An afternoon southbound meanders along with 6 EMDs and 21 loads
A text from a friend allowed me to capture a late running GNRR switch job. My wife calls it the Guns-N-Roses Railroad.
A GNRR Freight heads South as they pass through Holy Springs, GA. Bound for Elizabeth, GA. On a beautiful Fall afternoon
The southbound splits through the Georgia Marble Company with 6 engines and 21 cars consisting predominately of marble.
Passing by the nicely restored L&N depot is a northbound Georgia Northeastern manifest on its way to Tate.
High hood GP9 #6576 brings three empty hoppers down the steep grade leading to the first of two switch backs. The train will work Polycor Ga Marble Quarry Division once it reaches the bottom.
An engineer gives a quick look at the inbound road train from Marietta while tying down GP38 #2000.
The second local pulls into Elizabeth not even 5 minutes behind the first one with a trio of geeps running long hood forward. CSX's W&A sub is in the foreground.
The super elevation isn't necessary for 10mph running on 100 lb. 1920's era rail. Both the rail and the ex-Southern Pacific GP20 have seen much faster speeds.
It is easy to see why the L&N chose a completely different alignment for their Knoxville to Atlanta mainline. While running only 10mph, the Georgia Northeastern still does a good job maintaining ... (more)
468 miles to Louisville by the way of L&N's 'Hook & Eye' Line. Long gone are Alco RS3's and FA's hauling freights but you can still find a nice variety of older EMD locomotives on the Georgia Nort... (more)
With Kennesaw Mountain in the background, a GP20/GP9/GP38/GP20 consist lug a 41 car freight out of Elizabeth on their way north to Tate.
Georgia Northeasterns northbound train to Tate rolls across Main Street in downtown Woodstock on a beautiful summer morning.
GNRR 8705 basks in the afternoon sun outside of the Georgia Northeastern's shops in the quite town of Tate.
Georgia Northeastern extra Grain Train pulling through the dump shed.
