A fairly early CSX scheme adorns 8048 as it stops at Hamlet to take on a new crew before continuing to Monroe.

Not all of L&N's coal is on the east end. These empties are just north of the Tennessee line as they head back to the mines in west Kentucky for reloading.

Slow orders on account of major signal work allows me to get a broadside shot of 8989. Maybe it's all that hood extending beyond the radiators, but the latest SD70s look a mile long to me.

UP doesn't seem to run much new power over the Van Buren sub between Little Rock and Van Buren, but we got to see a nice new 'heavy' this week.

Typical late-1980s power on CSX - a mix of SD40-2s and C30-7s in FL and SBD paint - pulls a northbound train past the AME Zion Church on Auburn's west side.

On a hazy, humid summer afternoon, a phosphate train led by a pair of U36B/slug sets is westbound on the ex-SAL Bartow-Tampa line, and is about to cross the ex-ACL Ft Meade-Winston line.

Chessie first GP15T - assisted by sister 1505 - heads west with the Henry turn. They'll interchange with Iowa Railroad at Bureau, and work the industrial park at Henry.

After leaving the Charlotte/Winston-Salem main at Mooresville, train 167 has reached Statesville and is about to enter the Salisbury-Asheville main. It may not look like it, but that track just i... (more)

A threesome of GP50s curves behind Macon's Terminal Station on its way to Brosnan Yard with a freight from Atlanta. At the time of the photo, the track beyond 7034 hosted Augusta and Savannah tra... (more)

A U23B leads a trio of SDs out of Macon and toward Atlanta.

Two GP38-2s and a B23-7 lead the Columbus-bound return leg of the weekday turn on the old Central of Georgia. Not long after leaving the town of Pine Mountain, the crew will have their three dies... (more)

It's after dusk as two Southern SD35s roll an eastbound around the big curve at Opelika just before crossing the Western Railway of Alabama mainline.

Long-hood forward, with extra flags flying, 3129 leads two more SDs and a Louisville-bound freight across the L&N at Princeton, IN.

One of the rarer models - on Southern or any railroad - was the GP49 (or GP39X, if you prefer). Here, one of Southern's half-dozen leads a pair of GP50s and an eastbound train across the CSX at O... (more)

Cherryvale is the operational hub of the South Kansas and Oklahoma. This ex-CN unit is about to lead a train to Tulsa, as a set of ex-Apalachian & Ohio SD50s waits to head west to Winfield. Ther... (more)