Its 567s already removed for transplanting into a pair of RS-1s, 101A will soon be towed to West End Yard, where it will spend a few weeks before heading to the scrapper.

Headed to switch industrial park on Montgomery's southwest side

After a Hamlet-Atlanta leg on SCL and an Atlanta-Montgomery trip over the West Point Route, Train 615 is a few minutes into the Montgomery-New Orleans run over L&N.

This boxer belonged to an A-OK employee's family who lived right beside the KCS-AOK interchange. It took a while for it to decide that me shooting 2442 was ok.

WofA suffered a broken coupler on the pull up the hill headed north from Opelika, and waits in the siding for a repair crew from Montgomery.

It's after dusk as a crew comes out of the joint L&N/SCL S&NA Yard in Montgomery to rescue two trains dead on hours at the junction near Bell Street. They have an L&N Mobile Sub local with a pair ... (more)

Ex-GM&O 706 sits on the turntable at West End Yard with RS-1 1122 on one end, and IC's first GP38 on the other.

A six-unit set of C-Cs running engine light comes down the middle of Cherry Street and across Dooly Street. Citizens have been complaining for years about trains clogging downtown, and relief is ... (more)

A handicapped man who used to visit the Union Station platforms to watch trains waves at the crew of a northbound.

Railway Supply Company refurbished a Virginia Blue Ridge SW1 for Kaiser Chemical, painting it a strange, buttery yellow, and numbering it using what look like Scotchlite stick-ons from an outdated... (more)

Troop extra? Photo by Matthew Herson

The M&B doesn't get much attention, and what it does get often seems focused on the west end of this bridge, which is a steel through-truss span over the main channel of the Black Warrior River. I... (more)

The scene may be nondescript, but the track is the original South Carolina Canal and Railroad, one of the oldest segments of rail line in the United States. There were few customers left in the a... (more)

The headend crew waits in the relatively cool shade of Union Station's dilapidated train shed. May in Nashville can be pretty hot, so anybody in the caboose is likely several degrees warmer.

One of the Southern agents in Opelika either had a warped sense of humor, or maybe just did not like me. Whatever the reason, he on multiple occasions gave incorrect info about what trains were w... (more)