After delivering one car to Mohawk Industries, the veteran crew of this EMD gets on their way to head back south.
Local job 121 hauls 66 general freight through the small section of street-running. Alabama Southern has a huge amount of local business in Tuscaloosa.
Mine run R618 drags train C23721, with 100 loads of coking coal, towards Alice Yard. The availability of high quality metallurgical coal is one reason steel mills like Sloss Furnace, in the backg... (more)
Bay Line 3018 takes the Hilton Turn over W Church Street in Columbia, AL roughly 1-2 miles from their destination of Hilton, GA. In Hilton, they will interchange with the CIRR and HAL then turn ba... (more)
An extra manifest, running as a unit train with 264 containers of New York City trash, passes under an abandoned ACL bridge on it's way to the landfill in Uniontown, AL.
Birmingham-Mobile #385 gets moving after meeting a northbound coming off the 3B District, passing the relatively large two story Alabama Great Southern RR Station.
Bay Line's Hilton turn cruises eastbound just outside of Webb, AL on their way toward Hilton, GA for interchange with the Chattahoochee Industrial Railroad (CIRR) and the Hilton and Albany (HAL).
The CSX transfer may have standard diesels, but at least the right of way is eco-friendly.
I photographed quite a few widecab GP40's growing up along the Grand Trunk Western in Michigan, so it was cool to catch a pair living out their retirement on the ATN.
126 empty mill gons head north for another load of steel ingots in the foothills of the Appalachians.
Canadian Pacific SD70ACU #7022 leads Norfolk Southern Train 245 westbound through Lovick, AL., on a foggy summer morning. CP #7022 was specially painted to honor the Navy.
One of only a handful of Bay Line painted locomotives, GP40-2 3018, leads the Hilton Turn eastbound at Jimbo Road outside of Dothan, AL.
An EMD rumble is heard through the woods of Broughton, as rail travels over the rail on CSX train W021 lead by a SD40-2 locomotive.
CSX Train I141-04 heads southbound through Saint Ives, AL., with a pair of SD70MAC's in charge.
Norfolk Southern Train 377 heads westbound through the Coosa Tunnel as a thick fog rushes out ahead of the train.