The 5,000th Evolution Series locomotive built by GE leads a southbound bound mixed freight past the Meridian Amtrak station on a pleasant Sunday morning. The train has a just been refueled and wi... (more)

Trading the snow for humidity. You might think this former Conrail unit is sitting in the weeds waiting for scrap but you would be wrong. This is one of the handful of old GE Dash 7 locomotives ... (more)

The northbound Crescent has traveled about 200 miles from New Orleans to make a station stop in downtown Meridian, Mississippi. Both Norfolk Southern and Kansas City Southern put a halt to their ... (more)

After cutting off from the rest of their train, the Kansas City Southern SHAR (Shreveport, LA-Artesia, MS) job backs into the small KCS yard in Meridian to pull out a cut of crude oil tank cars. ... (more)

A former Frisco unit is all that can be found in the small Kansas City Southern yard in downtown Meridian on a pleasant, early May morning. This locomotive was built in 1979 and worked for the Fr... (more)

A westbound Kansas City Southern mixed freight rolls through the kudzu covered terrain in downtown Vicksburg, Mississippi. Kudzu, which was introduced to the United States from Japan in 1876, is ... (more)

A unit coal train bound for Louisiana gets ready to head south after meeting a northbound intermodal. Many of the coal trains on the former Illinois Central come out of Wyoming's Powder River Bas... (more)

A Chicago bound Canadian National intermodal works his way through the Mississippi Delta on a seasonable Saturday morning. This daily train originates in New Orleans, Louisiana and works Jackson,... (more)

A Canadian National mixed freight heads south on the former Illinois Central mainline in the Delta region of western Mississippi. The train is just north of the town of Tchula (pronounced Chew-La... (more)

A northbound Canadian National freight flies by the Amtrak station in the small, western Mississippi community of Greenwood. This train was mostly tank cars and covered hoppers gathered from the ... (more)

While working my way through the state of Mississippi, I stopped by the Greenwood Amtrak station to see if Canadian National had any power parked for the weekend. Thankfully, CN had a former Gulf... (more)

Montgomery, Alabama to Waycross, Georgia local A723 is seen stretching out of the small CSX yard in Thomasville, Georgia. Thomasville is known as the "City of Roses" and holds an annual... (more)

The "Heartland" is well represented in this photo. A 2,000 HP locomotive is seen working in the heart of Georgia near the large West Rock facility outside of Dublin. In the background, a Heartla... (more)

You never know what you might find down a rural two lane road in Georgia. I was informed this is a former Baltimore & Ohio bay window caboose that, at one time, was parked by the Georgia Central ... (more)

Power for the Mississippi Export is seen tied down waiting for a run to Pascagoula, Mississippi the next day. Mississippi Export 67 was originally built for the Canadian Pacific in 1986. The tra... (more)