A dirty glow worm still shines brightly.

A lucky break in the clouds as the Conrail cruises through a cut.

The Georgia Northeastern Marietta Switcher shoves north to work Pacesetter Steel Services.

The Pennsylvania RR heritage leads a New Orleans-Macon freight past a Christmas Tree Farm.

Colorful steamship boxes brighten up the muted fall colors, a part of recently added train 292. 292 is a second intermodal from Austell, GA to Georgia Port Authority, Garden City, GA to handle gr... (more)

An ACe passes the relatively new control point at Finley, where the siding was extended south to create a section of double track.

Shortline customer service... on an off-day for marble aggregate traffic, running 6 miles to pick up a single car of specialty resin from Standridge Color in Jasper, GA.

A unit train of brand new Mercedes-Benz autos heads for the Port of Brunswick, GA... Southern RR style. I've always dug long hood forward GE's.

Phase IV leads a new Siemens in Phase VII paint. Phase IV was brand new when I started taking pictures 30 years ago... cool to see it leading what will soon take over. Reports are that crews wil... (more)

Even if the locomotive may have fallen out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down... a great paint scheme makes it all ok. The Honoring Veterans locomotive drags an Inman Yard-Indu... (more)

New Charlotte, NC-Jacksonville, FL intermodal 281 knocks down the signal at Grove. Named for the town of Locust Grove just south of here, it's one of the few interlockings to entirely retain it's... (more)

Everyone loves a good shortline pic, with Patriot Rail motors formerly assigned to the CLC mixed with Georgia Northeastern diesels.

Another fan captures foreign power passing through downtown Marietta, GA.

A throwback leader made for a good 46th birthday. Formerly Conrail 3322, it's still wearing it's first coat of CSX paint... and potentially it's last CSX paint.

Shortlines doing what they do best, serving smaller carload customers with specific switching requirements.