The whole gang who attended the BNSF Citizens for Rail Security meeting! It was a great meeting and a big thank you goes out to Special Agent Bryan Schaffer and the BNSF for making it happen!

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The attendees of the CRS meeting check out the locomotive facility in the BNSF Thomas Yard in Birmingham, AL.

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A CSX GP40-2 switches in the Boyles Yard near AX Tower. While not overly easy to photograph, this location is somewhat visible from Shuttlesworth Drive on the north side of Birmigham, AL.

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A southbound CSX train on the CSX #1 main dips under the 21st Street overpass in downtown Birmingham. The end of southbound NS train is visible to the right.

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The northbound Amtrak Crescent, train #20, eases out of the station at Birmingham on the CSX. The train will cross over to Norfolk Southern tracks at the 27th Street interlocking.

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A northbound CSX freight gets ready to duck under 21st Street as it heads towards Boyles Yard on the CSX #2 main. This was taken from the 21th Street overpass in downtown Birmingham.

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Unfortunately, I was on the wrong side of the sun which caused this shot of a BNSF yard job to be badly backlit. They are shown working the south end of Thomas Yard in Birmingham.

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CSX train Q577-02, with BNSF power on the point, heads south on the double track between Magella and Graces on the south side Birmingham, AL.

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An aging General Electric unit works a cut of cars on the #1 drill track at Mary Lee, which is at the south end of CSX Boyles Yard near Birmingham, AL.

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A Jefferson Warrior Railroad EMD SW1500 works the Sloss Industries facility near Tarrant City in Birmingham. The plant can be seen from 35th Ave N but you have to be lucky to catch them out where they are easy to photograph!

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This southbound NS trains is about to duck under the 21st Street overpass as it heads south on the NS #2 main near downtown Birmingham. CSX's main lines are visible on the left.

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A northbound CSX coal train waits on the Birmingham Mineral Subdivision in Fairfield, AL near Birmingham.

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BNSF power, most likely performing a transfer run, waits on Norfolk Southern trackage near the 32nd Street interlocking in Birmingham, AL.

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This NS coal train appears to be awaiting further clearance to proceed. It is seen near the NS's Finley Yard on the north side of Birmingham. This shot was taken from 16th Street N near the ACIPCO plant.

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Some idle CSX power near the engine house in Boyle Yard in Tarrant City, just northeast of Birmingham, AL.

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A pair of CSX light engines heads north through the 24th Street interlocking towards Boyles Yard. The crew called their "train" K796 on the radio.

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An NS unit switches a cut of cars near 2nd Ave in downtown Birmingham, AL.

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This Norfolk Southern EMD unit works a cut of cars at the NS Finley Yard on the north side of Birmingham, AL.

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A pair of CSX SD38-2 units switch a cut of cars at Mary Lee near the south end of CSX's Boyles Yard in Birmingham, AL.

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An ex-Conrail SD50 and an EMD leaser perform switching duties near CSX's Boyles Yard in Birmingham, AL.

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An NS "geep" switches a cut of cars in Finley Yard near the north side of Birmingham, AL.

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We caught this trio of BNSF units switching a cut of cars on the south end of Thomas Yard on the north side of Birmingham.

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In Tarrant City, on the northeast side of Birmingham, we found this ABC Coke unit (which looks to be an SW1001) switching a cut of cars. This location is close to CSX's Boyles Yard.

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American Cast Iron Pipe Company operates a plant on the north side of Birmingham near the Finley area. Here is a shot of one of their switchers, which appears to be an MP15DC.

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In a late afternoon shot, we find a pair of GE's, with a U23B on the point, working near CSX's Boyles Yard in Birmingham, AL.

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