285 proceeds south after stopping to meet northbound 174 at Oakdale. The power is approaching the foundations that once held the old Southern Railway searchlight signal bridge. The venerable old s... (more)

Factory-fresh Canadian National ES44AC 3029 leads Kansas City to Jacksonville intermodal 285 through downtown Atlanta. The people on this 285 are making much better time through the city than driv... (more)

CN 3029 leads NS train 285 southbound at 104.3 near Rockmart, GA. 3029 was so new I could still smell the paint! Today was definitely a Canadian invasion on the Atlanta North End.

Fresh out of the factory Canadian National ES44AC #3029 leads NS train #285 south out of Atlanta bound for Jacksonville,FL.

With the Louisville Ky. NS yard having a traffic jam eastbound NS 285 with a KCS ACe leader waits its turn to proceed.

Here come the next generation of Toyota vehicles! Skimming the rails at a good 55 mph is NS southbound autorack train 285 with a conventional cab Dash 9 leading.

285 blasts through the small town of Sturgeon with two Ex-Southern GP38-2s leading. Sturgeon was the site of a 1979 Norfolk and Western train derailment and chemical spill that forced an evacuatio... (more)

A pair of high-hood GP38-2s have temporarily escaped their local assignments and lead intermodal/autorack train 285 over the Wabash Bridge in St. Charles, MO. The gravel at ground level is the for... (more)

Two Ex-Southern GP38-2s lead a SD70M-2 on 285 west of Salisbury. It was probably the first time in a while the 5097 led a 60mph train.

Norfolk Southern's beautiful 6920, which is specially painted to honor our veterans, dodges clouds as it rolls south at Sugar Valley, GA on the first day of July 2014.

Just days before our nation's 238th birthday, Norfolk Southern's patriotic SD60E leads train 285 towards Atlanta and ultimately Jacksonville, Florida as they meander through the thick woods surrou... (more)

Nice to see the Norfolk Southern Veterans Locomotive almost on the Fourth of July. Very nice to see a company take pride and time to show support for veterans of America.

Nice color added with the BNSF trailing as this intermodal is headed to drop off intermodal traffic for the FEC. The leader is sporting a new coat of paint in the "Horsehead" scheme.

NS 285's power rolls back light after delivering it's train to the FEC. It is uncommon but not unheard of for UP power to turn up on NS trains in Jax.

NS train 285 makes it's way by CP Bridge as it approaches Inman Yard with SD70M 2620 taking the place of the normal C40-9Ws. The train will perform work in Atlanta before continuing its trip towar... (more)