The CSX railgrinder sits parked in the siding at Notasulga after a day working in the Opelika Block.

With "maintenance in the way," as the dispatcher put it, out of the way, Q617 proceeds south from Opelika into the Opelika, Notasulga, and Chehaw blocks south.

SOO 4511 pulls forward past the MoW equipment before backing to the rest of the train. According to the engineer, the unit was built in 1974.

The A41 crew guides their northern visitor past the East Alabama Paving aggregate piles at the P-318.

Rolling over a former Central of Georgia bridge, NS 137 aims for North Auburn, long hood forward.

Handbrake backlit, SOU caboose X427 sits rusting in the storage track at Opelika, waiting for local funds to be restored.

NS 335 gets underway with a fresh track warrant at Jackson's Gap. Note the concrete pads in the foreground. They once held a Central of Georgia water tower.

After meeting Q618, Q145, with Tropicana boxcars in tow, gets underway, passing by the industrial backdrop provided by the WestPoint Stevens Opelika Mill.

NS 335 with one of the original NS GEVOs rolls into the curve just before the P-305 on the ex-Central of Georgia. Note the thoroughbred's "equipment".

With two ex-Conrails, an extremely short 137 slowly makes its way across the fill just before reaching the east end of Gold Ridge.

NS 137 rolls over the ex-Central of Georgia bridge at Waverly Pkwy. The old CofG name stencils can still be seen close up.

Q619 scoots through Auburn, just blocks from Auburn University, the alma-mater of one of the south's most accomplished railfans, J. Parker Lamb.

An GMR GP30M (ex-C&O) spends it's Saturday alone in the Ft. Valley yard.

Framed up by the ubiquitous pine trees of south Georgia, the CSX local returns to its shortened train after dropping off a cut of cars to the CIRR at Saffold, GA.

The Bay Line local rumbles north with a cut of tank cars to be dropped off just up the line, then the train will head to the chip mill in Abbeville.