Nashville, TN - Atlanta, GA manifest Q581 tackles the grade into Emerson

Southbound Q581 passes through Allatoona Pass behind a trio of C40-8W's

CSX train Q581 eases through Tilford Yard led by an ex DRGW SD45 one summer morning in 2014. This scene is now home to an Amazon distribution center and a massive parking lot.

Q581 begins the climb to Elizabeth as it heads to Atlanta. Thanks to the ever growing suburban scene in Atlanta, & in this case Western Cobb County, new houses & neighborhoods are popping up like ... (more)

It was the morning of Aug 14, 2020 around 5am or so the southbound massive CSX Q581-13 (Nashville,TN-Hamlet,NC) was making it's journey south on the Western & Atlantic til the train ran 35 cars ... (more)

It was the morning of Aug 14, 2020 around 5am or so the southbound massive CSX Q581-13 (Nashville,TN-Hamlet,NC) was making it's journey south on the Western & Atlantic til the train ran 35 cars in... (more)

CSX Q581-18 (Nashville,TN-Atlanta,GA) is now coasting down grade on the Wauhatchie Yard lead, as the inbound crew is almost completed it's day from running south out of Radnor Yard, but picking up... (more)

Stopping short of the Nicklesville Road crossing in Resaca, GA (MP WA-83.8 SE Resaca) is the massive 12,350 long manifest CSX Q581-11 (Nashville,TN-Atlanta,GA) which is on it's long trek to Tilfor... (more)

Tilford bound CSX Q581-24 (Nashville,TN-Atlanta,GA) pick up speed after passing the south-end of the holdout at Boyce on the Western & Atlantic Sub on this warm spring morning. A never will be rep... (more)

Work comes to a grinding halt of the Murfreesboro siding as the southbound CSX Q581-06 (Nashville,TN-Atlanta,GA) eases by at a restriction speed permitted by the Supervision over the tile replacem... (more)

Under threatening skies CSX Q581-01 (Nashville,TN-Atlanta,GA) is slowly making its way into the small northwest Georgia community of Graysville,GA (MP WA-121.4 NE Graysville) south on the CSX West... (more)

After get the signal to depart out of Wauhatchie Yard, CSX Q581-30 (Nashville,TN-Atlanta,GA) guide it's way through the switch from the yard lead on to the main, and from the single main and then ... (more)

With a veteran former L&N SD40-2 in charge, a short Q581 passes the 1929-built Seaboard Air Line bridge over Seigle Ave located in uptown Charlotte. Vintage SAL relics are few and far between in t... (more)

With a veteran former L&N SD40-2 in charge, a short Q581 passes the newly constructed Concrete Supply plant off of West Trade near uptown Charlotte. The train is getting ready to take a signal at ... (more)

After crossing over South Chickamauga Creek, CSX Q581-22 (Nashville,TN-Atlanta,GA) thunders around the curve in the driving rain about to knock down the Tyner signal (MP WA-129.0 Tyner Holdout) on... (more)