CSX 650 rounds a curve in Woodland. Plumes of black smoke drift to the sky as this powerful engine moves along the track.

This train was running on Warm Springs' CSX track. President Franklin Roosevelt's Little White House is near this location.

SAM Shortline sits at the platform in historic Plains, GA.

As the SAM Shortline Excursion Train moved through the Americus cut, I photographed it while standing on the Lee Street overpass. Wisteria blossoms tumbled over both sides of the track.

Heart of Georgia 1209 has just pulled the SAM Shortline Excursion Train into historic Plains, GA. During President Carter's term in Washington, announcements made from this seemingly innocuous de... (more)

HOG 1309 is pictured as it rounds a curve in Leslie. It is pulling the Savannah-Americus-Montgomery Railway (SAM) Shortline Excursion Train.

SAM Shortline has just pulled into Georgia Veterans State Park. At this stop, additional passengers will board the train.

This is one of Cordele's diamonds. Here, the Norfolk Southern intersects with the Heart of Georgia.

HOG #1309 is waiting to pull the silver-and-blue cars of the SAM Shortline Excursion Train. On a sidetrack, two CSX engines seem ready to race the HOG.

In this scene, CSX 7614 is pounding one of Cordele's diamonds. In the background, the viewer will note a unique concrete water tank.

In this scene, HOG #1309 sits at the Cordele depot. On this day, it will pull the SAM Shortline Excursion Train.

In a flood of sunshine, HOG engine 1309 prepares to cross one of Cordele's diamonds. The HOG is proudly pulling the SAM Shortline Excursion Train.

I photographed this engine as it thundered through downtown Fitzgerald.

This train was running on the CSX track near Osierfield. I was not able to identify the lead engine; it was pulling two CSX units.