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The natural air conditioning is on full blast as NS 203 drifts through Gainesville on a muggy July afternoon. The 26 year old GE C40-8 was built for the Chicago & Northwestern before being sold to... (more)

One of the twelve ex-Conrail SD60s in active service and one of three in that series in Thoroughbred paint rests with an ex-Burlington Northern SD40-2 on track 1 in Gainesville. The large Pilgrim'... (more)

The Super Bowl Sunday edition of 211 rushes through Gainesville with a former Conrail (and later CSX) SD80MAC leading the way to Atlanta.

With golden sunlight shining down on a pair of former Norfolk and Western SD40-2s, NS P14 pulls a cut of Cargill hoppers down the Sinclair Track in Gainesville.

NS 45R assembles an outbound Cargill train in Gainesville with a fading former Southern Pacific AC44CW. The puddle of water was all that remained from the previous night's "snowstorm."

A golden locomotive flying past some goldenrod. The engineer was stroking it and we barely beat him.

Three standard cab EMDs and an SD60E shove NS 46R into the Cargill plant in Gainesville, GA, the "poultry capital of the world."

With four classic EMDs for power, NS 46R sits in front of the Gainesville depot with some of the town's several chicken plants looming overhead.

Con Agra's rebuilt EMD GP7 #101 shoves a cut of CSX grain hoppers into the mill.

A pair of ex Conrail SD60's blow past the Amtrak station at Gainesville,GA with intermodal train #221 for Atlanta on the Piedmont Division.

On a very warm November evening, a grain train sporting three CSX GE motors, pulls south out of Gainesville's massive Cargill mill with a cut of thirty-four hoppers which will soon be doubled, aft... (more)

Norfolk Southern 222 flies north from Atlanta to Charlotte at Red Lane, the north end of the double track through Gainesville, with two classic EMDs leading.

A fairly unusual sight in this area, a 4-axle EMD sits in the bright morning light near the Gainesville depot. The unique GP38-2 is leased to the Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line, a jointly owned Cl... (more)

A fresh SD70ACU and an ET44AC lead NS 221 through the industrial chicken plant-filled area of Gainesville on a hot Tuesday.