Around 4pm the northbound loaded coal train straddles Strodes Run before clouds obliterate the sun.
CSX worktrain picks up old tie plates and spikes just east of the Fairhope road crossing before heading west to Glencoe for more cleanup work
The conductor and maintenance foreman (partially visible behind boxcar) discuss the day's moves as an elderly B36-7 waits to switch cars out of No. 8 track at Sand Patch. Visible color in the tree... (more)
TTI empties head back south into the setting sun.
Glory in the 11th hour. As the ranks of CSX Dash 7's continue to thin, this B36-7 does what it was meant to do just one more time. Though Q143 is just a Atlanta to Fairburn transfer, i was gratefu... (more)
Back in the early days of diesel building GE and ALCO worked together a lot, although the relationship ended well before the -7 series rolled off the floor in Erie. In providing a flash back to th... (more)
The purple martins have left and missed the furious railfan chase of this train just in from Paris. Here the train is on CSX track 2 and being pulled east to the terminal by the transloader by the... (more)
Q386 charges through CP-382 with three veterans leading - two B36-7s and an SD40-2 (still wearing its Conrail Quality paint).
This old timer is taking a break from tie-train service on Sunday morning, tied down on the east freight track until Monday morning.
Trio of 'Tote Boats' overtakes a coal train at the south end of the double track through Kennesaw
B36-7 almost seems like standard issue on work trains in my travels of late. Spotted in a siding that appears to serve the Boone County Highway Department Garage.
This MOW train is tied down on the east end of the eastbound siding. To the left of it you see a loaded ballast train.
CSX work train patiently awaits the next call at the yard in Keyser
CSX work train patiently awaits the call for duty
