The engineer of Y196 stops to and checks the controls of his remote unit as he continues switching cars on the south end of the S&NA yard in Montgomery with a venerable GP40-2 at the helm.

The engines of today’s Q681 slowly make their way towards their train in the S&NA yard while Y550 goes about putting its train tog... (more)

Three years after the merger with IC, GM&O 645 still has its black and white scheme - including unusual nose lettering - as it shares space with an orange and white geep.

The conductor of Q650 radios the engineer to start the reverse move towards the locomotive shops where the CSXT 8367 and 68 shall be dropped off and then the lead engines of Q650 will promptly hea... (more)

In L&N's pre-CSX stealth scheme, 416 switches a Georgia RR hopper just beyond the shadow of the yard tower.

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Chemical, painting it a strange, buttery yellow, and numbering it using what look like Scotchlite stick-ons from an outdated...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)

A celebrity of the CSX GP38-2 world is seen resting this morning in the S&NA yard. This unit was built for the Seaboard Coast Line and delivered in the more)

A pair of GP38-2 models start their day off with the sorting of cars in the south side of the S&NA yard. These two units were both built by EMD in 1973 and delivered to the majority components of... (more)

Q579 finally gets permission to leave out of Montgomery and uses all the muscle its two AC4400 locomotives can generate to pull their "high and wide" transformer that's seen second out in the frei... (more)

A former GM&O GP30 is in familiar territory as it sits in front of the old roundhouse at Montgomery's West End Yard.

A rare find in the form of two GP38-2 locomotives idle away in the S&NA yard. Both of these units were delivered from EMD in 1973, the 2626 was built for the L&N and the 2508 was built for the SC... (more)

This run-through has just picked-up a new crew for the jaunt down L&N to Mobile, but they haven't quite entered L&N rails so I stuck with the WofA train number. U23B 2707 is a former Monon unit, a... (more)

It's a bird...it's a train! Don't adjust your monitor, that is in fact the silhouette of a bird in flight as it passes between myself and Y550 which continues to build up the freight train... (more)

The remote controlled locomotive for today's Y196 takes a brief pause as the engineer heads into the yard office for some paper work. Meanwhile a boom truck crosses the tracks along the Northern ... (more)

As the tail end of a 129 long car Q579 holds the main, K971 takes to the Vera Siding all the while Y191 heads up track 2 on a busy day in the S&NA yard.