The westbound Lake City West turn crosses the Suwannee River as it heads towards Lee, where it will interchange with the Tallahassee East turn and return to Lake City. Ellaville was once a thrivin... (more)
GoogleMaps shows it as Train Track Beach, the sand mixed with ballast. A 44 car freight trundles along the Escambia River en route to interchange with CSX.
Train TA-EAST arrives home after interchanging with the LC-WEST at Chipley. I was glad the clouds cooperated for my last photo of the day and didn't mind driving home through multiple torrential ... (more)
With a pair of freshly painted former FEC SD70M-2s, pulling three dead-in-tow RJ Corman SD40-2s, the TA-EAST passes an outdated sign welcoming Amtrak to Tallahassee Union Station. A $3.5MM projec... (more)
It was a long day, literally & figuratively... but I was blessed with killer photos of a matched trio of SD40s in the 'flag' paint scheme, seen passing some former L&N or Seaboard System signal re... (more)
One of those days everything went according to operational plan. A clean meet & swap in Lee has LC-West going back to Lake City "on time". And with spring time still catching up with t... (more)
It's into the last hour of daylight when LC-West drags itself into town from Sanderson. They should have already swapped with TA-East at this hour and been making the final sprint back into town ... (more)
Last shot of the trip. The crew of TA-East is counting down the miles to Tallahassee as they blast by Drifton siding. This spot on the map was once the connection with the Atlantic Coast Line Pe... (more)
Nearing the end of our journey, we find TA-East splitting the intermediate signals railroad north of the Greenville siding. The old ex-Seaboard Air Line signals between Tallahassee and Baldwin ar... (more)