A welded rail train lead by a MAC begins it's duties of laying rail once given permission by the dispatcher. High priority train I143 is headed south, so this train has around an hour to get some... (more)
After being tied down earlier in the day, the combined power of A012 and W073 sit quietly in Notasulga as the wind howls and ... (more)
A quartet of EMD classics rest on the former Notasulga siding, it’s now just a storage track, with a pair of workhorses in the form of SD40-2 models at the front. Third out of this combined con... (more)
With their aggregate train neatly tucked away in Vulcan Materials, the lite power of A012 returns to the Loachapoka siding where it will couple onto more)
With the boxcar logo on its nose and a little over an hour before going on the law, the empty ballast train of A012 splits the signals at south end Opelika and blows by at 45mph as the aggregate t... (more)
With another day of unloading newly rolled Continuous Welded Rail along the Western Railway of Alabama complete, the mother slug set of A012 idle into the “blue hour” as it begins to show its ... (more)
Idling on the West Point siding, A012 and its trainload of newly rolled continuous welded rail sit and wait as the end of another November day comes to a close under the “blue hour” sky. In t... (more)
A012 is seen in the process of getting its locomotives wyed and will then head south to the siding at Wawbeek to pick up its loaded ballast hoppers for a trip onto the Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)Locomotive: GE C40-8 (Dash 8-40C)Location: Flomaton, Alabama, USALocomotive #: CSXT 7569Train ID: CSX A012Photo Date: December 29, 2010
After having "wyed" its locomotives earlier in the morning, A012 is now on the move with a loaded ballast train that it jus... (more)
In the evening light a ballast train participating in the construction of the new Loachapoka siding makes its way out of the Vulcan quarry and onto the mainline for the last time. Tomorrow the sw... (more)
A pair of EMD standard cabs rest for the night in the Notasulga siding after being tied down earlier. Tomorrow this set of locomotives will be the power for a ballast train that will put down fres... (more)
