As the sunlight along the AGS North Division reaches its peak, NS 1071 and 8102 make the rails tingle and earth shake as they wrap their train through Springville, Ala.

In the early morning, the DMV&W crew takes an empty coal train North to Coal Creek Station for loading. They're passing power for a manifest that will run later in the day.

Looking over the CN ore docks, the DMIR tug Edna G, and a North Shore Scenic excursion that just arrived downtown.

A Hurricane Ida CSX reroute over the Alabama Southern Railroad heads east out of Tuscaloosa and over Hurricane Creek in Holt, Ala.

Just after midnight, and with over 15,000 feet of train on the drawbar, UP 1111 and three other motors work train 344 through the small town of York, Ala. along the NS AGS South District.

A late NS 219 takes a detour into the Mississippi forest on the NS AGS South.

With a rather short train on the drawbar, Alabama Southern train 112 trundles over the Lubbub Creek trestle in Reform, Ala. before stopping for a recrew. Freshly rebuilt snoot nosed WAMX 4115 is t... (more)

Alabama Southern train 112 departs Tuscaloosa for Mississippi and flies over the Black Warrior River with Downtown Tuscaloosa in the background. On point are three CN motors that will be taken off... (more)

Running on time and downhill into Minot, the Chicago-bound "Empire Builder" flies high over Gassman Coulee and against a picturesque July sunset.

A rebuilt SD60 highballs a work train south to Meridian, Miss. from Irondale, Ala. seen passing through Coaling, Ala. and some scrap metal that littered the right of way.

As the EOT of a Northbound manifest blinks into the night, NS 3387 awaits to be drug back to the Tuscaloosa Yard to tie down.

Sitting alone and forgotten is a bad ordered CSX coal hopper, which has made the end of the Warrior #7 mine track its home until it is remembered again.

With snow flurries falling, Montana Rail Link's "Day Gas Local" slices through the Rocky Mountains and across the Clark Fork River between Paradise and St. Regis. It's not hard to see wh... (more)

Southern 4501 departs Grand Junction with TVRM 100, the "Missionary Ridge Local." Off to the side is SOU 5000 waiting for its call to the dinner train later that evening.

NS 385 (Irondale, AL - Mobile, AL) proceeds south through Bessemer, Ala. after holding for a few hours for some AGS South traffic to go by. They will cross over mains to get onto the 3B Sub to run... (more)