A summer storm is tapering off to moderate rain as 184 leads Amtrak 98. Been trying for 2 years to get a good shot of this motor, finally did it. Big thanks to fans down south for h/u.

Amtrak 65 brings the Silver Meteor to a stop at the Palatka, FL, station on "Black Friday".

He liked my hat! Breakman of RSSX 101 points to his hardhat telling me he likes my pinstripe engineer hat I was wearing. Very friendly crew. RSSX does the switching for the large GP Mill in Palatk... (more)

RSSX 101 totes some cars around the small yard at the Georgia Pacific Mill in Palatka on a warm and humid day. The GP mill is massive the size of a small town but rail operations are sporadic.

The friendly crew of RSSX 101 gently rolls up to a string of cars at the GP Mill in Palatka. Got real lucky catching them as this is a large but sporadic operation.

An SW 900 owned by Rail Serve waits for a crew member to open the gate at the massive Georgia Pacific plant in Palatka. This yard was once worked by NS & CSX is now worked by locally.

Amtrak 145 leads 98 over the Rice Creek Bridge in Palatka, heading northbound for Jacksonville and points north. 145 had thwarted my attempts to photograph it for just over a year and I make up fo... (more)

CSXT Q177 rolls across the Buffalo Bluff bridge crossing the St. Johns River just south of Palatka. This bridge is isolated the only way to see it is via boat or kayak (as I did). My kayak ride wa... (more)

The last train of the 4 I saw on my 6 mile round trip kayak to this isolated rail bridge was CSX Q177 a daily intermodal reflecting across the St. Johns River. Owls were hooting all around me as I... (more)

Amtrak 98 slides onto the isolated Buffalo Bluff bridge over the St. Johns River as an alligator looks on. Getting here was a 2.5 mile one way kayak trip (round trip about 5 miles) which took an h... (more)

A kayak paddle of one hour brings the first views of Buffalo Bluff bridge to Railpictures.net. Here we catch Auto train rumbling across the bridge, one of 4 trains seen in about 2 hours here.

A kayak paddle of one hour brings the first views of Buffalo Bluff bridge to Railpictures.net. The Silver Star running a few hours earlier then normal due to track work rumbles across the isolated... (more)

One of CSX's 20 SD70Ace's leads CSXT Q235 past the Palatka Amtrak Station in downtown Palatka bound for Taft Yard in Orlando. Freights on the "A" line are rare in daylight and Q235 is one of the f... (more)

The Silver Meteor slides into Palatka making a station stop. Some poor girl arrived after the train departed who missed her train. Ironic thing is not only was the Meteor a few minutes late it sat... (more)

To quote the Amtrak commercial...the train is now arriving. Today's Silver Meteor is lead once again by Phase I heritage locomotive 156. The smoke in the background is from the Seminole Power Plan... (more)