There's a Pumpkin Baby Boat on the Bridge! Very few, if any know about this spot along Pickens' Honea Path to Anderson Line along the Ex. Blue Ridge Railroad. After a decent hike down to th... (more)

The afternoon P&L switcher pulls a cut of cars down to the NS crossing at 14th street. He will take the wye and shove into NS Magnolia Yard

One of only two units on the roster that has not yet received PAL paint.

Tennessee Southern GP30 523 leading a train through the rural scene at Campbell Station, TN.

Ex-TRRA unit minimally relittered. That's pretty much the old C&G way, just gettin' by.

Just your average century-old shortline engine house

Aberdeen & Rockfish #400 sits in the railroad's Aberdeen engine house

One last move before heading to Social Circle. RTEX has another switcher ready for shipment so the Great Walton crew used the two Covington Branch units to pull the unit out of the plant and then ... (more)

A sharp looking PAL GP38-2 demonstrates its obvious SP heritage with a full sized plow and headlight configuration. This unit began life as SSW 7262, a late model GP40-2.

Two of Tennessee Southern’s six rebuilt GP9’s sit on a siding on a clear fall evening. Patriot Rail’s paint scheme is one of the sharpest being used today.

Caney Fork & Western’s GP9 531 sits outside their shop building in McMinnville, TN. This unit is former Western Railway of Alabama 531.

The purple martins have left and missed the furious railfan chase of this train just in from Paris. Here the train is on CSX track 2 and being pulled east to the terminal by the transloader by the... (more)

This was a great operation but never seemed to be able to catch them out on the road. At the time the Holiday Inn there was the cheapest in the entire US ($16 a night).

The TTI job has coal empties as they roll south back toward Paris. Today this job ran out of Paris with coal loads for Maysville. This job ran with power on both ends with the loads, at Maysville ... (more)