The southbound City of New Orleans charges past the cotton gin in the small delta community of Crenshaw, MS.

IC 9613 leads a cut of cars to CN Harrison Yard after working the Valero lead and surrounding industries.

Severe weather, flooding, and delays have led to a somewhat unusual arrival of CN's President's Island job on late Sunday afternoon. Even more unusual WC 3018 has been put in the lead. Here a memb... (more)

After several weeks of rain and numerous slow orders in affect, NS 9513 crawls into Rials siding to meet the southbound City of New Orleans in the flooded Mississippi delta.

After several minutes of impatiently blowing his horn, the 18-wheeler driver has finally got the attention of the crew of IC 9630. Here they can be seen coupling up to an outbound tanker they left... (more)

The DPU of CN C739 rolls north through the muddy delta.

After waiting for RJ Corman maintenance and an L&T Construction crew to clear the trackage ahead, the crew of GTW 6228 prepares to shove a cut of cars into the Valero Lead.

L&T Construction Inc, based in Hernando, MS and specializing in grading and drainage, seems to have recently expanded there business into railroad maintenance also. So far, they seem to have sever... (more)

GTW 6228 backs up as it heads toward the Memphis Valero Refinery to pick up several tank cars,

The southbound City of New Orleans flies past Loram (LMIX) 612 as it goes through the small community of Banks, MS.

IC 9630 creeps down the rusty tracks with three tank cars for Helm Fertilizer Terminal Inc.

KCS 4009 leads a northbound freight out of CN Harrison Yard in Memphis, TN.

BNSF 4038 leads a northbound intermodal out of Memphis as it crosses the UP Memphis Sub. Note that composite image editing makes the curve in this location look significantly sharper than it reall... (more)

BNSF 8798 leads a westbound coal train down Poplar Avenue past the i-Bank Tower.

BNSF 7880 leads an intermodal train into Memphis. In the background a UP coal train waits for the intermodal to clear so it can cross the BNSF Main and onto the CN interchange track.