Growing up in Georgia and Alabama, I spent a lot of time around rivers like the Chattahoochee, Oconee, Coosa and Tallapoosa. Saw them flood lots of times. None of that prepared me for the Missis... (more)

When you think of BN and/or Streator IL, you likely think 'big-time' railroading. You would not be wrong, but there was another side to Streator and the former CB&Q, as seen in this photo of Q's ... (more)

After running from New Orleans as L&N 414, this run-through train will shortly be on the rails of the West Point Route, where it will operate as train 214 to Atlanta. This was in the early days o... (more)

A northbound train goes over the short rolling stretch of line just south of the tunnel passing under NS(SR).

ICG GP8 7740 is leading a slightly newer Paducah-built GP10 as a switch job heads across the Southern crossing. In the background are the yards of the Southern and, across Telegraph Road, the BN (... (more)

Three dusty GP7s bring a train around the big curve in the Clifton Forge yard, back when this was still a hopping place.

A GP38 assigned to Opelika works its local train as a lone SD9 flying green section following flags heads west on the main. By 1972, Southern's six SD9s and lone SD7 (all inherited from C of G) ... (more)

Battered but still beautiful, 6907 and another green E8A bracket a pair of black FP7As on the southbound Crescent as it slides past Tuscaloosa's turreted station on a hazy late spring day in Alaba... (more)

In 1973 L&N Fs were still fairly common around Atlanta and Birmingham, but they were considered great catches in Montgomery. Here, 614 sits surrounded by ground soaked thoroughly by years of fuel ... (more)

Coal passes Nashville's Union Station on its way south as a couple of U23Bs idle in the great building's shadow.

OK, it isn't Thurmond, WV, but Calera was a railroad town, with businesses (including a hotel and a drug store) that fronted on the railroad. That's Southern in the foreground, with L&N on the ot... (more)

No work in Auburn on this day, so the local is really rolling. Looks like a pretty big train (common in those days), so the old EMD probably had a tough go on the 12 mile climb from the Tallapoos... (more)

Leading empty hoppers south toward Calera, L&N 3007 is about to duck under SCL's ex-AB&C bridge at Helena. MofW folks may want to take a look at the failing embankment along Buck Creek, just out o... (more)

Back when Birmingham skies were often smudgy from the many operating steel mills, BS 251 works in the Ensley yard.