The Pickens Railroad's Anderson Job is lit up by the early morning sun as it departs First Quality Tissue with a string a empties for both NS and the Greenville & Western.

With two U18B’s and two GP38’s, a Maine Central manifest heads north out od Rigby Yard in South Portland, Maine.

The Pickens has just picked up the two Alcos from the Greenville and Western and tows them a couple of miles to the siding at Docheno.

A Maine Central U18B that has arrived from Portland on Mountain Division train RY-2 rests outside the station at St. Johnsbury, VT. In the morning it will be on its way back to Rigby Yard.

The eastbound Belton job crosses Broadway Creek at a leisurely pace.

The Belton job has just made interchange with the Greenville and Western and rumbles southward to work a customer on the former Southern Railway/Columbia and Greenville line.

The Pickens Anderson approaches Belton.

The Pickens Anderson approaches Belton.

The Pickens Anderson job heads east with 6 cars for the Greenville and Western, passing a quarry about half way through its route.

In the early 1990s, this train ran with a pair of B30-7s perhaps 90-95% of the time, but anything could show up, as on this day when two U18Bs - one all bright, and one all stealthy - were a pleas... (more)

A train that originated in S&N yard is just a few hundred yards into its journey down the Dothan Sub as it passes below I-65 on a drizzly summer day. Just a few months earlier, power would have l... (more)

Kudzu isn't just a ground cover, it can really climb. The home-bound leg of the Richland-Columbus turn passes through a wonderland - or nightmare - of kudzu-covered ground and trees between Cusse... (more)

A couple of U18Bs bracket a U36B/slug set as a crew switches at Mulberry.

The Anderson job sits on top of one of the many humps on the roller coaster track on line to Gluck.

The Belton Job winds it's way around a tight S Curve outside of Anderson as it crawls back toward Belton on a dreary winter day. The paint adds a nice splash of color to the dark scene.