The daily local freight glides across the Etowah River headed back to the yard in Cartersville.

SD40-2 8008 & SD40-3 4068 lead a monster Q241 (9600ft of loaded autoracks) south past Wyvern yard, & thanks to a bad EOT, were limited to 30mph as they approached the beginning of the long uphill ... (more)

K422, a NB Tampa, FL to Chicago, IL empty ethanol train, crosses over the Etowah river with two Canadian Pacific AC4400CW's leading. Upon their arrival in Chicago, the Beavers will return to home ... (more)

C710 heads north through Cartersville with SD40-2 8048 leading the way. And no, that guy in the middle of the street is not sitting, he's riding a mini motorbike.

Q580, a Greenwood, SC to Nashville, TN manifest, heads north through Cartersville with CN SD70M-2 8952 leading. This was the first of 5 northbound trains over a 2 hour span, with 4 of them, includ... (more)

While chasing A700 near Rockmart, I received word that L210, an-as needed Atlanta, GA to Smyrna, TN automotive train, had CSX 8526, an ever-increasingly rare SD50, leading the way & that they had ... (more)

A760, the Howell Yard (Atlanta) to North Yard (Cartersville) turn that replaced A703 only a few weeks earlier, arrives at North Yard to drop off its cars & then pick up a cut of cars that will hea... (more)

M982, a recrewed M782 due to the original crew "lawing out," heads north for Nashville at North Junta with Canadian National SD70M-2's 8813 & 8836 leading the way.

M982, a recrewed M782 due to the original crew "lawing out," brings the cut of cars destined for North Yard before running around & bringing the rest of their train to Nashville. The pow... (more)

One of CSX's rebuilt SD40E-3's leads the Atlanta to Cartersville turn at River Holdout on a hot 90 degree afternoon. Summer is here...

A pair of matching northern visitors lead M782 north, over the Etowah River.

After waiting nearly 90 minutes for M.O.W. and inspectors to clear the track, the empty grainer finally motors Northbound over the Etowah River, with a nice Union Pacific ACE unit leading the run.

CSX empty autorack train Q210 rolls above a sea of kudzu behind a trio of EMD's.

A pair of Canadian Pacific GE's bring the empty ethanol train over the swollen Etowah River on a cool pollen filled day in North Georgia.

After working Chemical Products Corporation, a yard job (probably Y220) rolls through Cartersville with GP38-2 2567 & SD40-3 4078 providing 2500 horsepower per tank car as they head back north to ... (more)