In a scene that looks more like Wisconsin branch line railroading, than in Georgia, an un-touched ''Zito Yellow'' GP9, works on a Hartwell Georgia Job out of Royston, as three bulkhead flats are s... (more)

Far from fighting grades of the Rocky Mountains, former Rio Grande GP30 3016 is preparing to shove a car three miles to an online transloading facility North of Athens, Georgia on Thursday April ... (more)

One of the many things I love about the Hartwell is that there are so many shots where there is no real evidence that it wasnt taken 20 years ago. Here a untouched CNW GP9 picks up a few hoppers t... (more)

This former Denver & Rio Grande Western GP35 has moved from the mountains of the Rockies to the hills of northeast Georgia but still does what was intended of her, that is to pull freight. This b... (more)

Just a classic southern shortline scene, a ribbon of rail and ballast trying to stand above the onslaught of the fields of Kudzu.

Ghosts and the soon to be departed.... The engines may wear paint schemes of fallen railroads, but thats not whats about to dissapear in this scene. The elevator once the main customer for the li... (more)

A southern whistle post, jointed rails, hill and dale trackage, and a mile of storage cars being lugged by a straining CNW GP9, whats not to love.

HRT 654 slumbers under a former unloading shed at Lavonia, GA. Photo taken with permission. Thanks to MSW, and JJ for some of the supplemental lighting.

An ex-EJ&E SD38 slumbers in a shed adjacent to the remains of a grainery. Photo taken with permission.

Hartwell GP30s and GP35 at Lavonia, GA // April 1995

Athens Line's power whiles away the night at the UGA heating plant on this chilly winter night. The coal delivered will be used to heat the UGA campus for the next few months before summer takes g... (more)

Hartwell's kitbashed RF&P unit rests at the old feedmill with former DRGW 3044. The unit was damaged in an accident a few years back and has the rear end of GNRR GP35 373, which itself was wrecked... (more)

What are the chances of seeing a consist like this in 2010! 5/7th's of the Hartwell Roster is seen here in Bowersville ready to lug a very heavy hopper to Lavonia. Really only the first tw... (more)

We are not in Iowa anymore.... But it sure looks like it! CNW 4556 drags a mile of storage cars through the fields in Bowersville, GA, making for a classic CNW scene

Former Conrail GP38 sits at the Hardcash Chip Mill in Dewy Rose as the crew makes switching moves to prepare to pull a couple sets of storage cars out from the south end of the line.