With the former Rock Island and CNW GP9 in the lead, the Hartwell railroad heads north out of Bowersville, clearing storage cars off their mainline by relocating them to various plant leads on dif... (more)

With the morning fog burning off, the Hartwell job shoves up the serpentine lead to Pharma tech Industries in Royston, Georgia with a couple out of place locomotives for power.

Awaiting Assignment? Now employed by the Hartwell Railroad, this former CNW power rests with a mixed consist amidst some old passenger cars and other discarded items.

An old CNW veteran now working for the Hartwell takes a break on a Sunday morning.

Venus and Mars shine in the overhead sky as a former CNW GP9 sits with Ex Conrail and St. Lawrence & Atlantic units on the Hartwell Railroad in Bowersville, Georgia.

Our planetary neibor Venus shines brightly overhead as a sky dotted in accompanying stars drifts over north Georgia while a silent night is had on the Hartwell Railroad. The Chicago Northwestern G... (more)

HRT 4556, a former CNW GP9, sits in Bowersville, Ga on a quiet, peaceful night.

Doesn't look too bad to have been taken with a broken lens...

It seems as if the shots you don't plan are the ones that turn out the best. I was on my way to go shoot an Ex BN unit in Gainesville, and as I made my way into Georgia I kept thinking to myself "... (more)

Having dropped it's cars off, the ex-CNW, ex-RI 4556 couples onto a cut of well cars and TOFC flats to shove into the ex-Hartwell trackage at Bowersville. Meanwhile the ex StL&A 300 and another un... (more)

My personal favorite locomotive on the roster, HRT 4556, rests beneath hundreds of stars at the Rose Acre Feed Mill (behind me) in Bowersville, Georgia. This was my first time using flashes, and I... (more)

Hartwell Railroad has amazed me for 2 years at this point. From the moment I discovered the line, I was hooked! One of my favorite aspects is the pure history the line beholds. The track its self ... (more)

IS IT 2015 OR NOT? It's hard to believe that it's 2015, and yet you can still go to see a CNW GP9. This is truly the pride of the Hartwell Railway.

TIS A COOL NIGHT IN NEBRASKA IN 1979 Not really, but you wouldn't be able to tell otherwise if it wasn't for this description. And that's what I love about the Hartwell Railway! There are s... (more)

It's not everyday that you come up on an Ex CNW GP9, Ex Rio Grande GP35, Ex Conrail GP38, Ex EJE SD38, and two other elder, classic locomotives on the same railroad...much less in 2014! Hartwell R... (more)