Despite the weather, all along the route of the Santa Train people came out just to see it and the 75%- beautiful locomotive. Sorry CSX Clinchfield loyalist here.

With nicely matched paint schemes and newly renamed cars the Santa Train is beautiful and the sun failed to appear just like always.

CSX's officer car special P905 speeds south through rural north Georgia on its Evansville, IN - Atlanta, GA run

Northbound Q210 passes a grain train tied down on the GNRR interchange at North Elizabeth

A Jacksonville, FL bound intermodal train pounds the NS and HOG diamonds at Cordele

CSX local L818-18 heads south back to Talladega as they sweep around a curve at Renfroe, AL. with CSXT GP38-2 #2625 leading the way wearing the L&N paint scheme on the nose of the engine.

CSX local L818-18 heads south back to Talladega passing through Saint Ives, AL. with CSXT GP38-2 #2625 leading the way wearing the L&N paint scheme on the nose of the engine.

CSX Q541 utilizes the NS on its way to East Point where it will reach home rails on the A&WP.

One of the final circus train rounds the big fill at Cook Springs, Al

The CSX OCS heads south for Waycross and Jacksonville

CSXT GP38-2 #2625, sporting the L&N paint scheme on the nose is seen leading job L818-06 back north across South Street in Talladega, AL. with interchange from the EARY a couple of miles south of ... (more)

CSX 9969, GP40WH-2, with W004, eastbound on #2 track. Is crossing Sewickley Creek on the CSX Pittsburgh sub at BF-297 Gratztown, Pennsylvania. May 12, 2016. Jack D Kuiphoff photo ©

CSX 118- 119, with the Western Maryland Salisbury viaduct as a backdrop, we see a eastbound OCS on the ex-B&O Keystone sub. We are on the west slope of Sand Patch grade, just west of Salisbury Jun... (more)

CSXT 911 is paired with a heritage unit yet again, this time with the NYC unit instead of the RF&P unit we saw it with earlier this year. Seeing lashups like this may become slightly more common a... (more)

CSX's Geometry Train W00308 screams through the Muirkirk MARC Station on CSX's Capital Subdivision. About a decade ago, the former MARC GP40WH-2 regularly traversed MARC's Camden Line pictured her... (more)