A bare-table train composed of 186 axles, rolls south at a point elevated higher than the road near it.
While CSX employees prepare to perform their duties, I183 gets a clear signal to head south through Standing Rock with a 330 axle train.
Traveling south and nearing Steel Fab industries, a fast baretable train (I183-03) ducked under a concrete bridge while leaving Roanoke with a Heritage 2 locomotive in lead.
After meeting a northbound at Broughton, BNSF quad 6 locomotive quickly picks up speed with a stacked train out of East Thomas Yard in Birmingham bound for Fairburn, GA.
Looking across a bridge that crosses the Tallapoosa River, I witness the lead engine of CSX train I183 blow through the crossing towards Wadley with 266 axles.
A couple of BNSF locomotives tow their bare-table train south through Roanoke, AL. The ID of this train on the BNSF Railroad is (Q-STOATG6), it originated in Stockton, CA.