Although it looks like it might have come out of the GE plant in Erie last week, this AC4400 was actually built in May of 1997 for the UP. The fresh coat of armour yellow and Harbormist gray stan... (more)

Intermodal trains like Q184 are still on the move this day as the expansion project at CSX’s Fairburn Intermodal Terminal is nearly complete. The 8 loading/unloading tracks on the east side of the... (more)

The Nashville bound mixed freight of Q514 glides through the Main Street Connection control point as it transitions off the Lineville and on the A&WP/WofA Subdivision in LaGrange. The new pieces ... (more)

With the Christmas holiday behind us, A746 is back at it this morning as it prepares to depart Opelika heading north after dropping off interchange cars with NS. To the right, my beautiful girlfr... (more)

The Waycross bound mixed freight train of Q515 has finally entered onto a long section of tangent track after having maneuvered through 3 curves on the west side of town. The train consisting of ... (more)

BNSF and CSX painted GEVO units pull an 8100 foot long Q513 past a new cantilever signal bridge that will become the South End Pyne control point later on that month. This new south end will leng... (more)

It’s a bright and sunny October morning as Q572 negotiates the super elevated s-curves just north of Cusseta with a Union Pacific paint... (more)

Fireworks begin to fill the night sky this July 4th as one of the larger pieces of equipment at the Pueblo Railway Museum, the Baldwin Locomotive Works built 4-8-4 steam locomotive Santa Fe 2912, ... (more)

It’s nearly Christmas time and the city of Opelika has just finished decorating their public tree as the southbound Q220 comes into town with over 9300 feet of train. Perhaps one of the new Kia m... (more)

Lite power in the form of Union Pacific units, with a very weather beaten one up front, head sound after dropping off their train of empty auto racks at the Kia plant in West Point.

The entirety of NS 137 is back on the move again after a brief stop at the Opelika interlocking to allow a 12K ton CSX Q606 to get through first. Having cleared the more)

Spirit of America
One a summer night in 2016 the solo unit of CSXT 7812 pulls a 100 car empty hopper train through the stillness of Cusseta. While the outside of this unit looks like ... (more)

A new satellite dish and the new Safetran signal with its heads positioned into their correct orientation, covered with bags, spell out that the end is near for this US&S color light that protects... (more)

It’s a bit frigid this morning as the remains of an overnight snowfall still cling to the ground around A746 who sits snugly tied down in the Notasulga storage track.

Having picked up their locomotives at the seldom used wood yard track just south of here, the lite power of W062 is now heading timetable north to retrieve their rock train at the three mile away ... (more)