Building America with the help of a Thoroughbred: An Atlanta to Charleston intermodal comes around the bend at Red Lane, with the bright string of international containers bound for the po... (more)

NS 408 load Coke train come barreling through Chicopee with a nice lashup.

Gainesville to Chamblee local P13 sits in front of the depot while a car on the ground inside the Cargill plant is inspected. The bolster pin in the center of the truck fell through, separating th... (more)

The Gainesville depot sits under fading summer storm light on a humid June evening. Built in 1910 along the Southern Railway Washington to Atlanta mainline, the station served trains such Crescent... (more)

Atlanta to Charleston, SC intermodal train 238 flies up the Greenville District toward Greer, SC and Spartanburg, SC, where it will switch and turn southeast to get its international containers an... (more)

Amtrak 19 starts away from its station stop at Gainesville at the beginning of a southern summer day. This general scene hasn't changed a lot since the Southern days, as the Crescent of that era r... (more)

Amtrak 19 makes its classic on-time arrival into Gainesville at sunrise. This general scene hasn't changed a lot since the Southern days, as the Crescent of that era ran on a similar schedule.

NS 213 flying through Midland Control Point in Gainesville, GA

Just after the nightly northbound Amtrak Crescent departed Gainesville 15 minutes off the card, Chamblee bound P13's pair of EMD motors idles in front of the century old station awaiting to go sou... (more)

A duo of veteran EMD locomotives begin to build their evening train bound for Chamblee while the light quickly begins to fade behind the increasing clouds.

Running two and a half hours late, Amtrak 19, the southbound Crescent, crosses over to track 2 at Red Lane for its station stop in Gainesville. With a Dash 8 second out and a rebuilt Viewliner din... (more)

NS P16 takes a clear signal indication at Red Lane and throttles up with 39 cars in tow for the Commerce Branch. Engineer Debbie is at the controls and is offering a few blasts on the P5 horn and ... (more)

After having 212 run around P90, P90 heads back North on Main#2 to switch at New Holland Yard.

In full warbonnet dress (minus the air conditioner), ex-ATSF 631 leads NS intermodal train 222 from Atlanta to Charlotte at 60 miles per hour. The train will be held up at Yonah to meet a 51Q outb... (more)

A late 237 flies through Red Lane on a beautiful late-spring day with two rare birds-KCS ACes-on the point. Although these units led 238 to Charleston on Wednesday, the counterpart provided much b... (more)