A huge piece of machinery that's hard to miss, this shoulder ballast cleaner of the NS is seen on the mainline in Memphis at South Willett Street.

CSX Q533 is southbound on LA Main 1 of the CN Fulton SUb enrote to CN's Johnston Yard as it approaches the Southern Avenue Overpass.

UP 9279, in bad need of a paint job, leads the Q530 train into the junction at Aulon with this transfer from the UP.

A newly painted IC 6122 along with DWP 5911 head south on LA Main 1 with the A43271 train as it approaches Garden Lane near Midtown Memphis.

CN's RJY30 approaches Rayner Street on the NS Memphis District with this transfer train headed for Forrest Yard.

The M62 train waits on the main line in Forrest Yard for a crew to take it east.

Now this is a truck to take on the rails! CSX has been replacing the rails from Aulon Junction to Cox Street. This Peterbilt truck is picking up the scrap metal along the ROW.

The UP has brought MNLNV 24 to the CSX at Cox Street where it waits for a CSX crew to continue it's journey.

IC 6115 bangs across the former NC&StL tracks at Aulon Junction as the engineer gives a wave. The jointed rails of the former CSX Cordova Branch have been quiet for some time now. The rails are da... (more)

A BNSF grain train comes off the CN at Kansas Ave. in Memphis, TN.

BNSF to CN transfer freight with an ex-BN unit and two ex-ATSF units.

An EB mixed freight with a FURX SD40-2, a CN SD75I, and a CSX C40-8 at Kentucky Street in Memphis, TN.

Despite the fact that I was on public property and this train was sitting on UP tracks, a CSX MOW employee gave me a bit of a hard time for taking this picture. Sign of the times, I guess. This ... (more)

CSP 143, a SW1000, sits in the dark on the east spur in NS's Forrest Yard. Camas Prairie was bought by the Watco Companies in 2004 and renamed The Great Northwest Railroad.

A night shot in NS Forrest Yard as 226 waits for a crew to head east from the Long John track. The blur going into the yard is the 225 train.