SCL train #333, the Frisco connection run-thru from East Thomas Yard in Birmingham, is departing Manchester Yard after changing its Lineville Subdivision crew for a Fitzgerald Subdivision crew
An empty Herzog ballast train is about to leave the Manchester sub and tie down in the Manchester yard as it awaits the next load of aggregate rock.
A ballast train soaks up the last light of the day while a long train waits to go north on the Lineville Subdivision.
A six engine consist, including an MP15DC, follows on the heals of N172 after waiting for two south-bounds on an extremely busy day in Manchester.
With Q684 in the foreground, Q549 slowly rounds the curve into Manchester Yard and will drop off cars for an afternoon A720.
The Manchester Yard switcher rests while Q142 passes the yard office in the background and S684, with distracting open door, is preparing to leave.
CSX 7883 passing the signals at Manchester, Ga on its way from Birmingham, Al to Waycross.
Giving the railfans at the platform something to look at on a quiet Sat. afternoon.
--an old workhorse in Manchester