Stonewall Connection
At Union City, Georgia the CSX A&WP/WofA Subdivision and Manchester Subdivision interact with one another via two connections, the Stonewall Connection was built in the late 1980s to give intermodal trains a straight run from Hulsey Yard to Jacksonville and vise versa. Twenty years later the Vaughn Connection was built to the north to allow trains a more direct route into Tilford yard thus bypassing downtown Atlanta. Those traffic patterns have changed since the original plans were implemented and now it can be anyone's guess as to what will go where and when. In this view Q042 makes it's way north with CSXT 153 after departing the Fairburn Ramp as Q154 holds on the Stonewalll Connection. February 22, 2014
Stonewall Connection
At Union City, Georgia the CSX A&WP/WofA Subdivision and Manchester Subdivision interact with one another via two connections, the Stonewall Connection was built in the late 1980s to give intermodal trains a straight run from Hulsey Yard to Jacksonville and vise versa. Twenty years later the Vaughn Connection was built to the north to allow trains a more direct route into Tilford yard thus bypassing downtown Atlanta. Those traffic patterns have changed since the original plans were implemented and now it can be anyone's guess as to what will go where and when. In this view Q042 makes it's way north with CSXT 153 after departing the Fairburn Ramp as Q154 holds on the Stonewalll Connection. February 22, 2014