NS 66G heads east in Irondale AL towards Columbus GA, KCS Loaded Herzog train from MS.

The former CofG Columbus, GA main and the Southern Atlanta main paralleled each other through Weems. This freight - bound for Norris Yard in Irondale - is about to duck under SCL's former SAL Atl... (more)

SCL 966 teams with a much newer U18B to move a local train toward Boyles. The train has just slipped across the south side of downtown, and is about to cross Southern's line to Sheffield and Memph... (more)

Unexpected With the southbound Amtrak Crescent only 30 minutes away, a savvy dispatcher goes ahead and clears the A... (more)

With its second run almost in the books, TVRM 630 shoves back to the passenger pickup point and will pass historic Sloss Furnaces in the background as well as soon to be new signals at 24th street... (more)

The Q282 auto rack train comprised of Hyundai automobiles and even a newly built UP Auto Flex rack car rolls into the Magic City just as its automotive sister train, the more)

Role Reversal
Old wheels ranging in size from 36 inch to 28 inch diameters earn their last revenue miles by riding atop a freight car instead of underneath it head for the scrap / sal... (more)

Showing off true collaboration between the merged carriers a Conrail coil car with NS and Conrail hoods makes its way out of this steel city for a journey west.

Today’s NS 340 slowly comes into the Magic City with a pair of KCS Aces in two different paint schemes as it leads the very long mixed freight composed of a power move involving 6 NS locomotives... (more)

A quartet of BNSF GEVO locomotives prepare to pull on Q185 as it receives a signal to come off the NS NA/West End District and roll onto the CSX Boyles Terminal Subdivision for the continuation of... (more)

A butt-head and blue skies Leading today’s NS to CSX transfer run, Y317 and its CSX distinctive MP15T locomotive head back to Boyles yard after having worked the high-line interchange tr... (more)

Today’s Southbound Crescent pulls into Birmingham with a special visitor leading it to the station, the Amtrak heritage unit 66 wearing the “Phase II” paint scheme. This unit completes a ha... (more)