The sun miraculously comes out as NS train 201 accelerates west after meeting 740 at Wheeler.

An empty Scherer coal train crosses the Tennessee River; the tracks splitting off in the foreground serve riverside industries.

a ballast regulator and other pieces of MOW equipment occupy the house track at Gold Ridge as A41 passes

a quartet of leasers leads Q600 past the signal at milepost 101.3

a rare sight on the West Point Route as a single unit leads a baretable train of empty intermodal container cars

736's DPU is about to cross over the Tennessee River; on the other side of the river, you can see 736's head end to the right of the bridge and CSX T109 to the left, waiting for its turn over the ... (more)

sunlight breaks through the clouds just in time to illuminate the head end of T109 as it begins its assault on the grade to Holmes Gap

T109 rolls south across the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River

the spur heading off to the right serves a Louisiana Pacific lumber mill; also notice the wrecked tank car riding a flat two cars behind the motors

the engineer notches out and puts sand down to get Q688 up to track speed after encountering its first clear signal in many miles

a DPU pushes on a seemingly endless string of Powder River coal

ATN's Guntersville Turn, a train which works the northern part of the ATN between here and Gadsden

a rough-looking pair of former CN units work a grain elevator just off highway 431

with its typical large display of motive power (six units in this consist), 325 comes through the dip and past the signals at Brock