With a gravity dump and pressure differential covered hopper of ground calcium carbonate (marble) and a hopper of marble rock ahead of United Alloy Corporation airplane parts, a freshly painted Pa... (more)

CPKC isn't my favorite railroad right now... from a work perspective the "merger" has been anything but seamless for Sales & Marketing. But their Heritage & Military paint schemes are v... (more)

A Chicago-Waycross freight passes the Marietta Confederate Cemetery. Illinois became a state well before the Civil War and, a few miles to west on Kennesaw Mountain, there is a monument to the so... (more)

The first of two southbound Georgia Northeastern trains this day, a Universal Alloy Corporation special brings extruded aluminum airplane parts destined to the PNW for Boeing.

At or above max tonnage, GNRR Job 102 is down to walking speed up one of many steep grades. Not much has changed since the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad laid down rails with minimal enginee... (more)

The Chessie Heritage Motor leads a Rockmart grainer past Georgia Power's Plant Bowen. At one time, Bowen was the largest coal fired power plant in the US. According to a 2020 ranking, with closu... (more)

Normally returning from CSX early morning, G74 is very late and just shoving through the connection into CSX Howells Yard. The old Atlanta Stockyards are above the train, now call the "Goa... (more)

The Original Gangster Heritage curves into North Conley, where it'll take the siding for an empty coal.

Job 103 shoves up the Georgia Northeastern switch backs, after pulling to marble loads from Georgia Marble Company - Polycor Natural Stone plant east of Tate.

Faded Armour Yellow leads a Norfolk Southern intermodal.

Terain not unlike the Lehigh Valley, a Macon, GA to Elkhart, IN freight rolls through the Piedmont of North Georgia.

NS hasn't placed a priority on washing their power in the 2020s, so it's nice to see the relatively clean Wabash Heritage leading a train over Braswell Mountain.

For a short while, NS pulled SD70M-2s out of storage to help with a power shortage. With the aging EMD leader, the crew of A25 will probably have a sore rear end well ahead of any Valentines Day ... (more)

It wasn't known until after the fact, but this ended up being the last run of Jake M, who happened to be at the throttle with a matched set of Georgia Northeastern motors. New York area commuter ... (more)

80 loads of coal from Creech, KY roll past the mural of Marietta, in freshly rebuilt system hoppers.