The Logan Local returning to Logan, MT with a pair of GP35's.
Not the DeQueen & Eastern, but it's still cool that Patriot Rail is keeping some traditions, even if the unit ended up being assigned to the Georgia Northeastern.
A run-through to CPKC takes the siding at York to meet Amtrak, with the leader painted to Honor Canadian & US Navies.
A local from Finley Yard heads down the passenger main to work CMC Steel, passing the stacks & old Baldwin switcher at Sloss Furnace.
The NS 3B district has a lot of pulp & paper traffic, as evidenced by the long string of high cube 60' boxcars on this Selma-Birmingham manifest.
Bound for Calvert, AL, train 183 24 passes 312 24 on the busy north end of the AGS South District.
Local job 121 hauls 66 general freight through the small section of street-running. Alabama Southern has a huge amount of local business in Tuscaloosa.
Mine run R618 drags train C23721, with 100 loads of coking coal, towards Alice Yard. The availability of high quality metallurgical coal is one reason steel mills like Sloss Furnace, in the backg... (more)
An extra manifest, running as a unit train with 264 containers of New York City trash, passes under an abandoned ACL bridge on it's way to the landfill in Uniontown, AL.
Birmingham-Mobile #385 gets moving after meeting a northbound coming off the 3B District, passing the relatively large two story Alabama Great Southern RR Station.
The CSX transfer may have standard diesels, but at least the right of way is eco-friendly.
Not the local train power I'd hoped for, but a train is a train and the Chattanooga-Harriman turn counts even with unremarkable diesels.
I photographed quite a few widecab GP40's growing up along the Grand Trunk Western in Michigan, so it was cool to catch a pair living out their retirement on the ATN.
126 empty mill gons head north for another load of steel ingots in the foothills of the Appalachians.
The double heritage was a nice surprise, after Industry Yard moved the Wabash from DPU to one of the lead motors.
