The second local pulls into Elizabeth not even 5 minutes behind the first one with a trio of geeps running long hood forward. CSX's W&A sub is in the foreground.
One of the last YN2-painted SD70MACs leads loaded grain shuttle G101-10 by the Western and Atlantic Railway station in the heart of Marietta, GA on a perfect late summer day.
On a September day that's literally as perfect as they get weather-wise, one of CSX Transportation's last YN2-painted SD70MACs leads a unit grain train down the Western and Atlantic mainline towar... (more)
It is easy to see why the L&N chose a completely different alignment for their Knoxville to Atlanta mainline. While running only 10mph, the Georgia Northeastern still does a good job maintaining ... (more)
468 miles to Louisville by the way of L&N's 'Hook & Eye' Line. Long gone are Alco RS3's and FA's hauling freights but you can still find a nice variety of older EMD locomotives on the Georgia Nort... (more)
With Kennesaw Mountain in the background, a GP20/GP9/GP38/GP20 consist lug a 41 car freight out of Elizabeth on their way north to Tate.
Other than the nose mounted vertical headlight, it would be difficult to tell this was once an AT&SF 3,600hp racehorse. Glad to see it is still earning it's keep for the timebeing.
CSX train Q582-25 (Atlanta,GA - Nashville,TN) is tied down on main 1 in Marietta awaiting a road crew to bring it north to Chattanooga. Canadian National SD60F #5555 is in the lead position this e... (more)
With winter storm Remus putting most of the southeast under its grasp, the trains keep rolling. The irony of it, as an employee of CSX down in Atlanta for training, our class was canceled today du... (more)
A relatively new and clean UP Gevo leads CSX stack train Q144 (Memphis,TN - Atlanta,GA) through Marietta,GA on a pristine winter afternoon.
CSXT 8778 leads a string of auto racks through Marietta and south towards Atlanta.
The road train comes into the yard at Elizabeth
The northbound road train departs Pacesetter Steel among grey skies and drizzle.
The last grain train of the year works its way north across Blackwell Road with the standard six geeps. The lead unit is an ex high hood Nickel Plate Road GP18 that recently had a face lift.