Riding 2707's footboards, a crew member on an eastbound freight (136 or 138?) looks down the WofA interchange tracks and contemplated the next few switching moves.

A southbound freight - so close to Brosnan Yard the crew can smell it - has to cool its heels in the Arkwright passing track as a northbound intermodal roars by behind three B36-7s - half of South... (more)

L&N 863 was very close to the end as she waited at the e.f. in Boyles Yard. I caught her on a Nashville freight a few days later and, though I didn't know it at the time, would never see another L... (more)

A crew member steps across the Southern as local train #5 works the sidings and interchange tracks around the depot.

Purchase of CMStP&P by Soo is a few months old, and everybody is getting into the act on the rear of a southbound headed for KC, with a single Milwaukee cab, a run-through MKT cab, and a gaggle of... (more)

Amtrak's northbound Floridian was a dependable catch about mid-morning in Montgomery, but the southbound train was chronically late, sometimes several hours so. A big reason it eventually failed..... (more)

L&N SD40-2s head for coal country with a train of empties returning from Florida.

Montgomery, like most cities, once had a web of track that served downtown commercial businesses and warehouses. On just such a section of track - removed years ago - CSX 1230 heads across Pollard... (more)

Ex-B&O 1453 waits to lead the northbound Floridian out of Montgomery's Union Station.

As Family Lines started to become an operational reality in the early 1970s, both SCL and L&N established run-through trains that used the A&WP/WofA between Atlanta and Montgomery. For the first ... (more)

The ICG has been around for 3 years, but if you can ignore that 3rd unit (an ex-IC Paducah rebuild), this scene at Tuscaloosa looks like the good old days. This train has come from the old GM&O m... (more)

There's a lot of work left to do, but Southern's steam crew will have Reading 2101 ready to lead the AFT in just a few weeks.

Back in the day, the procedure for Southern and Western Railway of Alabama trains passing through Opelika included a full stop at the crossing of the two lines. After a crew member ascertained th... (more)

SLSF was all B-B power into Mobile, and BN pretty much continued that practice for a few years. But by the 1990s and the Santa Fe merger, any sort of power could show up in Mobile. However, even... (more)

Georgia 300 and a couple of L&N cars sit on a scruffy siding a few hundred feet north of the Auburn University stadium. The big wheels are in town to watch Auburn thrash Florida State. I believe ... (more)