After a powering the Lafayette turn, Southern's last GP35 shares space with GP38 2745, just back from a trip to Royal City

913 and crew are pulling out from the relative calm of the Winston-Salem line onto the congested mainline and shop area in downtown Roanoke

Amtrak initiated operations with a fleet of Es and Fs bought or leased from the member roads. Most of them were quite old, while the rest were very old. In spite of the fleet's age, scenes like ... (more)

GP35 1122 leads a trio of newer GP38s on run-thru train that used A&WP/WofA between Atlanta and Montgomery.

One of the last cab units left on L&N sits at the Boyles engine facility. I saw this unit at Cullman 15 days later, as trailing unit on the northbound long-distance local. It was last time I eve... (more)

Power for Athens branch service waits out a Sunday afternoon in the Union Point yard.

Southern's tuxedo color scheme looked good on a lot of models, but I always thought it worked best on high-nose GEs, like U23B 3942, seen here trying dodge the Georgia sun by squeezing under the o... (more)

A not-so-pretty black cab brings up the rear of a D&RGW freight exiting Byers Canyon as it heads west through the Colorado morning.

GARR 1031 is heading home to Chester Yard with a transfer cut from L&N as a crew member gets ready to drop off and flag the train across North Court Street.

On a bright March morning, a pair of geeps bring a train from Selma into Montgomery. Though not nearly as busy as the Montgomery-Atlanta mainline, the Selma branch in 1975 still fielded a pair of... (more)

This venerable hogger may be having a hard time keeping his focus on working the WofA interchange in Opelka, what with his last day on the railroad likely getting close.

On a dreary February day forty years ago, the usual quartet of GP40s brings Hamlet-New Orleans run-through #215 down the WofA. The train started its journey on the former SAL, and will make the l... (more)

E8As of B&O and RF&P heritage team with a B-unit still in UP colors to lead the Floridian out of Montgomery's Union Station for points north.

The crew's day took a bad turn when their GP40 slipped off the rails on the spur into a cotton mill. An Opelika fixture for decades (and location for much of the movie 'Norma Rae', OMC is long-go... (more)