A northbound NS grain train departs Chattanooga as it crosses the Tennessee River.

The empty grain train flies down the Braswell Mountain grade, heading North with one of the special paint schemed rebuilt DC to AC units leading the run.

Getting ready to take down the "advance approach" signal at Hitt (MP 233.7 Hitt) following the heel of NS 15T. The empty grain train NS 51Q will run up to the crew change point at brown, ending it... (more)

Westbound grain empties enter the yard at Bluefield.

Empty grain train 51Q and crew arrive in Gainesville with less than an hour remaining before they were to law out. From here, P14's crew (on their train at New Holland during this shot) would take... (more)

NS 51q splits the signals at the CP Baldwin, in Baldwin, Georgia, as the last bit of daylight fades into darkness on a quiet, November night in northeast Georgia. Just six days earlier, this scene... (more)

Empty grain train 51Q's three GE locomotives prepare to couple to the 75 outbound hoppers from the Mar-Jac feed mill to begin their trip back to the mainline and on to Gainesville where the train ... (more)

Westbound empty grain train 51Q passes the stored coal hoppers in the center siding at Vulcan.

After traveling NS' Christiansburg District from Roanoke, westbound grain empties arrive at Bluefield Yard featuring a former BNSF Warbonnet, NS SD70ACe, and Canadian National ES44DC. The saga of ... (more)

Fieldale grain train power sits tied down on one of the two Fieldale Farms leads beside Apple Pie Ridge Road. The two red units have brought even more color to the already gorgeous fall foliage in... (more)

A pair of Canadian Pacific GE's and a lone NS motor assemble an outbound empty grain train from the Fieldale Farms mill in Baldwin. With fall peak not far off for northeast Georgia, these two colo... (more)

After 51Q came off the branch in Lula, GA; he gets the clear to head South after PTI brought the conductor to the front. Here we see them take an approach to meet 222 at Chicopee just South of Gai... (more)

Following several overcast days, the sunshine and nearly cloudless skies return just in time as NS 51Q races towards Atlanta with a couple of Union Pacific motors leading the empty grain train thr... (more)

Empty grain train 51Q stretches over the rugged terrian of the Commerce Branch outside of the small town of Gillsville on a muggy August morning. The train made exceptional time during their 17 mi... (more)

Empty grain train 51Q, with a pair of BNSF D9-44CW's bracketing a lone NS D9-44CW, shoves back towards the Mar-Jac mill yard with most of the train assembled for the return trip north.