After meeting trackage rights train NS 334, CSX K621 gets a signal from the soon to fall L&N searchlight onto the single track at James. Once the rear end clears the next curve to the south/west (... (more)

The CSX crew has just handed off their loaded fly ash train to an engineer for the Sequatchie Valley Railroad, who will take the train north out of Bridgeport to a company in the drywall industry.... (more)

Having traversed Raccoon Mountain, loaded fly ash train K621 is now flying southwest (railroad north) along Nickajack Lake. The sun popped out from behind summer cloudcover at the perfect moment t... (more)

Southern 4501 pulls her tool car and 7 coaches up the 1% grade west of McDonald, TN with little struggle. Based on what was said after the flawless run, we should be seeing a lot more of 4501 in t... (more)

Off To The Races or Heritage on Heritage? The Southern Railway heritage ES44AC leads Triple Crown train 264 north through Varnell, GA at sunrise. Before arriving in Chattanooga, it would me... (more)

Having made quick work of the eastbound portion of her first mainline trip in 21 years, Southern 4501 turns on the Bradley Wye in Cleveland, TN for the run back west. The trainmaster asked if they... (more)

CSX MP15T 1212 shoves a cut of junk cars back into one of the RIP tracks at Tilford Yard. This engine was built for the Seaboard System in 1984 and retains its original numberboards.

Built as L&N SD40-2 3555 in 1974, CSX SD40-2 2434 shoves yet another train over the Tilford hump, as it has been doing daily since the turn of this millennium.

Ex-Seaboard MP15T 1212 has pulled up to the clearance point where it and CSX SD40-2 8462 wait for a six-engine set of power to clear up in the engine tracks. The SD40-2 has a storied history, as i... (more)

An ex-Seaboard System SD50 leads a CN and CSX GE along with two more SD50s to the engine tracks at Tilford Yard.

While it's no Southern E8 like would really be fit for this scene, one of Amtrak older Genesis model engines leads the southbound Crescent, which is pausing at Peachtree Station in Atlanta for a c... (more)

After over a week of rain and thunderstorms, the skies finally cleared over Atlanta, leading to a hot and sunny late spring day. While driving around and enjoying the sunshine, I found this CSX gr... (more)

After heavy rains swept over the foothills region of North Georgia for the seventh straight day, southbound NS train 237 is about to throttle out of a slow order at Allen, the CP that controls the... (more)

Rain is about to come pouring down as a classic YN2 SD40-2 leads Q611-13 south on the Atlanta & West Point, of which a concrete milepost and whistlepost can be seen in the background. Seeing how r... (more)

Orion, Venus, and other stars and planets glisten overhead as high hood NS SD40-2 1632 sits on the Gainesville Midland lead just south of the Amtrak station and yard office. The signal lights at M... (more)