With "The Peach" in the background, 153-11 departs Atlanta with a fresh crew returning to Birmingham.

Normally an empty repo symbol, today NS 27W is an uncommon 59 loads of Toyota's from Blue Springs, MS coming off BNSF at Birmingham, exporting through Georgia Port Authority in Brunswick, GA. A n... (more)

One of the Tweety Birds crosses a full Chattahoochee River with an extra train of export Mercedes. A week earlier the river level was somewhere between my feet & knees.

An L&N switcher/slug snake curves down toward Tilford Yard's main classification area.

UP AC4400CW #6818 leads NS 22N (Memphis,TN - Atlanta,GA) by the DPU's of a BNSF Scherer empty.

4-4-0 Western & Atlantic Texas, which served the W&A before, during, and after the U.S. Civil War, has been cosmetically restored to her 1886 appearance. It is on permanent display at the Atlanta... (more)

It's still possible to be surprised in this age of information. Other than the yard tracks in the foreground, the Grinstein Green SD70MAC with intact BNSF nose logo is the oldest railroad element... (more)

Train 221 changes from timetable South to North for a couple hundred feet before ducking into its terminus at Inman Yard. The Goat Farm Arts Center is behind the lead unit, originally built to pr... (more)

The GoRail unit brings New Orleans-Atlanta 298 the last mile into the Atlanta Terminal and Inman Yard.

Charlotte-Nashville Q580 rolls through Coca-Cola curve with a bright pair of YN2 AC4400CWs.

Chattanooga to Macon freight 361 passes recently re-named State Farm Arena as it takes a left turn down the NS Griffin District.

CSX Q211 eases through the Jones Avenue interlocking as the tail end of NS #282 is seen to the left.

With a long cut of cars and ample power, extra 1st trick yard job Y421 takes headroom all the way to Huff Road while flat switching Howells Yard.

CSX's intermodal transfer returns home to Fairburn Intermodal with 4 wells from Hulsey Yard, seen here running south on NS trackage rights.

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. From left to right, intermodal 282-04 rolls up #2 main where it will use the runaround through Inman... the crew was not happy about taking the train ... (more)