After a long and sleepless night, there isn't a much finer sight than a pair of standard cab SD70's with a long train of autoracks glinting out of the sunrise.

A nice BN executive MAC howls through Austell on the rear of a empty Scherer coal train, off to the coalfields for another load of black diamonds.

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)

Under skys as blue as the GMTX leader, the second section of NS train 153 rolls west towards Birmingham with a friendly wave from the conductor.

Quality in Motion Hi-Ballin down the Georgia sub. Thanks to Ant Davis for driving.

NS 153 with a great leader and consist rumbles west on the Alabama East end division. The 8306 just went into the paint shop leaving only two CR blue C40-8's on NS.

Train of the month? NS 153 heads west for Birmingham with a good looking CR C40-8 leading two NS SD60's and a UP SD9043MAC. As if this consist wasnt enough, the train picked up a string o... (more)

Blast from the past When new these EMD's could often be found lugging coal on class 1's around the country, nowdays they are mainly consigned to manifest on NS, on other roads not even that... (more)

NS 153 heads through the interlocking at Howell at a good clip with the engines pulling hard up the grade from Peachtree station.

CSX Q128 slams the NS Piedmont Divison diamond as it heads north with a sunburnt SD70MAC on the point. Something was seriously wrong with the batch of paint used to paint these, interesting how th... (more)

A nice lineup of power at Inman Yard, going oldest to newest from left to right. Closest to the camera is a one unit wonder autorack train led by NS SD40-2 3355, next up is NS 8332, another now bl... (more)

Who would have thought that we would be seeing trains led by solid leaser lashups meeting highhoods in 2010. Here P11 pulls south out of the yard past the P49 Chamblee Local at the south ... (more)

Classics under the lights In November 2009 all GE -7 series were purged from the CSX roster. I shot my last one leading a MOW train in early October 2009, right at the end of their careers.... (more)

NS 220 roars through the sag at downtown Douglasville with a nice looking belle SD70ACe leading a KCS SD70M and a NS C40-8.

What a way to kick off the month of September! A red and white former SOO line SD60 leads train 119 under the signal bridge at CP Well's at the north end of Atlanta South yard on the NS South dist... (more)