JTCX 5809 cuts away from 5711 and train to allow for the necessary switching moves to get both units and the three passenger cars in their correct spots for the Streamliners at Spencer event.

Bennett Levin's PRR-painted E8s lead three matching cars down the old Southern Danville District mainline. These units departed Manassas, VA at 8:15am and made a sprint southward toward the NCTM f... (more)

An empty grain train from Monetta, SC returns northbound on the Charlotte District. The train is drifting down the hill at Five Row, only a few miles from changing crews at the farmer's crossing a... (more)

Linwood to Macon train 119 rounds the curve at Summit Avenue with the Carolina Panthers stadium and rest of the Charlotte skyline looming overhead.

With perhaps the lashup of the year (which is extremely hard to determine this year) out front, NS train 213 flies through Buford, GA on a nasty March evening. An ex-ATSF SD75I, still wearing its ... (more)

NS autorack local P11 makes a rare daylight run down the mainline toward Atlanta. Local train P15 assembled their train earlier in the day, so upon arrival in Commerce, the crew had to grab power,... (more)

Having started the day with an FRA-dead engine, P48 ended up getting a late start, forcing a late afternoon southbound run, which I certainly did not mind. Here, they're seen placing two loads in ... (more)

Charlotte to Atlanta intermodal train 221 grinds upgrade into Flowery Branch behind two Conrail holdovers that are still serving on the NS system. The slick rail is not making the crew's day much ... (more)

NS local train P16, which runs from Gainesville to Commerce via the NE-Line (Commerce Branch), slows to stop and let out conductor Jack to line the train onto the branch line. One person had alrea... (more)

Running two and a half hours late, Amtrak 19, the southbound Crescent, crosses over to track 2 at Red Lane for its station stop in Gainesville. With a Dash 8 second out and a rebuilt Viewliner din... (more)

Norfolk Southern's sleek Office Car Special soars over the 1915 Wells Viaduct at 60 or so miles per hour on a beautiful early summer afternoon. The train is loaded with executives, bound to Greenv... (more)

NS 951, an Office Car Special loaded with executives, flies north by a soon-to-be-activated control point at the south leg of the wye to the Commerce Branch on its extremely fast run to Greenville... (more)

Northbound half-mile rail train 913 has made great time up the district out of Armour Yard in Atlanta and is seen here sliding down the mountain in downtown Toccoa.

NS 204 stops at the Toccoa Amtrak station to meet Amtrak 19 on National Train Day. This would unfortunately be the only sunlight of the day, though train traffic was quite good, making up for the ... (more)

NS 204 slowly rolls up to the Toccoa Amtrak station to hold for a meet with Amtrak 19, the southbound Crescent, which is at the end of the double track about 5 miles to the north. Northbounds don'... (more)