Its trip to Salina from the Colorado mainline at Gypsum almost over, a very short local crosses the through truss bridge over the Smoky Hill River. For many years MP ran scheduled local freights ... (more)

The NS line between Opelika and Lafayette - a remnant of a longer CofG branch - was running out of time when this shot was made. It would be spun-off as the Pine Belt Southern, but that outfit on... (more)

Bracketing a much newer MP15 in Family Lines paint, a pair of GP7s illustrate striping variations in SCL's scheme.

Operator Steve Hicks gets ready to hand up orders to the crew of L&N 790, which is swinging across the plant at Amqui to head for Evansville.

It's a safe bet the guys redoing the billboard don't realize that 120, which runs day after day after day behind U36Bs offers 3 diesel treats this day, with a Uceta-rebuilt GP16, a U25C, and a nea... (more)

Ex-L&N 2800 takes a weed-spraying train south on the former Western Railway of Alabama. This is very close to the Vulcan Materials quarry opened in 2003.

Three of MP's burly GP50s are westbound on a hazy summer afternoon.

A B30-7 leads a GP38-2 and B23-7 (still in Seaboard System colors) south over the hilly ex-ACL line between Montgomery and Dothan.

Flat-scanned from a print purchased at Atlanta railfan show years ago. Photographer unknown. Repowered with EMD prime mover.

SW1500 with new, or newly-repainted, cab in Boyles Yard. This newer section of the yard must have been expensive, considering how much rock was removed.

Family Lines is becoming an operational reality as L&N C30-7 7008 - in Family Lines paint - heads north toward Birmingham on the SCL/ACL/AB&C/AB&A... future CSX.

In 1973, you rarely had to wait long to see railroad action in Opelika. There were lots of local rail customers, Southern and Western Railway of Alabama interchanged daily, and a Southern branch ... (more)

Slow orders on account of major signal work allows me to get a broadside shot of 8989. Maybe it's all that hood extending beyond the radiators, but the latest SD70s look a mile long to me.

L&N leaned heavily to four-axle power through Montgomery back in the 1970s but, as this photo shows, the C-Cs showed up as well.

Switch crew serve a downtown customer (Macon Telegraph?) on trackage that would be removed a few years later. That is Southern's mainline to Atlanta above 1328.