The Silver Meteor slides across Rice Creek in Palatka after meeting Q177. You can see Florida gets a bit of color during the fall.

CSX Q177 rolls across Rice Creek on a cool day heading for a meet with Amtrak 98. Q177 no longer runs via the A line outside of the rare exception.

Amtrak's Silver Meteor slides into Palatka at Peacan after crossing Rice Creek Bridge.

After about 3 years of trying to be here when this unit was working the yard I got lucky on this day. This yard over the years had been worked by NS and CSX but now Georgia Pacific relies on a lea... (more)

RSSX works the GP Paper Mill in Palatka. Finally after trying for about 3 years I got this guy in action.

CSX N152 returning CSX OUCX coal train seen in south Palatka heading back north. Coal and freight trains are very hard to catch in daylight on this part of the A line.

Amtrak's Silver Meteor arrives at the Palatka station whilst someone films the arrival. Look close you can see the conductor leaning out of the consist.

Georgia Pacific's large mill in Palatka was once switched by CSX and or NS. Over the years the NS line from the west was abandoned (in 1989) and CSX has scaled back. Now Georgia Pacific maintains ... (more)

Amtrak's Phase I celebrity locomotive on it's return trip north during it's first visit to the Sunshine State. This view is at Rice Creek just north of Palatka. This is reportedly the oldest of th... (more)

To quote the Amtrak commercial, the train is now arriving..

The Silver Meteor crosses Rice Creek just north of Palatka on a warm breezy day. The bridge here is the oldest of it's type in the USA.

Still in Conrail Blue.

Here’s a view of a Railserve Inc. switcher moving some freight cars around the small yard at Georgia Pacific in Palatka FL. Some of the products manufactured at this location include: Angel Soft... (more)

Q455 heads south past the Palatka ACL depot, a National Historic Landmark,after setting out at Pecan Yard on a bright, warm "winter" morning in Florida.

PO 98 with two motors arrives about 3 hours late northbound.