Still wearing the old L&N number this "basic" SD-40 seems to have just a bit better aesthetic balance than the -2 in my opinion.

Just another nice looking SBD unit.

This is an amazing picture, to me. I had considered all these gone for a few years when two showed up in the yard in Hamlet getting periodic inspections. I don't know how they survived so long.

Bring back the chuggers! Sure, they liked water almost as well as diesel fuel but they sure sounded good. We L&N ran out of space in the 1500 series they backed these into the 1400s, otherwise o... (more)

Not one of my favorites from the fan stand point but undoubtedly "the" locomotive of the 70s and 80s. This one looks great in it's short-lived paint job as it waits to go north and back into the ... (more)

Well folks here is my nomination for the worst post-merger renumbering job. This used to be....., oh let me see, I think it was L&N 1007. She's in for her quarterlies or whatever.

Gosh, I wish these had caught on. They sounded kind of like a big tractor, nothing like the usual chugging FDL and the were, for lack of a better term, "cute". The early order had FB-2 trucks, l... (more)

Another nice rarity on the SBD.

Gosh, for a simple scheme that didn't cost a fortune to apply, for my money you just can't beat this one. And there were only four of the ex-L&N GP-18s. One was destroyed prior to SBD. So this ... (more)

Passing the depot at College Park is Atlanta & West Point train #413, originated at L&N's Atlanta Tilford Yard

Returning to Etowah

A day after New Year's in 1986 found one of the SCL Uceta GP16 rebuilds at the platforms in West Palm Beach. Note the track gang house still there at the time. Hard to believe that sort of thing s... (more)

Serving as power for the Oglethorpe Switcher, along with caboose SCL 01092, B23-7 # 5147 idles in the yard while the crew is in the depot. The crossing with the former Southern Railway (Central o... (more)

Seaboard System train #507, Manchester-Fitzgerald, GA long distance local, passing north end of Woodland siding. B23-7 5145 leads GP16 4714, GP38-2 6049 and GP16 4770