She may be jaded and faded, but it's likely the last Warbonnet SD75I I'll ever shoot. I'm glad I drug the kids out for this one.
Manifest 361-06 meets empty grainer 41G-04 at the north end of the double track over Braswell Mtn. The rebuilt AC44C6Ms are DPU equipped and have been leading many of the new DPUed general freigh... (more)
One of a small group of units to get white on black numberboard in the mid-2010s, this GEVO has 87 loads of Archer-Daniels-Midland grain well under control coming off the tail end of the Appalachi... (more)
Heavy dynamic braking in the crisp morning air. Unfortunately, it got too hot way too fast.
As part of Precision Scheduled Railroading, 27A is now handling intermodal to McCalla Intermodal Terminal, which connects at Inman Yard in Atlanta.
Gradients of green cause my gaw to gurgitate... no guff.
I like my women and railroad grades curvy with lots of action.
Steamship boxes add some color to the green hues of spring.
An extra Atlanta-Memphis intermodal is the last train of the day. No drones here, I get my elevation the old fashioned way.
With only 50 inbound cars for Chattanooga, the northbound NS 348 (Macon,GA-Chattanooga,TN) glides into the curve on the main 1 track just north of the Control-Point Jersey signal (MP 235.0A) on th... (more)
It's no Crawford Hill, but still...
With 150 wells of intermodal including a former XPO (Pacer Stacktrain) container, 282 still made good time up the grade.
A Chattanooga to Macon freight snakes through the recently exposed S-Curve just east of Dallas.
Looking like an early 2000's BNSF/JB Hunt promotional photo, this late Los Angeles/BNSF to Atlanta/NS run-through was a nice catch.
On a day full of slow orders due to heavy flooding, NS 55E is coming over the hill on the starting point of the long double track main in the rural community of Waring on the NS Atlanta North-End.... (more)