Pusher train P34 shoves the last few cars of Q44 over the top of the grade at Ridgecrest and is about to coast down the mountain to Old Fort.

A second-section 744 loaded coal train battles gravity as they pull to the top of the grade at Ridgecrest in late evening light. The train will soon begin its descent down the famous Southern Loop... (more)

T31 soars over one of the many small valleys between Canton and Asheville on a perfectly clear December day. The train is almost back to its home terminal and has a good string of loaded cars in t... (more)

After working Asheville, the T31 turn is running back west to Canton with one of two Blue Ridge Southern SD40-2 carbody engines leading. This unit also has a lighter shade of yellow and is the onl... (more)

Blue Ridge Southern's T31 train crosses the French Broad River as it Norfolk Southern's yard in Asheville. The train will work for about an hour before heading back west to Canton.

Blue Ridge Southern's Canton-Asheville turn T31 starts their day by shoving back into the Evergreen paper mill to drop off their current cut of cars and pull a cut of empty woodchip hoppers out.

Ex-Seaboard System SD50 8500, now rebuilt into an SD50-2 and in CSX's YN3 paint scheme, leads southbound juice train Q041 into downtown Atlanta. In the background, Norfolk Southern's intermediate ... (more)

Two CSX GEs sit at the point of a tied down Atlanta Division local. Since the temperature is consistently dropping below freezing every night, the engines are left running to prevent the water fro... (more)

Thanksgiving: I don't think much more needs to be said about this shot. It shows what I'm thankful for, and there's a turkey-colored unit leading this train of BMWs and imported goods. Happ... (more)

CSX train K443 rolls up the ex-Central of Georgia main 1 in downtown Atlanta behind an HLCX SD40-2, which was at one point owned by BCOL, a DM&E ex-CP SD40-2, a CP SD40-2, and NS SD70, and a CSX C... (more)

The first unit of Kansas City Southern's final SD70ACe order before "upgraded" emissions standards take effect works with a KCS SD70MAC to bring NS train 237 across the CSX diamond in downtown Atl... (more)

In the midst of a heavy summer downpour, CSX autorack train Q217 hurries across the Potomac River bridge into downtown Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Minutes later, the rain would stop, but the clo... (more)

A mother-slug set pulls a cut of hump cars ahead in Tilford Yard. The shops are full of quite a bit of power right after sunset, and given the nature of North America's railroads at this point in ... (more)

Commerce-Gainesville local freight P15 ducks under the soon-to-fall Southern Railway signal bridge at Red Lane as the northeast Georgia fall colors reach their peak.

Fieldale grain train power sits tied down on one of the two Fieldale Farms leads beside Apple Pie Ridge Road. The two red units have brought even more color to the already gorgeous fall foliage in... (more)