After delivering one car to Mohawk Industries, the veteran crew of this EMD gets on their way to head back south.

Loaded with 49 cars of rock, this AC unit leads W061 pass the Wadley Railroad Depot (Built 1907). This shipment is bound for Hogansville, GA.

A northbound is around 10 miles out, while a rail train is working between Roanoke and Broughton. Moving South, W061 switches off the main into Roanoke's siding on a restricted signal. The engine... (more)

Loads of ballast have been occupying the siding here in Roanoke for weeks, and today finally power was brought in to take them to their destination. CSXT 415 is still wearing the original YN2 pa... (more)

Loads of ballast fill the 60 Herzog cars that are in transport behind a couple of CSX engines at the southend of Broughton. The siding here is used quite often by both south and north bound train... (more)

A conductor holds on to CSX locomotive #6460 as the engineer moves it from the siding to the main. After moving some cars around, this crew is finish for today and will tie this train down.

Ballast train W061 heads north on the old WofA between Notasulga and Loachapoka behind a pair of C30-7's: 7121/7016.

After getting a proceed signal at Tyner, CSX W061-21 continued south with a loaded ballast train heading to a job site to start dumping along the line.

CSX Q219 with UP power leading is about to blow by a loaded ballast train in the siding at Dunbridge on the Toledo Branch.

NB ballast train. Water is ponding in the flood plain after several inches of rain. The entire area will probably be under water within a week.

W061 knocking the signal down at the south end of Green Mountain as it rumbles toward Erwin.

After having been pulled up the hill by the U301, the ballast train is back on the move at Altapass with a pair of ex-Conrail GE Junk Boats for power.

GP38-2 2562 sits on the house track at Spruce Pine as northbound ballast train W061 blurs by on the mainline.