Squaw Creek's ex-UP tunnel motor slowly rolls through the small town of Shady Dale to pick up its train from the NS interchange a short ways down the line, which they will take back to Madison.

INRD SAHW with a trio of shiny red SD90's soars high over Shuffle Creek. The 100's of miles of driving, zero sleep and 3 hours of waiting were instantly forgotten as the train roared into the scen... (more)

Two generations of Southern switchers at SERM.

Hartwell power resting in Paradise Valley over the weekend.

As we came over the bridge across the Tennessee River into South Pittsburg I was ecstatic to find this gem sitting in full sun behind a local Sonic resteraunt. Upon seeing this I quickly pulled in... (more)

Chug a lug lugging five miles an hour........

Former Yadkin Valley Railroad 201 now serves the Sequatchie Valley railroad as the plant switcher for US Gypsum. The SQVR is one of the strangest operations I have seen. The line has an inordinate... (more)

First Coast road power tied up at the Fernandina Beach yard overnight, waiting to take the train to yulee the next day.

The 21st century Southern Crescent While it has been 32 years since the scenic curve at Cook Springs has been graced with the presence of Southern #1 and #2, Norfolk Southerns beautiful OC... (more)

The 11th hour The clock is winding down unit by on CSX's Dash 7's fleet with only 21 units left. So it was a welcome site to see this tattered veteran highballing it through Marietta even i... (more)

A line up of high speed power at Paddington station. Up front is a Paxman Valenta class 43 HST, behind it are 2 newer but less reliable Adelante DMU's. All were living on borrowed time, the HST l... (more)

Ambling down the track we run into our first obstacle, a pine tree that has fallen across the tracks. Without a working chain saw and the promise of bigger obstacles the crew decided to do the swi... (more)

After months of this unit either trailing or running in cloudy weather, us Atlanta railfans finally got a crack at this awesome unit on the point of grain train 58A. Here the train is seen highbal... (more)

One from the archives, the elusive EMD 710 ECO demonstrator rests at South Yard in Atlanta, the unit was being tested on the 140/139 Macon to Atlanta job.

One last move before heading to Social Circle. RTEX has another switcher ready for shipment so the Great Walton crew used the two Covington Branch units to pull the unit out of the plant and then ... (more)