Southern 5119 is power for a work extra sent to Pine Mountain to clean-up a wreck in the curving cut on the north side of downtown.

L&N U30Cs are at the head of a loaded Harlee Branch coal train on the connection from the mainline, but they wait as the mixed train to Macon departs first. Couple maybe interesting sidenotes: T... (more)

Its nose bashed in and its 567s removed for installation into RS-1s, GM&O 101A has just about run out of time.

A trio of endcab switchers teams with a pair of slugs on a caboose hop about to drop down 'the slide' at Tilford Yard.

Three SD40-2s - the leader in L&N paint, with the two followers in Family Lines attire - lead a coal train out of Augusta on the former ACL. This looks like a pretty substantial bridge, but it sp... (more)

On a gray winter day - back when most everything in Georgia south of Atlanta was SCL or Southern - a southbound freight departed Albany. The big roads are mostly gone from this territory today, h... (more)

A dusty SW-slug set rolls through Inman Yard in northwest Atlanta. That's the L&N on the higher level.

A few of the tracks shown in this photo are still around and in use in 2012, and there's at least a chance some of those orange and white Paducah rebuilds might still be creeping around a short li... (more)

CSX slices between condos and river to reach industries and port facilities east of downtown Decatur. This track is shared with NS, just as is the Tennessee River (owned by NS) in the background o... (more)

No safety vests were required on a hot summer day - or any day - back in 1974. One of the few RS-1s to get orange and white leads two unrepainted Alcos as they put together a train for the Prattv... (more)

Burlington had lots of big, fast, busy lines in Illinois, but they also had an extensive web of branches. One such branch ran from connections with both mains just west of Aurora over to the Quad... (more)

A trio of SDPs takes the Floridian out of town and toward Birmingham and points north. It was still a big train in those days, but nightmarish problems north of Louisville would eventually kill r... (more)

A switching move didn't turn out as planned and now the local crew has to resort to poling to shove this car clear of the switch and free their locomotive.