A short Labor Day 215 is having an easy time climbing out of the Cumberland River. The Rathole was surprisingly busy, making for a productive drive home from holiday in Michigan.

With 173 cars, including 35 loaded ADM grain towards the rear, I was surprised to see this Conway, PA-Chattanooga, TN freight running conventional.

"Hues of blue" The N&W Heritage and Sonic Bonnet chug along Chickamauga Creek, closing in on a crew change at Chattanooga.

Buffalo to Birmingham freight 179 is definitely of PSR design, with lot of stops en-route for block swapping. 179-05 worked Bellevue, OH; Middletown, OH; Georgetown, KY; Somerset, KY & Chattanoog... (more)

CN's Wetmore-Munising turn prepares to run around their train, after switching the Neenah Paper Mill in the background. At the end of a circuitous, cobbled together LS&I/DSS&A route with few othe... (more)

Had some luck with the sun in between lake effect clouds.

Harkening back to my youth, Chicago-Baltimore intermodal 24M is all pigs & single stacks due to height restrictions in the East.

Per NSDash9.com, the leader is the first of 100 AC44C6M rebuilds from GE Ft Worth, TX... but except for the fresh paint, it might as well still be #9108. Atlanta-Croxton train 212 has already gra... (more)

Snaking through the S-Curve at Heflin with 148 wells of intermodal, most of which originated on KCSM in Mexico.

Dragging out of the siding with an ailing CIT leaser trailing, an IC&E Kansas City, MO-St Paul, MN freight continues north to the Twin Cities.

"Last Stand of the GP38's" The first Iowa Interstate ES44AC's had already arrived on property when my Dad & I caught train RINSU running into Chicago over the jointed rail of CSX's New ... (more)

Whole lotta leaser 40's on a Norfolk Southern empty grainer. On the cusp of the Great Recession, NS still had a good bit of supplemental motive power.

Train NASA12 hauls a total of 12 rocket booster segments to Jay Jay for interchange to the NASA railroad. There are ten smaller boosters for the NASA Artemis project, while the 2 larger reefer bo... (more)

With a trio of SD40s and a CAGY GP15-1 in tow, A56 returns to Tuscaloosa after swapping traffic at Norris Yard.

One of the last Georgia Northeastern grainers returns corn empties south to the CSX interchange at Elizabeth. Pilgrim's Pride is constructing a new unit train capable mill in Ranger, GA; replacin... (more)