A set of PREX GP16's is seen resting on the Mississippi Central Railroad in Holly Springs, MS., on a beautiful spring afternoon

PREX 7, a Jordan Spreader, sits more or less on display at what has become its permanent home by the Mississippi Central Station in Holly Springs.

MSCI 488 pulls into the Mississippi Central yard in Holly Springs, Mississippi with a cut of cars from storage that will be handed off to BNSF later here at Holly Springs.

MSCI 488 rolls south past the Ex-IC Victorian Style Holly Springs Station. The cut of cars behind 488 are from storage and will be handed to BNSF here at Holly Springs later.

After waiting for a local to take the siding here at CP Tours (after dropping cars off at MSCI), BNSF 4892 has a clear track south as it departs Holly Springs, Mississippi. Rust College can be see... (more)

MSCI 488 leads a cut of cars south past the BNSF tracks and back onto MSCI tracks.

Deer! Its spring in the south as a pair of deer wander across the rickety tracks of the Mississippi Central. In the background MSCI 488 slowly approaches with a cut of cars from storage going sout... (more)

A BNSF local drops a cut of cars off at the Mississippi Central interchange.

MSCI 488 heads back south towards Holly Springs, Mississippi.

A southbound BNSF stack train rolls through Holy Springs, Mississippi, on the Birmingham Sub.

A pair of rebuilt GP16 workhorses are seen at the Mississippi Central Holly Springs yard in North Mississippi. PREX 1604 was built in 1950 as a GP7 for the Charleston and Western Carolina Railway.... (more)

MSCI 1604 leads a cut of cars south for storage just a few miles from Holly Springs.

MSCI 488 leads a cut of cars south to Holly Springs, MS.

MSCI 488 leads a cut of cars south for storage.

My last shot of 2018 came a few weeks ago when the clouds slightly parted enough to give light to this SB intermodal.