On the move through LaFayette Connection, empty coal hoopers head north behind some of CSX's GE power. This train would later take the siding at Standing Rock for a southbound loaded coal train.
Working as the rear-end distributed power unit, Seaboard System 1982 shoves on the hind-end of train I14009 shortly after daybreak, crossing West Point Lake on the Chattahoochee River near LaGrang... (more)
Moments before a crew was brought in, my Nikon camera captured an image of an SD40-2 an its rail train all set for duty. The crew will lay rail in Opelika, then head back to LaGrange.
A unit train of phosphate loads pass through the busy location of Lafayette Connection with 4 CSX locomotives for power. Two units are on the headend and two more are sandwiched midway between th... (more)