (more)

The Hartwell Railroad's former EJ&E SD38 & Rio Grande GP35 work the feed mill in Bowersville.

After waiting in Centralia, WA for Amtrak 502 to clear town, a hotshot BNSF manifest races south past the old Northern Pacific station in Chehalis, WA, which now serves as the Lewis County Histori... (more)

NS 231 goes into Inman on Thoroughfare 3 with NS 8100 on the point, making for I guess you could a nickel-plated skyline shot with the skyscrapers of Atlanta visible in the background.

Randy Cofer takes his turn at the throttle as he puts on a show going up the hill at the Southeastern Railway Museum.

CSX P918-23 exits the gorge at a point referred to as High Cliff on the KD Subdivision as they get ready to enter Kentucky in about a half mile. The train is carrying executives as they conduct an... (more)

The northbound Summerville Steam Special runs along side Insurance Auto Auctions shortly before arriving at 23rd Street & getting onto the East Chattanooga Belt Line.

"Emergence"

TVRM 100 leaves East Chattanooga with Southern 4501 on the point as Engineer Andrew Durden continues to warm & blow out the cylinders, which takes a hot minute on this engine due to it just being ... (more)

CSX local A704 arrives in Dalton to work the Dalton ramp before returning north to Wauhatchie Yard.