The Heart of the Hartwell looks more like a scrapyard next to a defunct railroad that would be incredibly awesome to see any train traverse the rails. This is located on their original line betwee... (more)

A quick drive over to the Hartwell in the afternoon paid off with a late run south out of Toccoa with the Ex-Con & Ex-J SD38 doing the honors.

Venus and Mars shine in the overhead sky as a former CNW GP9 sits with Ex Conrail and St. Lawrence & Atlantic units on the Hartwell Railroad in Bowersville, Georgia.

Our planetary neibor Venus shines brightly overhead as a sky dotted in accompanying stars drifts over north Georgia while a silent night is had on the Hartwell Railroad. The Chicago Northwestern G... (more)

Looks like Hartwell had a not so minor mishap sometime this week. Crews are seen transferring the loaded feed cars into trucks before they are cleared of the ROW.

Hartwell 1973 (ex-Conrail 7874) takes two empty centerbeam cars north from Royston. At Bowersville it will supposedly join another unit and a string of covered hoppers to make the road freight to ... (more)

The sun breaks through the thick clouds hovering over northeast Georgia, making a neon scene out of the Hartwell Railroad as it negotiates the former Southern line toward Bowersville while dense s... (more)

The hills of north Georgia overlook a ribbon of jointed steel rail that negotiates the landscape formerly dominated by the Southern Railway. A Hartwell Railroad southbound glides out of Toccoa beh... (more)

Hartwell Railroad's former St. Lawrence & Atlantic GP40-2 is coming into Toccoa for their transfer run to Norfolk Southern. They would drop off a cut of cars, work a small siding just outside the... (more)

Hartwell Railroad's former St. Lawrence & Atlantic GP40-2 leads a cut of cars to Toccoa for interchange with Norfolk Southern.

One of my personal favorite locomotives on the Hartwell Railroad roster is this well worn and rusted former CONRAIL GP38. Here it is seen pulling a small cut of cars out of a storage track in Toc... (more)

The crew of the Hartwell Railroad is coupling a cut of cars on the mainline while another cut of cars is waiting to enter Rose Acres Feed Mill with HRT's former Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway eng... (more)

The crew of the Hartwell Railroad is shoving a cut of cars back into Rose Acres Feed Mill with their former Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway engine in charge. Shortly before this, the mainline tra... (more)

Former EJ&E SD38 654 couples a cut of storage cars off the old HRT line to Hartwell to clear the line for a rare run out to Hartwell which would to my misfortune happen the following morning.

Even after 60 years of service, former Illinois Central GP10 No. 8396 continues a life of revenue service as power on the Athens Line railroad alongside an ex-Conrail GP38