The crew of this local turn - one of several based in North Charleston - is almost back to home base at Bennett Yard, just a few hundred yards ahead.

For the last few years, CSX has not been able to decide what to do with the line from Montgomery down through Dothan and Thomasville to Waycross. They don't seem to want it, but can't seem to let... (more)

A 'big' SCL freight heads south through rural Georgia behind a trio of U36Bs. At the time of the photo, Southern still operated a branch through Woodbury, but it is long gone.

A switch crew heads for the industrial park on the city's southwest side.

It looks like the crew member is about to flag his train across Main Street, but he is actually walking ahead to throw a switch and send his train down the branch to Forest City. Once his train ha... (more)

The daily Hamlet-NOLA run-through freight heads for Montgomery where it will move on to L&N rails.

Created from an old Baldwin switcher, slug 3009 is fresh from Railway Supply Company. RSCo utilized the former Western Railway of Alabama shops for their slug rebuilds, and other refurbs and conv... (more)

In spring/summer 1973, a buddy and I made several trips from home in Auburn to Montgomery, hoping to see and shoot lots of models and paint schemes. In Auburn we got two SCL-powered trains a day ... (more)

Hamlet-NOLA run-through train 215 is a big one on this day, with 124 cars behind five SCL GP40s and two West Point Route GP7s.

Hamlet-NOLA run-through train 215 - operating as Extra SCL 1610 on this day - rolls across 10th Street. Construction on an overpass has started, and in a few months this at-grade crossing will be... (more)

Poor ol' 197 used to be SCL black, but years of Alabama sun and the heat of its 567 - along with a good coating of long-untouched grime - have degraded the paint to whatever color this is.

One of the locals operating out of Bennett Yard is almost home as it passes the Amtrak/SCL station just north of the Rivers Avenue bridge.

585's crew has run to Croghan and back with 810. Now they will couple up to the B23-7, fetch their train out of the siding along the main, then head for Walterboro.

This is an Atlanta, GA-Florence, SC train, operated in conjunction with Georgia Railroad. It is sort of a 'leftover' from pre-SCL days when this route was Atlantic Coast Line's primary route betw... (more)

A switch crew heads out to work the industrial park out on Hayneville Road.