The catch of the day was 937, (Chattanooga, TN - Atlanta, GA) Training First Responders train with the 5642 GP38-2 solo. We waited here for about and hour and a half with golden sunlight fading aw... (more)
Appreciate Carson Bean for letting me know this set was running today! I had to run over to Hixon for a doctors appointment at 1:40. Afterwards I snuck down to 23rd street just in time for 109 to ... (more)
Southern 4501 makes another round trip to East Chattanooga, crossing over their Chickamauga Creek bridge.
NS 3421 pulls G97 and their 5 gondolas back to Dalton, GA. The crew have been on duty since 6 AM, and as the 5:30 PM mark rolls around, this crew is gonna be lucky to make it all the way back.
CSXT W003-11 with CSXT 9969 a former MARC GP40WH-2 charges north out of Chetoogeta Mountain Tunnel in Tunnel Hill, GA.
Thanks Dustin for giving me the heads up about this absolutely monster manifest with 3 UP motors, a CP motor and an NS motor. Great catch indeed!
U70291 rolling off the Bluford sub into Fulton.
The crew of 1072 is now tying the train down just outside the plant.
Southbound manifest train 371-02 enters the Cohutta, GA limits behind UP SD70ACe 8732. The influx of foreign power recently has been off the charts! Lots of BNSF & UP power on these run through ma... (more)
Our first shot was in some great evening light at Waring, GA. This curve swings north out of Waring passing the 36 milepost heading for Varnell.
CSXT train T700-29 eases across the Tennessee River bridge at Knoxville, TN on their trip south to Etowah. The clean leader and YN2 caught our attention prompting us to follow him further south.
A increasingly rare SD70ACU leader brings NS 202 out of North Tunnel coming into Chattanooga, TN.
NS 732 crawling upgrade at CP Long in the freshly laid snow.
CSXT B639-30 round the bend into Morley where the crew will stop to pick up the Morley pusher for the trip up Duff Mountain.