Lots of people were out for a C40-8W leading... my Father wanted a shot at Tunnel Hill so I agreed to drive up for the afternoon.
An extra train of Mercedes-Benz vehicles heads to Brunswick, GA for export. It's one of the few trains that doesn't wye power until Atlanta... the Alabama Division crews at least to tolerate runn... (more)
I don't recall the first Warbonnet I saw, but I'll never get tired of them and will miss them once they're gone. Something that doesn't happen often anymore, a system grainer from Montpelier, IN ... (more)
Train 346 has averaged around 5mph since departing New Orleans' Oliver Yard on the 24th. But it made for a perfect morning run into Atlanta.
A trainload of brand new ribbon rail from Lima, OH/CFE heads south to Waycross, GA with a pair of once common SD40's.
A long Kansas City, MO-East Point, GA IM/rack train with a pair of DPU's in the middle crosses the Etowah River in Rome, GA.
After the second warmest February on record, Spring came early in Georgia with Bartlett Pear & Red Bud out in full force.
Blast from the past leading a quarter mile of Steel Dynamics Columbia City, IN ribbon rail.
Matched set of old timey -9's and descendents.
346 24 didn't have a great trip from New Orleans, but delays made for a perfect morning run into Atlanta.
Hot Tier 4 action on 90 cars of chicken chow.
Black diamonds used to be the majority of the tonnage on the W&A Subdivision, now it's the exception rather than the norm.
Running conventional with 143 cars of general freight, another CSX manifest navigates the piedmont of North Georgia, albeit relatively slowly, but safely.
A CSX train with manifest & empty autoracks crosses over the recently refurbished Etowah River Bridge.
The Creamsickle Heritage Unit brightens up the southern tip of the Appalachian Mountains.
