An ex Southern Pacific SD40R leads CSX ballast train W067 south on its way to Tyrone,GA.

Easing its way down the CSX main track just after crossing over the CSX controlled diamond at Middle Dalton M.P. WA-99.0, CSX S581-28 (Nashville, TN-Atlanta, GA) has the clear all the way to the S... (more)

A huge manifest bound for Macon from Chattanooga slowly rolls through Dalton with a trio of NS locomotives in command.

A couple of ACe's lead loaded Plant Scherer-bound coal train #738 south through the NS/CSX interlocking in Dalton, GA.

"Dragging along!" As the afternoon progress we get a glimpse of loaded coal bucket NS 600 (CN) Illinois-Wansley,GA)as it snakes its way into town preparing to knock down the Hair signals... (more)

Loaded PRB coal train #734 growls south through Dalton as a summer storm rages only a couple miles away.

B36-7 #3816 leads fellow B36-7 #3815 and GP50 #7060 southbound at Dalton. Serving as mid-train power are B36-7s 3817, 3818, and 3819 (six 4 axle, high adhesion units, including 5 of the 6 B36-7s o... (more)

Norfolk Southern Freight Train 125 makes their way Southbound as they roar through Dalton, GA. With Canadian Pacific SD9043MAC 9143 leading the way. for now this is my favorite catch of 2014

In what has to be one of if not the best consists of the year, one of only three remaining Canadian Pacific SD90/43mac's #9142 leads train 125 south through Dalton, Ga.

Norfolk Southern manifest #125 (Knoxville,TN - Macon,GA) sports a lashup worth driving far for with a rare CP SD9043MAC leading a BNSF Gevo and Ferromex ACe.

Southern Pacific AC44CW #187 leads CSX train Q582-15 (Atlanta,GA - Nashville,TN).

I never thought I would be shooting a pure Southern Pacific locomotive on a road train in 2014 but here it is. By the grace of the train Gods, one of five(?) unpatched SP AC44CW's wound up leading... (more)

Downtown sound was getting claim and quite as the Saturday evening hours progress, til NS 288 (Atlanta, GA-Detroit, MI) high tail north bound under the Hair signal with a pair of fairly new BNSF E... (more)

Well even new and up to date motors can break down. CSX 3120 and CSX 285 both sit at the Middle Dalton holdout waiting for CSX X785-07 to arrive and pick them up. Apparently the both unit was havi... (more)

In the mist of the heavy evening traffic from both CSX and NS through the Dalton thoroughfare, CSX Q675-09 (Hamlet,NC- Nashville,TN) slowly works its way north after receiving an approach signal t... (more)