The CCH 3349 sits quietly on one of the locomotive yard tracks near the CCH's mobile office as it waits for its crew to arrive and bring it to life in a little over an hour.

With the conductor safely onboard, the lite power making up the night time running Mahrt Turn heads for the NS Columbus yard... (more)

Orion’s Vader-Hood
One of newest signal installations along the former Western Railway of Alabama mainline displays a bright clear signal as the hunter constellation and numerous ot... (more)

A nostalgic looking General Railway Signal Co. searchlight displays a bright red stop signal at the Longview control point after the passage of a train minutes earlier. While this signal seemed l... (more)

As the nocturnal Mahrt Turn waits for the dispatcher to give them a track warrant south to the mill, this very friendly crew parks the train on the Alabama side of the Chattahoochee River and allo... (more)

The LRWN 1504 looks nice against the blue hour sky as it sits in the CCH yard after having returned from the mill where it was taken ... (more)

Blast Off
With an nocturnal schedule ahead of them due to MoW work, the nightly Mahrt Turn departs their yard and heads over to NS for a pickup of tonight's train. Photo taken wit... (more)

With no track warrant coming their way anytime soon and a blessing from the friendly crew for a photo to be taken, the opportunity presents itself to illuminate the nighttime running Mahrt Turn as... (more)

The power for tonight's Mahrt Turn sits quietly in their yard under the blue hour sky as they await the on duty start time of 19:00 for their crew to bring them back to life for another journey so... (more)

A recent addition to the Columbus and Chattahoochee line up is a caboose still in the Bay Line colors and lettering which may soon serve as a shoving platform for this relatively new railroad oper... (more)

The lite power of W073 sits tied down on the Notasulga storage track as the stars can be seen streaking overheard. For another view of this consist, more)

A classic EMD SD40-2 built in 1974 for the L&N, still earns its keep for the railroad as it spends the night on the Notasulga Siding waiting for another train of ballast to pull somewhere.

The familiar headlights of CSXT 7914 illuminate the General Railway Signal Co. searchlight signal that stands guard at contro... (more)

As the early morning light is minutes away, a very bright and full moon quickly descends into the horizon as the Crimson Tide painted GP35 idles away, ready for another day of work in Tuscaloosa.

Look Mom...no coupler!
This Friday the 13th finds an unlucky CP auto rack as it has been tagged "bad order" and set out in West Point due to a lack of coupler. The car must now wait ... (more)