Illinois Central SD70 #1019 leads CSX Q542 through downtown passing the adjacent NS signals at 'Grinnell'.

Q542 heads north by the Appalachian Regional Port with the 4535, one the first two engines to get the newly rebirthed YN3 paint scheme, on the point.

After working Wyvern Yard, Q542 accelerates north for Etowah, passing the milepost marker to mark 415 miles to Louisville, KY shortly after midnight.

Q542 takes it easy going through town as it gets ready to work North Yard.

CSX Q542 climbs the hills just outside of Waycross, GA on their way north to Cinncinati, OH. The clean YN2 CW44AC fourth in the consist has been repainted into YN3b since this photo was taken.

CSX Q542 (Waycross, GA to Cinncinati, OH) doubles out of Rice Yard in preparation for departure.

During the only decent snow of the winter, Q542 speeds past the NAS Searchlight signals at South End Singleton.

CSX Q542 passes by the calm pond at the Ryland Lakes Country Club as it heads towards the Queen City

CSX SD40-2 #8052 leads Q542 across the Etowah River on a gorgeous Wednesday afternoon.

Northbound manifest Q542 has just passed Sinks and the former Lebanon Branch connection and is about to enter Tunnel 18 on the scenic CC Subdivision.

Q542 pops out of tunnel 8 and rumbles onto bridge 36, beginning the climb out of the Kentucky River valley.

Coasting down Duff Mountain and high above the small community of Habersham, Tennessee, northbound manifest Q542 prepares to be walked through the switch at Oaks in a few miles. This train would ... (more)

Two KCS Belles and two "Big MACs," one belonging to TFM and one belonging to CSX, are on the point of daily manifest freight Q542 on CSX's KD Subdivision. This section of the line trave... (more)

Zipping through the s-curve in Emerson, CSX manifest Q542 proceeds north as the sun gets low in the sky. Of interest, an EMD SW of some sort and a scale test hopper were in the consist.

Two Canadian visitors team up with a regular on northbound manifest Q542. The train is crossing the Little River, which flows out of the Smokey Mountains through Townsend, Wallend, and Maryville,... (more)