The Drive-By Truckers might say, a Dirty Heritage in the Dirty South.

NS 220 17 creeps up to the signal on the main. A relatively clean P42 on AMTK19 17 (Amtrak #19, The Crescent) rolls through the siding and reflects the leased KCS bernurnur.

With only 4 motors at Elizabeth, the 35 loads of CSX corn had to be split up. Here, the first 21 loads crawl through Noonday on their way to the Pilgrim's Pride feed mill.

My son Graham wanted to take some choo-choo pictures, so we stopped on the way to get pizza. Today's Atlanta-Cartersville turn had a decent YN2 leader in the evening sun.

With plentiful run-through trains, Atlanta boasts a variety of power. Seen here are UP & BNSF DPU's on empty Powder River Basin coal train 733 07 and a trio of KCS Belle's on 220 07 Meridian Spee... (more)

Per NSDash9.com, the leader is the first of 100 AC44C6M rebuilds from GE Ft Worth, TX... but except for the fresh paint, it might as well still be #9108. Atlanta-Croxton train 212 has already gra... (more)

Whole lotta leaser 40's on a Norfolk Southern empty grainer. On the cusp of the Great Recession, NS still had a good bit of supplemental motive power.

One of the last Georgia Northeastern grainers returns corn empties south to the CSX interchange at Elizabeth. Pilgrim's Pride is constructing a new unit train capable mill in Ranger, GA; replacin... (more)

Any hobby can be frustrating and challenging, but if it was easy then everybody would have a photo of an EMD/Progress Rail/Caterpillar Tier-4 demonstrator hauling an entire train of Toyota Corolla... (more)

The engine hood looks different than the SD70ACe's that I'm used to, but it's not bad. KCS seems to be squeezing a lot of miles out of them and I haven't heard of any major negatives, so hopefull... (more)

An unexpected Friday afternoon southbound on the GNRR with their EMD 567 leading 24/3 freight. Marble chips are booming, with 23 loaded hoppers making up the majority of the train.

A Chattanooga, TN to Greenville, SC freight snakes through the southern tendrils of the Appalachians with a converted alternating current catfish in the lead.

A local from Howells Yard has picked up the block swap off Q581 and departs south for the Doghouse in Union City, GA. The faded but increasingly rare Yellow Nose II painted leader was appreciated... (more)

"A study in SD40 rebuilds." A PTC equipped Sadmiral Cab SD40-2 leads and Eco-Puke on a Whitaker Yard to Inman Yard intermodal transfer, seen here crossing the Hooch.

I don't do drones, but a parking garage is right up my alley. Running Southern RR style, Doraville to South Yard turn P51 takes the south leg of the Wye at Howell Tower, as 212-08 takes the north... (more)