Venus and Mars shine in the overhead sky as a former CNW GP9 sits with Ex Conrail and St. Lawrence & Atlantic units on the Hartwell Railroad in Bowersville, Georgia.

Our planetary neibor Venus shines brightly overhead as a sky dotted in accompanying stars drifts over north Georgia while a silent night is had on the Hartwell Railroad. The Chicago Northwestern G... (more)

The crew of the Hartwell Railroad is coupling a cut of cars on the mainline while another cut of cars is waiting to enter Rose Acres Feed Mill with HRT's former Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway eng... (more)

The crew of the Hartwell Railroad is shoving a cut of cars back into Rose Acres Feed Mill with their former Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway engine in charge. Shortly before this, the mainline tra... (more)

Former EJ&E SD38 654 couples a cut of storage cars off the old HRT line to Hartwell to clear the line for a rare run out to Hartwell which would to my misfortune happen the following morning.

Thunderous skies brew behind the Rose Acre Feed Mill in Bowersville, GA as Hartwell Railroad's 654, a former EJ&E SD38, rides the lead into the mill to grab some hoppers to be taken North on an ou... (more)

Hartwell Railroad's Bowersville local pulls into Bowersville with former EJ&E SD38 654 leading two hoppers bound for the Rose Acre Feed Mill, which stands behind the camera in this view.

For my 75th photo on RP.net, Hartwell RR SD38 #654 idles in downtown Bowersville, GA.

Some of the Hartwell RR's mix bag of power idles in downtown Bowersville, GA.

HRT 4556, a former CNW GP9, sits in Bowersville, Ga on a quiet, peaceful night.

Former "J Ball" SD38 ,HRT 654, idles away at the Rose Acre Feed Mill in Bowersville, Ga. It's odd to see this northern veteran so far south.

After running a train from Toccoa to Bowersville, the power runs up the west end of the wye in Bowersville. This was a perfect opportunity to shoot the former St. Lawrence & Atlantic GP40-2, HRT 3... (more)

An old crossing sign stands below a million stars and the Milky Way's galactic bands in Bowersville, Ga on a cool, comfortable night for shooting. The Milky Way can be seen to the right of the cro... (more)

Doesn't look too bad to have been taken with a broken lens...

My personal favorite locomotive on the roster, HRT 4556, rests beneath hundreds of stars at the Rose Acre Feed Mill (behind me) in Bowersville, Georgia. This was my first time using flashes, and I... (more)