With the right information, a late lunch can yield an uncommon red HLCX leaser in a nice S-Curve just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.
A short autorack train departs Atlanta under the 4 track signal bridge at the south end of Inman Yard.
P76 returns to Doraville, GA passing empty coal train 734-29 & CSX Q61430 with petrochemicals from the gulf coast.
Calling signals as "Twenty Two Nacho", the 6666 leads a short intermodal into Atlanta.
Train 285, with intermodal & autoracks for Florida, passes 231 & G1A working in Whitaker Intermodal Terminal.
One of the last standard cab units produced leads a freight across the rarely photographed Pumpkinvine Creek Trestle.
UP's MoPac Heritage Unit is looking good leading an extra Atlanta-Jacksonville intermodal through downtown Atlanta. This is my first UP Heritage capture, Railroad: Union PacificLocomotive: EMD SD70ACeLocation: Atlanta, Georgia, USALocomotive #: UP 1982Train ID: NS I09-31Photo Date: July 30, 2012
With an uncommon blue painted SD60 in the lead, an empty ballast train rolls south of Atlanta for another load of granite.
A leaser and a high hood roll over the concrete arch bridge at Sweetwater Creek with a track gang bound for Emory Gap, TN.
A high hood rolls over freshly laid CWR, hauling a train removing the old rail, most likely for re-lay in another location.
A colorful but smoky consist mars the Atlanta Skyline.
3 different nose types and not a widecab in sight... transfer job P26 with high hoods and standard cabs passes a switcher while heading into Industry Yard.
With the Atlanta Skyline behind and MARTA on the left, Roadrailer heads down to the unloading terminal in East Point.
NS P76 enters Industry Yard while a MARTA light rail train slows for the East Point station stop.
A transfer between one of NS's many Atlanta yards passes through Oakland Junction
