One of the cowardly lions passes tied down grainer 44Z-29 with a BNSF H2 leader. The yellow nose stands out against the otherwise drab winter colors.
The Lehigh Valley Black Diamond passes a dead in the water black catfish. Manifest 361-25 has to set off on the single track at Dalton. It dogged just over 35 miles from origin due to prioritizi... (more)
Colorful steamship boxes trail a pair of catfish dropping down the 1.8% grade on the north side of Braswell Mountain.
With the Lehigh Valley leading, Kansas City, MO-Jacksonville, FL automotive train 285 leans into the curve at the C.P. Norton holdout signal.
After a foot of snow and the resulting fallen trees shut the line down for ~24 hours in December 2017, NS is doing some major clearing on the Atlanta North District.
One of the Tweety Birds crosses a full Chattahoochee River with an extra train of export Mercedes. A week earlier the river level was somewhere between my feet & knees.
NS #361 rolls onto double track at CP Finch as it climbs Braswell Mountain
BNSF SD70ACe's #8426 & #9281 leads 135 loads of Powder River coal up Braswell Mountain bound for Georgia Powers Plant Scherer.
UP AC4400CW #6818 leads NS 22N (Memphis,TN - Atlanta,GA) by the DPU's of a BNSF Scherer empty.
As the last bit of Fall color holds on NS 22N (Memphis, TN - Atlanta, GA) rockets South through the cut at Collegedale.
The Macon bound freight grinds up the Braswell Mountain grade with a Union Pacific SD70M leading a PRLX (EX CSX) AC6000CW.
Loaded grain train 52Q sprints through the sag at Powder Springs with NS SD60I #6738 leading
Norfolk Southern Atlanta,GA - Memphis,TN intermodal train 23N rolls down Braswell Mountain past the 104.1 signal on a gorgeous Friday afternoon.
It's still possible to be surprised in this age of information. Other than the yard tracks in the foreground, the Grinstein Green SD70MAC with intact BNSF nose logo is the oldest railroad element... (more)
New Norfolk Southern SD70ACe's #1188 & #1185 bring Memphis,TN - Atlanta,GA intermodal train 22N through Mableton,GA on a cold morning.
