NS 3373 leads a local freight towards Irondale with a former Conrail SD40-2 leading.
Ghosts in the wasteland. In the midst of the industrial at the site of Tennessee Coal & Iron's Ensley steel mill, a pair of locomotives lie rusting in the same place as where the last engi... (more)
One of the rarer of Birmingham Southern's industrial critters. This unit still bears the paint scheme of former sister Tri-Star road Elgin Joliet & Eastern. Was a stroke of luck that this rare bea... (more)
Ghetto Streetrunning.....in both senses of the word. BNSF transfer YBIR-04 splits down a pair of gravel roads between 25th and 26th St in a very rough part of Birmingham. Note the plane taking off... (more)
NS MOW train 938 rolls through Rockmart with a nice SD45 carbody on the point. The combination of the flares and the red nose stripes make for one of the nicer looking leasers out there.
HLCX 5992 and two NS units whip a empty Herzog ballast train through the S-curves at Jackson.
With its train strung out along the dip, NS 923 powers through the south end of Jenkinsburg siding with a rare HLCX blue SD60 leading.
Winning combo at the dome NS 732 with a nice pair of executives roars out of the gulch fresh from a crew change at Jones Avenue with another load of Powder River black diamonds for Plant S... (more)
Second MOW train with lease power of the day, and another rare one at that! After waiting for a logjam of traffic to clear, the train eases across the old concrete arch up to signals where it will... (more)
At last, the quest for a blue SD60 is over! After getting screwed on getting this unit, one of the few SD60's in HLCX dark blue, I finally got the unit on the point in good light. Here the empty H... (more)
EJE 671 shoves a cut of autoracks back into Markham Yard.
A rare former BN TEBC6 rests at East Thomas Yard. These sets have been a fixture at East Thomas for a long time.
This bridge will eat your bike! A battered and worn GP40-2 leads Y111 over the Cleveland Ave trestle which displays an interesting clearance sign...
NS A55 rumbles through Birminghams railroad gulch as it heads west for Meridian with a odd set of older power in the lead.
NS 2550 ducks under the cantilever at 32nd St with a eastbound grain train. The preserved Frisco steamer at Sloss Furnace can be seen peeking out behind the fence.
