Look Mom...no coupler!
This Friday the 13th finds an unlucky CP auto rack as it has been tagged "bad order" and set out in West Point due to a lack of coupler. The car must now wait ... (more)

Running today as L220, the Kia Train brings another load of Hyundai Santa Fe, Sorento and the newly built Optima automobiles from the Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)
Locomotive: GE ES44AC
Location: Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: CSXT 769
Train ID: CSX Q220
Photo Date: October 15, 2011

Speed Lettering
After being purchased by the Rio Grande in 1988, the newly combined Rio Grande and Southern Pacific railroads retained the name of Southern Pacific but revamped the log... (more)

With the lead locomotives from Q220 pulling, the train of K715 and all of its loaded rock hoppers kick up some dust as they hastily run through the town of Locahapoka.

X220 has just met Q611 and begins its journey north to the Kia plant in West Point, GA where it will pick up a loaded train of Kia Sorentos and head towards Birmingham on the Lineville subdivision... (more)

A fully loaded rack train of Quality built Kia Sorentos from the new plant located in West Point, GA descends the Notasulga hill as it rolls to Montgomery on a very hot June morning with an exquis... (more)

After dropping off an empty train or autoracks at the Kia plant in West Point, Q220 continues through Loachapoka wi... (more)

With only light engines, Q220 makes its way through the quaint little town of Loachapoka on a gorgeous May afternoon. The locomotives have just come from West Point, GA where they dropped off an ... (more)

With a new pair of engines, X220 heads back to the north end of Chester Yard in hopes of getting a track warrant to finally being its journey towards West Point, GA in hopes of picking up a trainl... (more)

The power for today's Kia Sorento autorack train was about to depart Montgomery for the automaker's 1st North American plant in West Point, but due to the fact that the trailing unit seen here was... (more)

The class unit of Dash 9s for CSX has finished dropping off empty autoracks at West Point, GA for the locally built Kia Sorento (hence the Q220 id) and instead of heading to Montgomery light engin... (more)

the two former EMD demonstrator units on the point of Q220 lean into a superelevated curve as the crew puts the train back together after setting out a car tagged by a defect detector

northbound on CSX Fitzgerald Sub