The 8923, built for the New York Central in 1951, was H&MC's backup unit for their regular SW9, the 8933, for several years, but to my knowledge, it spent most or all of that time sitting behind a... (more)
The silence of a Sunday afternoon is shattered as an empty Palos coal train blasts through downtown Carbon Hill, along the former Frisco in west Alabama. The parked covered hoppers at right appear... (more)