An afternoon running Q601 comes into view as it rounds the large curve on the north side of Opelika. A surprising pair of Canadian National visitors lead the way with over 7500 tons of freight, m... (more)

An evening fog has enveloped the city of Opelika as Q601 slices through it with 148 cars in tow. Tonight’s train has the pleasure of being lead by the CSX Spirit of First Responders unit as it ... (more)

A746 has just made it safely through the North College Street crossing in downtown Auburn. The loveliest village on the plains has certainly c... (more)

A matching set of BNSF painted locomotives have brought 98 empty covered hoppers to a stop near the control point of Middle Hanceville as they wait for northbound traffic to clear. The covered ho... (more)

It’s a cold January afternoon as A746 is in the middle of working its last customer of the day. With loaded boxcars at the head end with plywood from Norbord, the local grabs loaded center-beam... (more)

The crew of A746 has just finished dropping off their entire train at Opelika and head north as lite power. Just like the two doctors... (more)

A fast moving Q606 drops the holdout signal at Cusseta while disappearing into the night as it pulls 169 cars onward to the ultimate destination of Waycross, GA.

Shiny Eagle
Looking just as elegant as the day it rolled out of the Edward G. Budd Company manufacturing plant, the Missouri Pacific Planetarium Dome Coach 892 is back in its origina... (more)

Before the days of PSR on CSX, one could see loads of aggregate such as sand moving on entire unit trains. The rolling stock was railroad owned and some cars even retained fallen flag paint schem... (more)

A rare intermodal train for this line rolls through the desolate countryside of Cusseta as it heads south. The trio of paint schemes at the front of train X115 provide a nice contrast to the gree... (more)

A pair of GE units in the ever dwindling YN2 paint scheme lead southbound intermodal train Q101 past the babbling brooks of Garden City. The crew of this 8400 foot long train is almost done with ... (more)

Sunday morning finds local NS train A15 working the Roberta yard just west of downtown Calera. This yard primarily sees covered hoppers and open hoppers that are needed to serve the two quarries o... (more)

Following the trend set forth by other Class I Railroads, CSX has also decided to create special paint schemes to be applied onto some of its locomotives. While NS initially came up with a paint ... (more)

It’s a gorgeous morning as the second section of 186 (M86) glides into Salem and past the unique antiques store next to the tracks with a pair of KCS locomotives. The caboose in the back is a fo... (more)

It’s been a long night for this NS re-rail crew as they’ve had to move a loaded tank car and locomotive back onto the track after the two rolled a rail in downtown Opelika earlier in the day. ... (more)