A surprising 6000 foot long Q619 with 97 cars of freight makes its way into Opelika passing a house most railfans wouldn't think is too close to the tracks.

NS 336 crosses a typical railroad looking fill as it heads to Columbus with a three pack of NS power.

Spikes
When a tie replacement is under way, one of the other fundamental things being replaced other than ties are spikes and lots of them as evident here. An original Atlantic Coast ... (more)

A pair of UP visitors pull today’s Q619 into downtown for a meet with X786 which is waiting patiently in the siding south of here. ... (more)

The northbound lite power move of X786 is seen about to roll south out of the siding at Opelika after a meet with southbound Q619. S... (more)

This year’s Pie Day finds a pumpkin flavored unit sitting in the transfer yard with a full moon overhead. While foreign power pulling run through trains is a very common occurrence in today’s... (more)

Resting on the Opelika siding, A746 waits for a crew which will be arriving in a few minutes to begin its nocturnal operation. Since the CSX MoW has a curfew in effect for their tie replacement, ... (more)

As the CSX tie replacement MoW project gets into full swing, the 8059 is again seen parked along the WofA at night. This nig... (more)

Several years into the CSX era, a Chessie B30-7 teams with another B-boat and two geeps to lead a northbound out of the late afternoon sun and past the old West Point coaling tower and an ex-SCL M... (more)

A scene of a sb freight nearing the NS crossing contains a few archaic elements, like the SCL and L&N work train cars, and the trackside phone box.

A crew member steps across the Southern as local train #5 works the sidings and interchange tracks around the depot.

Red gold
Labeled as calcine or iron oxide, this byproduct from the heydays of smelting at Copperhill, Tennessee has now found new way to get to metal producers overseas; that is by usi... (more)

A pair of iconic looking SD40-2 units running in elephant style round the curving into Opelika as they take their freight train into downtown on a chilly Sunday morning.

GP35 1122 leads a trio of newer GP38s on run-thru train that used A&WP/WofA between Atlanta and Montgomery.

Just after a few minutes after Q619, CSX K535 with a 60 car load of calcine byproduct from the smelting mines of Copperhill, Tennessee b... (more)