A rare intermodal train for this line rolls through the desolate countryside of Cusseta as it heads south. The trio of paint schemes at the front of train X115 provide a nice contrast to the gree... (more)

A pair of GE units in the ever dwindling YN2 paint scheme lead southbound intermodal train Q101 past the babbling brooks of Garden City. The crew of this 8400 foot long train is almost done with ... (more)

Sunday morning finds local NS train A15 working the Roberta yard just west of downtown Calera. This yard primarily sees covered hoppers and open hoppers that are needed to serve the two quarries o... (more)

Following the trend set forth by other Class I Railroads, CSX has also decided to create special paint schemes to be applied onto some of its locomotives. While NS initially came up with a paint ... (more)

It’s a gorgeous morning as the second section of 186 (M86) glides into Salem and past the unique antiques store next to the tracks with a pair of KCS locomotives. The caboose in the back is a form... (more)

It’s been a long night for this NS re-rail crew as they’ve had to move a loaded tank car and locomotive back onto the track after the two rolled a rail in downtown Opelika earlier in the day. A f... (more)

Originally built for the SAL and then rebuilt in 1970 for the Seaboard Coast Line as SCL 01095, this caboose would end up outside CSX’s Tilford yard as focal piece for a small park next to the for... (more)

In a Christmas card like scene, a pair of BNSF locomotives in DPU mode are almost done with their work of pushing this coal train up from the Mile High City of Denver to the 7,237 foot summit of P... (more)

A trio of BNSF locomotives pull today's Q610 manifest train into the super-elevated s-curves of Cusseta as they head north one morning. Seeing BNSF power on this portion of the former Western Rai... (more)

Newly cut in Safetran Vader hood signals stand tall at the now dispatcher control point of South End Opelika Siding while they display their most commonly seen signal indication here. That of cou... (more)

A fiery sky envelops most of the view in Opelika this afternoon as it silhouettes the newly installed PTC antenna and Safetran signals at the CSX-NS interlocking. Soon A746 will knock down this c... (more)

A tale of two cities
Settled in the 1830s, this small rural community is known by locals and smartphone maps as Gold Hill. This name was not chosen due to any of the shiny metal nearby... (more)

The timeless clickety-clack sound of steel wheel riding atop jointed rail fills the air as the West Tennessee Railroad’s Fulton Turn job heads south through Medina. The train is less than 20 miles... (more)

A nearly 20 year old Dash 9 leads today's Q186 into the CSX control point of Lafayette Connection which is where the A&WP/WofA Subdivision merges with the Lineville Subdivision for 2 miles into to... (more)

The DPU of loaded coal train N050 shoves hard on its 100 coal cars as the train passes underneath the new signal cantilever at the new South End Pyne control point. This former Southern Pacific A... (more)