The Jasper Local has just left Carbon Hill headed back east towards Jasper, Al

With BNSF's takeover of the Montana Rail Link at the beginning of 2024, the MRL SD70ACe's can now be seen roaming all over the BNSF system, either in trail position or serving as a DPU. In this ca... (more)

MRL brings up the rear of BNSF C-WTMPAM heading to JH Miller steam plant.

BNSF GE's hustle a stack train west through the small town of Carbon Hill on the ex Frisco Memphis - Birmingham main line.

BNSF Auto Train V-BIRWEL1 heads north as they pass through Carbon Hill, AL.

Q-ATGLAC highballs through Carbon Hill, Al.

The silence of a Sunday afternoon is shattered as an empty Palos coal train blasts through downtown Carbon Hill, along the former Frisco in west Alabama. The parked covered hoppers at right appear... (more)

northbound unit grain train

An empty Palos coal train accelerates through Carbon Hill.

A northbound empty Palos coal train (most likely E-PAMNAM) is into the first miles of its journey back towards the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.

An empty iron ore train climbs through Carbon Hill. The weed-covered tracks in the foreground indicate that Carbon Hill was probably a much busier place in the past.

A southbound intermodal train travels through a pastoral scene as it heads for Birmingham. This line was once a part of the Frisco and today represents the easternmost extent of the BNSF system.

local on the BNSF Birmingham Sub prepares to switch at Carbon Hill; notice the wheelbarrow up front