On a warm spring morning, the Landrum, SC train order semaphore's top color aspects are illuminated by the large fireball in the sky. Another day has dawned, but there still hasn't been another tr... (more)

With Orion and his belt standing guard in the dark sky, the impressive figure of Norfolk Southern's inactive signal at Melrose, the bottom of the Saluda Grade is also quite a presence.

Southbound MofW train 937 hurries through the CP at Metler (Liberty, SC) with an uncommon (to these parts) GP59 running all out. Moments earlier, the train would not move, but after enough tinkeri... (more)

After making its turn, NS local train P91 runs south over the Seneca River Trestle on the return trip from Greenville to Gainesville. Five classic EMDs are in this consist.

Utilizing the Stonewall Connection from the A&WP Sub to the Manchester Sub, Brunswick, GA-bound grain train is about to pass a vintage Seaboard signal with a clean AC6000 leader on a pleasant earl... (more)

Southbound manifest Q611 has just come off the Stonewall Connection from the Manchester Sub (technically Atlanta Terminal Sub until Peachtree City) and is passing a vintage A&WP crossing on that m... (more)

Southbound manifest Q611 rounds the curve in downtown Union City on the old Atlanta & West Point Route. Leading the way is a ratty YN3 SD70MAC.

In the last light of a perfect early spring day, Bradenton, FL to Cincinnati, OH intermodal/Tropicana juice train Q042 flies over the Etowah River. At this point, the crew which started their day ... (more)

Zipping through the s-curve in Emerson, CSX manifest Q542 proceeds north as the sun gets low in the sky. Of interest, an EMD SW of some sort and a scale test hopper were in the consist.

An FURX ex-NS GP38-2 leads CSX local train Y120-07 back to Wyvern Yard on the K&A Subdivision in Cartersville after a full day of working industries south on the W&A mainline.

With 5 engines in the contest, manifest train Q540 proceeds north from a meet at NE Emerson. Its next stop is a few miles ahead in Cartersville, where it will set off 24 cars and the ex-NS, now FU... (more)

Soaring over the Etowah River, CSX work train W959 proceeds north with two vintage SD50-2s on the point on a crystal clear early spring day.

The Western & Atlantic main is elevated through downtown Emerson, which is rapidly expanding into an outdoor recreation town. Meanwhile, CSX Q581 is creeping down the siding up to the south end of... (more)

Two brand new GEVOs lead Q539-06 south on the fill over the Etowah River Valley.

Two gray KCS AC4400CWs on the point of Charlotte, NC to Atlanta, GA intermodal train 221 sit at the Mecaslin Street intermediate signals, just south of Southern Railway's Brookwood Station. The br... (more)