The Southern heritage unit has just completed its work at the Columbus yard across the Chattahoochee River in Georgia. Now on the Alabama side of the line, the specialty painted unit begins the j... (more)

Crossing over the Chattahoochee River and into the land of Dixie, 137 creeps along slowly as its train departs the Columbus yard and heads to Birmingham with a western themed consist.

KCS 708 (specially marked with the Operation Lifesaver logo) leads two other SD50's and 33 loads of rock west out of Columbus, GA, and into Alabama, bound for interchange with the KCS at Meridian,... (more)

Merry Christmas
To help get others in the Holiday Spirit, a colorful Christmas Wreath has been placed on the front of CCH locomotives in hopes of spreading some holiday cheer.

The loaded tank cars full of Phenol show off their rail bending abilities as they move along the jointed rail of the State Do... (more)

The engineer gives a look back as he pulls the Brickyard train out of a customer’s track and back onto the State Docks lead with a cut of high side gondolas at the end.

The solitary Bay Line 2015, formerly known as Bay Line 509, is all that's needed to run today's Brickyard job as the little Geep heads into another one of the numerous customers located along the ... (more)

BAYL 1597 and MNA 509 work Continental Carbon along State Docks Rd in Phenix City, on the Columbus & Chattahoochee Railroad.

Standing out against the green scenery along the waterway, the bright orange locomotives of the Columbus and Chattahoochee cross their namesake river as the daily train prepares to leave the city ... (more)

As the nocturnal Mahrt Turn waits for the dispatcher to give them a track warrant south to the mill, this very friendly crew parks the train on the Alabama side of the Chattahoochee River and allo... (more)

With no track warrant coming their way anytime soon and a blessing from the friendly crew for a photo to be taken, the opportunity presents itself to illuminate the nighttime running Mahrt Turn as... (more)

With my friend Britt driving to get ahead of the train for the next photo location, this allowed for me to try a pace/reverse pan shot of the lead unit as we fly by it at 40mph.

After dropping off the Conductor, the Mahrt Turn pulls ahead as it prepares to uncouple from its first 20 cars and drop them off onto the State Dock's lead track.

While some of us get to enjoy this year's Labor Day, others still have to keep the economy going which is what we see today as the daily Mahrt Turn heads for the State Dock's lead to set out its f... (more)