SD40Es don't escape helper service often and make it south even less. An Altoona, PA to Atlanta, GA deadhead allowed one to escape with rear observation car #5. The Maryland will celebrate it's ... (more)

Evansville Western switches the Port of Indiana.

Traveling over the Nashville & North-Western Railroad, now part of CSX's cobbled together route to Memphis, a Los Angeles to Atlanta intermodal drifts into downtown with a malfunctioning sander.

Dual B23-7s and a dually.

Not a meet I've often caught, Q531 has an approach medium on the double track at Shops, while Q12504 creeps down to Church Street for a crew change.

With a fresh crew, North Baltimore, OH to Jacksonville, FL train Q143 crawls through the gulch, now a mixture of hipster & yuppie construction.

West Tennessee's Humboldt Turn slogs north with 45 cars. The rear 22 are for the Gerdau Ameristeel Mini-Mill north of town, with the rest interchanging to CSX.

For anyone who thinks the Evansville Western is just a podunk shortline...

I was forced south by clouds and remembered a friend had success with the rarely photographed West Tennessee RR. The 3111 may be painted in WTNN's classy red & silver scheme, but the nose headlig... (more)

With continued traffic growth, Evansville Western recently CTCed the eastern end of the railroad and extended sidings. The Sunday edition of the Mt Vernon, IN-Evansville, IN turn passes through t... (more)

An increasingly rare trio of YN2 painted AC44s roll over the form St Louis & Southeastern RR, which became L&N's mainline to St Louis. This Evansville Western coal train is still keeping it in th... (more)

Believe me when I say the 04:00 alarm was rough after a night of microbrews and German food, but it was worth it when, after getting shut out the prior morning, a train came at the perfect time.

With a quartet of export locomotives from VMV Mt Vernon, IL facility, Evansville Western's Mt Vernon Local #2 heads east to interchange with CSX in Evansville.

Living in Atlanta, I occasionally see catch Q028 departing in the long summertime evenings... it's nice to catch him elsewhere on the run.

Not your typical CSX coal train power. Evansville Western train HVH129 is running 3x2 DPU over CSX to tie down just north of town at Harwood, where a CSX crew will take over this evening for the ... (more)