My personal favorite unit on the NS roster, 3170, sits at Gainesville, GA on a restful night in early March.

A detailed view of the cab of NS/SOU 3170 reveals the features of the cab and an up-close look at the tuxedo colors.

On a mildly cool night in Gainesville, GA, NS/SOU 3170 rests at the depot awaiting future assignment to local service. There's nothing quite like seeing tuxedo highhoods out on the main in 2016!

Unassigned motive power sits at the depot in Gainesville, Ga awaiting assignments. In the mix is this ratty looking Union Pacific GE.

A Gainesville Midland heritage unit? Hard to believe CSX would dig down that far into the predecessor bag. I'd say it has more to do with employee pride. There was a GM 10 decal on the other side ... (more)

Running nearly five hours late, the southbound Crescent, AMTK 19, pulls out of Gainesville, Ga in white-out fog conditions with the phase 1 heritage unit leading.

Running 40 minutes behind schedule, the southbound Amtrak Crescent bursts through the shadows as it winds through the s-curve at Red Lane. The Phase 1 painted P42, which debuted five years ... (more)

Restored Southern Railway SD40 No. 3170 holds a cut of hoppers in front of the Gainesville depot while exhaust from the feed mill fades into the night sky. While the 3170 is one of the older units... (more)

On a beautiful, unseasonably warm evening, Southern SD40 3170 basks in the sunshine just before sunset. Though this isn't its first trip to Gainesville, it's still so cool to see this original SOU... (more)

A CSX AC4400CW in YN2 paint has some downtime at the very small Gainesville yard one cloudy morning. The GM usually sees bigger six-axle locomotives, which is quite a sight to see maneuvering the ... (more)

CSX CW44AH 456 idles the weekend away on the Gainesville Midland in good-looking YN2 paint.

Con-Agra GP7 101 (ex-Meridian & Bigbee) rests with three grain trucks at one of the numerous chicken feed mills in Gainesville, GA, the "Poultry Capital of the World."

NS 221 rumbles past the Gainesville depot and a misplaced CSX C40-8 gathered among the usual slew of Thoroughbred SD40-2s.

On a cloudless, spring-like January day, hotshot intermodal 203 diverges to track two at Red Lane, the north end of the double track through Gainesville. Local train P16, which has just finished a... (more)

CSX's 27th EPA Tier 4-compliant GEVO, classified by the company as an ET44AH, sits unassigned in the three-track "yard" on CSX's Gainesville Midland Subdivision in the line's namesake to... (more)