While this loaded grain train is symbolled as CSX G452, you really wouldn’t know it based on the locomotive power up front. With a mix of Eastern, Mid-west and Western power, this southbound tr... (more)

The daily local train of A746 runs long-hood forward this afternoon as it brings 14 loads and 5 empties up the hill into Auburn passing the new XXB 114 signal. This new Safetran Vader hood was re... (more)

The A052 aggregate ballast train spends the evening on the storage track in Notasulga after a busy two days of dumping rock between Opelika and Loachapoka. Although it may look to be alone at the... (more)

The early morning hours of a January night find a pair of CSX Gevos idling on the storage track in Notasulga. The eerie red glow from the interior cab light make these units look even more alive ... (more)

The last train of evening is K977 pulling empty ethanol tank cars north into West Point. The colorful pair of Canadian Pacific and CEFX leaser power make for an exciting consist as they pull on t... (more)

A rising full moon and moving clouds highlight this evening's blue hour as it begins to illuminate over the famous Spirit of B&O caboose currently sitting at the north end of the West Point siding... (more)

A very long Q143 starts to roll again as space has now been made inside CSX's Fairburn Intermodal Terminal to accommodate it. After a set-out and pickup, the train will then continue on south tow... (more)

Once the future of railroading with a promise of 6000hp from the manufacture, today the SD9043MAC finds itself as the oddball loco on the UP's roster. 23 such units are taking up space on track 5... (more)

Lite power in the form of foreign Norfolk Southern units return to Opelika after having dropped off their train of empty auto racks at the Kia automobile assembly plant in West Point, GA earlier i... (more)

The humid nighttime air in Notasulga is broken by a southbound R679, whose EOT light streaks are the only thing that show its presence here, as it moves through town much faster than the posted sp... (more)

Q619 has just emerged from the confines of the sturdy steel bridge built across the Chattahoochee River by the Virginia Bridge and Iron Company back in 1914. The train has only a few hundred feet... (more)

An interesting lash-up of EMD locomotives pulls this afternoon's Canon City local train out of the yard at Pueblo as it heads for the massive H... (more)

Classic EMD six axle power is at the head end of local train A84, as it sits parked on the mainline just west of downtown Calera this morning. Seeing it tied down here is something new since the ... (more)

Nearly two decades have passed since the last freight train rumbled through this passage and polished the rails at the continental divide. Today the famous Tennessee Pass tunnel lies dormant with... (more)

The Southern heritage unit has just completed its work at the Columbus yard across the Chattahoochee River in Georgia. Now on the Alabama side of the line, the specialty painted unit begins the j... (more)