With the Southern GEVO shoving its fancy hood ornament upgrade at Durmid, the Spencer-Lynchburg round-trip Virginian gets out of town following a very late departure. The Southern signals s... (more)

The southbound Virginian flies by the cemetery in Gretna, VA. Fittingly, a headstone from the Power family stands in the foreground, as the remarkably powerful J-Class 611 gallops upgrade o... (more)

Before starting her 9-hour day running public trips around "The Rock", Stone Mountain FP7 6143, formerly New Georgia Railroad 3498 and Southern Railway 6143, idles away in "Pebble R... (more)

With the Conrail heritage engine leading under deep blue skies, NS 174 rolls by South Yard at Henderson on the way to its swap out at Jefferson Street in Atlanta, where a North End crew will take ... (more)

With one of the remaining twelve NS SD60s [not of Conrail heritage] leading the way down the former Central of Georgia mainline, NS 139 passes a Southern Railway fixed approach signal and trundles... (more)

In a scene looking much more like the mountains of British Columbia and far less like northeast Georgia with the fog and light rain, a Canadian National locomotive leads NS 222 from Atlanta, GA to... (more)

Despite its poor physical state, Savannah & Atlanta Pacific 750 looks wonderful in the main exhibit hall at the Southeastern Railway Museum. Originally built for the Florida East Coast and used on... (more)

On a gorgeous St. Patrick's Day, NS 9-1-1, the "Honoring First Responders" unit that completely resembles a huge fire truck, leads NS 153 by the blooming Bradford Pears and Apple Trees o... (more)

Georgia Division local G88 heads south onto former Central of Georgia trackage at CP Spring, which still has its [defunct] interlocking tower from the days when Atlanta Terminal Station still stoo... (more)

The Piedmont Division's weekday turn between Chamblee and East Point enters ex-Central of Georgia trackage at CP Spring. With two former Southern SD40-2s trailing, it's appropriate to note that th... (more)

After leaving CSX rails and entering the former Central of Georgia mainline at CP Spring, CSX Q235 rolls southward toward East Point, where it will join the A&WP, then to Union City where it will ... (more)

CN autorack/autoparts train M371 passes the 1918 Illinois Central station at Mattoon, Illinois with an IC SD70 doing the honors on its home rails.

The last thing I expected to see on my drive to Ohio for my summer job was a true Illinois Central train on its namesake mainline. Somehow though, it happened, and I took advantage of it by chasin... (more)

With thin, whispy clouds painted onto a deep blue sky, Canadian National auto train M371 flies down the Illinois Central with an appropriate engine doing the honors. Mix all of this with the mural... (more)

Manifest freight M342 knocks down the LED signals at North Tuscola on Canadian National's Champaign Subdivision. With two ES44ACs on the front, this train won't struggle on its southbound trip thr... (more)