Still working hard for many decades now, this Ex Conrail EMD waits with a short consist in Birmingham for a crew. At dusk, this 3,000 horsepower beast finally gets powered up.

Photo by Dick Campbell. From my collection.

For the time being, this Loram Ballast Cleaner calls the house track in Roanoke home until its next call for duty.

The first real road switcher looking pretty.

A lone NS engine heads north on its way to cross the Tennessee River and pick up cars from various industries before bringing them back to their yard in Decatur.

An NS train heads south across the Tennessee River with BNSF run-through power.

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The returning Guntersville Turn with a former B&O unit, still unmodified to reflect the change to CSXT. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

On the day before Mother's Day, the North Alabama Railroad (NARM) on their Mercury and Chase Railroad operates a "Mother and Son" excursion train. The train is about to clear the Chase ... (more)

Challenge: Top this for a bad paint job. This was the yard switcher de jour I found on a business trip. Former C&O unit.

CSX's Riverfront Local heads past the old Stone Lumber building as it begins its return trip to Oakworth Yard.

One of the many plentiful GE Dash 8 models CSX owned at the time makes its way through a cut in northern Calera as it pulls 104 cars behind it. This B’ham to New Orleans manifest train is being... (more)

A southbound is approaching, so this work train takes the siding as a storm clears at Broughton. I guess those hoppers are carrying gold, since that's where the rainbow ends.

A pair of NS SD40Es head west out of Norris Yard. Visible in the background is former Southern Railway Bay Window Caboose X500, owned by the City of Irondale and used as a train-viewing platform.

NS 187 pulls past 20th Street after arriving at Norris Yard with DC to AC conversion unit #4004 third out.