With a blizzard like this, it's a sure thing that local groceries have sold-out all bottled water, milk, bread, etc to panicked residents hoping to somehow make it through this trial.

Dusty SDs (a 45 and a 35) lead an eastbound freight out of Opelika and toward Columbus, GA.

Geeps and cabooses mingle at Clifton Forge back when it was still a very important spot on the Chesapeake & Ohio.

I am guessing the crew members on this southbound were just fine having ten-year-old 1735 in the lead on a hazy November morning 40 years ago. That BQ23-7 might have been brand-new, but dislike o... (more)

Three SD40-2s and a GP38-2 swing to the right and off the New Orleans main as they start their trip to north Alabama and then on to Memphis. Just ahead at 27th Street interlocking they will cross... (more)

Alabama Reunion Train making state-sponsored tour of the state

MP crew switches their tiny Lincoln yard. That's BN in the background.

A lone SD9 flying green flags heads west with a mainline local. This is an unusual shot in that, by 1972, Southern's six SD9s and lone SD7 (all inherited from C of G) were generally in captive ser... (more)

Southbound Floridian is close to on-time on a beautiful summer afternoon.

Early on a humid morning, the usual deep-south haze combines with fog rising from Mobile Bay to obscure distant objects. In the ex-GM&O yard below Telegraph Road, a crew uses an all ex-IC locomot... (more)

Acquired in trade - location and photographer unknown

A former GM&O GP30 - in fresh orange and white - is in familiar territory as it greets the early morning sun with a Paducah rebuild from that 'other' road.

The Western used a small IH tractor to pull a trailer around the engine facility at Chester Yard to service the diesels. All three affiliated roads - WofA, A&WP and GARR - are represented here.