A CSX ballast train sits at the Agusta terminal unasigned on a frigid winter afternoon. The lead locomotive, CSXT 2201, is a former GP30 rebuild, now a road slug.
If you wait long enough a train will come. We knew an NS freight from Columbia, S.C., went to Augusta, Ga., every night sometime after midnight, turned, and headed back to Columbia. Thus, we were ... (more)