What is the Sandersville all about?. Kaolin, plain and simple. Here with a huge string of the stuff a train heads back to town. If you want to watch switching done as it should be, check out th... (more)

Helpers on the rear of an eastbound coal train round the big curve near the junction with the Clinch Valley Sub. The head end is doing pretty well but soon everybody will be wide open to get the ... (more)

A westbound auto rack train bucks a stiff headwind. He’s already got his information for arrival in Bristol. You can feel the chill in the air and that old sundog above the locomotive portends f... (more)

A westbound local with a unit of SOU/NS heritage in the lead does some switching. Rain threatens.

Ex-CN “Cobras” on a northbound freight at SKOLs hub.

Southbound coal train with a two-unit head end with three DPUs.

Racing west as seen from the display caboose, between the restored passenger station and the 1857 station foreman’s House.

Westbound intermodal passes between the passenger station and the 1857 Foreman’s House.

DPU on a southbound coal train.

DPU on a southbound OFOX (lesser: Residco) limestone train is a late-model ES44AH (in CSX parlance). The rapid-dump hoppers appear to be repurposed coal cars. They were not completely full.

After they fell down on the hill just west of Whitesburg, a following freight jet a hand with a push now the coal is on the move again. The last two units were dead for some reason. Love those r... (more)

Easing “into the hole” a short westbound freight will do a little switching before heading on to St. Louis.

The local switcher returns south to the yard after some industrial switching. Earlier they were towing the big BNSF unit for some reason but as the cuts got bigger they put it on line.

“Wow, that thing is really loud” I can imagine our little spectator saying as yet another westbound stack train roars by this busy crossing just north of where the Transcon and the Texas lines div... (more)

The southbound “Saluki” is making a station stop. That’s not revenue traffic on the rear. These trains drag three empty baggage cars back and forth day after day to activate CN’s signals.