The six-days-a-week Pine Belt Southern turn from LaFayette slides down CSX toward the downtown NS crossing.

As dark clouds loom over the downtown Metro Nashville skyline we see both Nashville & Western Nº 4245 still sporting it's classy Santa Fe Blue Bonnet paint scheme is resting next to stable mate N... (more)

Regardless of number of axles or horsepower, this is pretty much the face of almost all of the hundreds of GE Dash-7s; a face you have to visit shortlines to see these days.

Coastal winds and the brewing storm above whip past Fore River Transportation number 101 as they shove a cut of Technical Tallow loads into the Twin Rivers Technology plant. Both impending storm c... (more)

One of Meridian Southern’s former Conrail B23-7s rests in Quitman, MS.

One of Meridian Southern’s former Conrail B23-7s rests in Quitman, MS.

One of SMS's more recent acquisitions, former Conrail B23-7 #1900, is seen working in the South Jersey swamp on a clear but cool March Sunday.

As the sun sets, the Pureland crew is busy digging out storage cars near Sharptown Road using ex-Santa Fe B23-7 #4211

After a painfully slow trip down the decrepit former Southern/CofG from Lafayette, the Pine Belt Southern crew waits for the go-ahead from CSX to run a couple miles down their former WofA main int... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

Meridian Southern Railroad’s pair of ex-Santa Fe B23-7 are seen basking in the afternoon sun in Waynesboro, MS. MDS 4270 MDS 4228

Shiny, year-old 4653 leads two of MP's oldest and dustiest U23Bs on a freight out of St Louis. This train came down the line on the 'Missouri side' through Bismarck. The line peeling off to the ... (more)