75 PTTX flats loaded with large diameter natural gas pipe are over halfway from Enola, PA to the Rail Logix Transload in LaCassine, LA where it will be offloaded and distributed to the field.

I've always enjoyed long hood forward GE's. NS' Mercedes-Benz trains are a good candidate and today was no exception.

A clean UP repaint leads NS #246 through Douglasville

After just meeting Amtrak 19, NS 28J gets their train back moving towards Austell and Atlanta. 4 UPs and a NS GE powers the train as their coast to coast journey is almost over.

A couple of EMD units wait with containers for crew members before continuing east towards Atlanta. The sun peeked out just for a moment allowing a better shot.

Norfolk Southern Train 153 heads westbound through Douglasville, GA., with a pair of BNSF C44-9W's still in the H1 paint scheme leading the way

Looks like this Union Pacific Ace unit was involved in an accident.

Norfolk Southern Train 226 heads eastbound through Douglasville, GA., with UP SD70ACe-T4 #3058 on the point

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)

EMDX SD70ACe-T4 #7208 leads Norfolk Southern hotshot Intermodal Train 220 east through Douglasville, GA.

NS 220 makes an eastbound run Douglasville, GA with the EMDX #7208 EMD SD70ACe-T4 unit leading and 2x Norfolk Southern GE locomotives trailing behind.

Norfolk Southern Intermodal Train 220 snakes through the curves at Douglasville, GA, as they head east to Atlanta, GA.

With a 13 month old daughter at the time, I have only a vague recollection of photographing this train... and I really liked the grey KCS paint on SD70ACe motors, in this case the class unit leadi... (more)

A friend visiting from Houston convinced me to go after a baretable intermodal en-route from Macon, GA-Rossville, TN with 93 wells of AOK 53's, pulled out of storage on the GSWR.

Not much for fall colors this year, but still a nice location.