Southern Railway SD40-2 #3316 (flying white "extra" flags), SD45 3143 and another SD40-2 lead an empty "Pride" coal train back to the transloader on the Tennessee River at Pride, Alabama. The tower in the background was the office of the 27th Street Operator. Sloss Furnace, now a museum, is to the left of the train. Frisco 4018 has been moved just past the exhaust stacks in the background, adjacent to the track 3316 is leaving
Photos taken in the Deep South--primarily Alabama and Georgia--from the 1970s to the early 2000s. Featured railroads include the ICG, the West Point Route, SCL, Southern, Frisco, and even KCS.