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A former Burlington Northern SD40-2 displays an acceptable form of tagging on its cab and number boards as it earns its keep and desperately waits for a trip to the paint... (more)

Sweet Home Chicago….almost
Laying along the inactive former Missouri Pacific line to Pueblo, a pair if rails from a steel mill of the Midwest proudly display their branding and Dece... (more)

A747 and Q601 wait patiently on the siding at Mt. Meigs as Q612, the second of three north bound trains, passes at track speed on the main.

Creeping along a speed much lower than that of the nearby roadway, the 3375 passes over the less than stellar runaround track in Senoia as it begins to serve this lines one and only customer south... (more)

With the merger of the Gulf Mobile & Ohio (GM&O) to the Illinois Central on August 10, 1972, a new railroad name would be created, thus the Illinois Central Gulf was born. Along with a new name w... (more)

The Artrain USA caboose and car exhibit make their first visit to the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum. This will be the only visit for the caboose, though, because it is scheduled for retirement l... (more)

On time and on its way to the station, the southbound Crescent makes its way into the Birmingham station on CSX track #1.

Route Rock
With the failed merger into the UP behind in, the Rock Island trustees decided a new image would have to be created to show customers that this railroad was serious about im... (more)

Originally built for the Seaboard Coast Line in 1980, this veteran B30-7 is the lone engine of aggregate train W059 as it heads... (more)

52 cars of sand make up today’s K736 as heads north through the city of Opelika passing the remains of a former Western Railway of Alabama coaling tower that presently resides here.

Orange Crush
Wearing brand new paint and leading an all-orange Genesee & Wyoming consist for today’s Z762, the six axle MB 3402 pulls a very long train of boxcars around the Alabama... (more)

Originally built in 1898 and officially opened to the public on October 9th 1900, the late-Victorian Romanesque Revival architecture on Nashville’s Union Station provides a fitting backdrop for ... (more)

These two beauties are seen taking a break, like everyone else on Memorial Day.

Standard Railroad of the South
Built by the American Locomotive Co. Richmond Works in 1919, the logo of ACL 1504 still adorns one of the few USRA designed steam engines that remains in... (more)

This signal was once a part of the Missouri Pacific’s mainline to Pueblo and saw such famous trains as the Colorado Eagle and Ford Fast automotive train. During the combined SP & Rio Grande sys... (more)