A 40-year old look at a minor Alabama rail center.

BN (SLSF) GP38-2 2365 leads local train 111 past an empty UEL waiting on a new crew. The local is on the former SLSF St Louis-Memphis line, while the UEL will take the MP branch in the foregroun... (more)

Faded 5518 leads a freshly repainted SD40-2 and a train up from St Louis west on the mainline. The GP40 came from Conrail, but was originally an NYC locomotive.

One of C&NW's typically faded yellow bay-window cabs trails a northbound freight headed from St Louis to the mainline at Nelson. The ROW was elevated for quite a distance where the line passed we... (more)

Just before a spring shower hits Clinton, an empty coal train headed for the Powder River Basin makes a crew change. I never would have said this to the guys in the photo (I had friends on both c... (more)

A Twin Cities-bound freight comes out of the west end of Marshalltown yard and takes a right off the Council Bluffs mainline to head out the former M&StL toward Mason City.

A pair of GP7s heads out what was once ACL's mainline between Florence and Wadesboro, NC. Many former ACL and SAL lines in this area are now gone, though a few were spun-off to shortlines.

After a trip down the branch to Croghan, just across the Ashley River from downtown Charleston, the crew has the power for their Walterboro-Bennett Yard turn back at the mainline at Johns Island. ... (more)

SAL's Charleston-Hamlet main was relegated to second-class status after the merger, but it was an interesting, photogenic line. The long timber trestle over Goose Creek was one of many on the lin... (more)

SCL 966 teams with a much newer U18B to move a local train toward Boyles. The train has just slipped across the south side of downtown, and is about to cross Southern's line to Sheffield and Memph... (more)

The GP35 was not an important model on SCL's roster with just 16 units; six inherited from ACL, and ten from SAL. After the merger, the GP35s seemed to show up more often on former SAL secondary ... (more)

The lead diesel is in full shade as L&N run-through train 214 climbs around the curve and out of Opelika on a summer evening. GP38s are front and back, but in between are 4 U-boats, including 2 U... (more)

Waiting for clearance to head fro Birmingham...

The daily L&N run-through passes the hotbox detector just west of Auburn.