(photo by Josh Trower)
Amtrak train 19, the Crescent, negotiates the complicated track layout at Howell Junction in Atlanta. Normally, the Crescent isn’t here, but due to track maintenance work towards the south on this day, it is terminating in Atlanta. The train has dropped its passengers off at Atlanta Peachtree Station and is using the trackage at Howell to turn around and head back towards Peachtree Station so the train is positioned for a northbound departure at night to New York as train 20. Normally the train runs New York to New Orleans. The three tracks on the left are Norfolk Southern (ex-Southern Railway), the two on the right are CSX (ex-Western & Atlantic Railroad) and lead north across the ex-Southern to Kennesaw and beyond.
(Photo by Josh Trower)
A CSX “Heritage Unit” honoring the railroads past heads south through Kennesaw on May 2, 2026. The paint scheme is that of the Chessie System Railroad and the road number , 1973, is the year of its incorporation.
(Photo by Josh Trower)
A Norfolk Southern empty coal train from Plant Scherer in Julliette, Georgia passes Austell, Georgia. The empties are heading to Wyoming to be refilled The trains originate on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe RR and the locomotives run through to Georgia.
(Photo by Josh Trower)
The Nashville Chattanooga & St Louis Railway held the lease for the Western and Atlantic RR from 1890 to 1957. On a rainy day in Kennesaw a southbound CSX freight is lead by the NC&StL heritage unit.