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November 2022, I had set out in the hopes of catching AMTK 161, The Phase 1 Heritage Unit, Solo leading Amtrak P092-25. Here's AMTK P092 at Amtrak Winter Haven station. First opened in 1925, Winter Haven has served many railroads over the years, from serving the Seaboard Airline, to Amtrak, this station has seen it all, including its 1970's Amtrak "Arrow" Logo.

My best catch of 2023. A pair of Illinois Central SD70's work there way through the town Griffith, Indiana.

FEC 431, One of FEC's many GP40-2's on the roster, rests quietly at FEC's Bowden yard. A little less than a month rolls by after this photo was taken, 431 was headed up to Patterson, GA for rebuilding.

On what was supposed to be a cloudy day, a few friends and I we're headed out for Fort Myers to chase the SGLR's DeSoto turn. This is just one of 6 times that we'd successfully catch the DeSoto turn (they were going 15 mph so it was pretty easy).

Being delivered onto the SGLR in Early September of 2022, SGLR 598 is seen switching out cars to be put onto the northbound DeSoto turn, which runs from Fort Myers to Arcadia and interchanges with the CSX in Mulberry.

A very cloudy December Afternoon leads me and a friend towards Plant City, While waiting we hear the horn of CSX M453. Heres CSX M453-26 as it takes the Wye at Plant City with very few miles left on their trek from Waycross to work CSX's Winston yard outside Lakeland and continue onward to Miami.

Merry Christmas everyone! Recently, I was scrolling through the archives and I found this interesting catch of Amtraks Illinois Zephyr with quite the interesting lashup. In the lead is an Old BNSF C44-9W instead of the modern SC-44 they normally put on these trains.

A Norfolk Southern Transfer train slowly creeps out of their Simpson yard whilst transporting a cut of Manifest towards CSX's Moncrief Yard outside Jacksonville, FL

Another photo from the Jacksonville chronicles. At the North end of Norfolk Southerns Simpson Yard sits one of Norfolk Southerns heritage units, this one happening to be NS 8114 the "Original Norfolk Southern". NS 8114 had came into Simpson Yard about a day or 2 ago when this photo was taken and it just so happened to still be there when I went up so thats pretty neat.

On a gloomy, May Day. A couple of friends and I ventured out for the Jacksonville area. After stopping by Simpson, Baldwin, and many other places, one of my friends had found the Jax Port switcher switching out cars for customers. As soon as he found it, we rushed over to grab a couple of photos, this being my favorite.

Due to the wildfires that we're raging in Canada at the time, Almost the entire US was covered in a hazy fog. I decided to venture out on June 27th, unaware of the haziness that was over the state of Illinois. Metra 211 is seen trailing on an Inbound from Aurora, only beginning the trek towards Chicago.

On a oddly warm December morning, a friend and I are headed out towards Bartow, FL to find ourselves the brand new FCEN GP15's in a brand new, fresh coat of SCL paint. As we pull in, we are greeted by the 2 GP15's, which honestly look so much better in person.

A some-what cold afternoon outside Ft Myers, a friend and I stumble upon SGLR's Ft Myers yard. We decided to take a few photos of the many locomotives they had sitting this, 594 & 597 being 2 of them.

A Canadian National manifest is seen crawling through the town of Griffith, Indiana. Quite the lashup as well as there's 6 locomotives in total, 4 EMD, 2 GE's.

AMTK #184 is seen leading AMTK #5, The California Zephyr on a warm July afternoon. I'm glad I've gotten the chance to see 184 in person as it would get repainted in early March of 2023, although we have 164 so...oh well.