On a gorgeous St. Patrick's Day, NS 9-1-1, the "Honoring First Responders" unit that completely resembles a huge fire truck, leads NS 153 by the blooming Bradford Pears and Apple Trees o... (more)

Georgia Division local G88 heads south onto former Central of Georgia trackage at CP Spring, which still has its [defunct] interlocking tower from the days when Atlanta Terminal Station still stoo... (more)

The Piedmont Division's weekday turn between Chamblee and East Point enters ex-Central of Georgia trackage at CP Spring. With two former Southern SD40-2s trailing, it's appropriate to note that th... (more)

After leaving CSX rails and entering the former Central of Georgia mainline at CP Spring, CSX Q235 rolls southward toward East Point, where it will join the A&WP, then to Union City where it will ... (more)

CN autorack/autoparts train M371 passes the 1918 Illinois Central station at Mattoon, Illinois with an IC SD70 doing the honors on its home rails.

The last thing I expected to see on my drive to Ohio for my summer job was a true Illinois Central train on its namesake mainline. Somehow though, it happened, and I took advantage of it by chasin... (more)

With thin, whispy clouds painted onto a deep blue sky, Canadian National auto train M371 flies down the Illinois Central with an appropriate engine doing the honors. Mix all of this with the mural... (more)

Manifest freight M342 knocks down the LED signals at North Tuscola on Canadian National's Champaign Subdivision. With two ES44ACs on the front, this train won't struggle on its southbound trip thr... (more)

NS 145 eases by a westbound approach signal at Martin on the Lafayette District, as it will hold at Tolono for a southbound CN train. Nothing in this shot was long for this world, as this would be... (more)

After a line of thunderstorms passed through the Midwest, a northbound CSX manifest rolls underneath I-74 at the south end of the Brewer Yard with two rare (for CSX) EMDs out front. To see how muc... (more)

Decatur, IL to Conway, PA manifest 34N works out of the Wabash River Valley and past the namesake railroad's searchlight signals at West Point, IN under dark, threatening summer skies.

On a rainy day in northwestern Indiana, westbound manifest 15E flies through Lafayette's train and bus station on its trip from Bellevue, OH to the Union Pacific at Sidney, IL.

Late in the evening, an older Union Pacific GE leads Atlanta-Charleston, SC intermodal train 238 up the Greenville District of NS's Piedmont Division. The train will stop in a mile or so at the no... (more)

Once pulling the hottest trains on the Southern system, these consecutively-numbered NS GP38-3s are both former high hood GP50s built in 1980 and are now in local service. On its return trip from ... (more)

Blue Ridge Southern's attractive herald on the nose of SD40-2 4205 fits in nicely with its background as Canton-Asheville turn T31 makes the eastbound journey to "the city up in the clouds.&q... (more)