On this cool November night, we have a rare sight in CSX’s Brookley Siding in Mobile, AL. UP 1943 (Spirit of the Union Pacific) on point of CSX Q602-01 (New Orleans, GA to Waycross, GA). After t... (more)

As the late, afternoon sun continues its dissent in the western sky and the June day is starting to cool down, a small group of railfans gather at the south end of the NS yard in Mobile, AL to sho... (more)

Alabama Export RR crews take a Canadian National coal train from the McDuffie Coal Terminal, where it has just been unloaded for export. This is an elusive railroad operation, so seeing CN power o... (more)

As the CSX Sibert and the Terminal Railway (TRR) yards continue the afternoon work, the ALE to T.R.R. interchange job does some switching with a pair of ALE’s ex-HLCX GP38-2s.

Louisville & Nashville SW1500 #5003 coupled to a pristine Missouri Pacific 40 foot box car. #5003, built April 1970, later became Seaboard System 1103; then re# CSX 1103

Alabama Export Railroad's locomotive 3863 performs switch jobs at Mobile, Alabama.

AGR 3211 sits idling at the rail yard in Mobile Alabama. A hose was attached to the air hose of the locomotive to supply air pressure to nearby train cars.

Tied down with a CN switcher just outside the Alabama State Docks in Mobile, AL.

New CSX rebuild 7204 leads CSX manifest train Q605 from Waycross, GA - New Orleans, LA. Here we see it passing the Convention Center in Downtown Mobile, AL.

In 2014, two of Alabama State Docks' MP15DC switchers were rebuilt into RP14BD Gensets by Railpower. The locomotives now feature a pair of Deutz Diesel 16 liter V8s that put out 670 horsepower for... (more)

Three of Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks' switchers sitting in Mobile after finishing their daily work.

BNSF has a menagerie of rebuilds that started life as Second-Gen geeps, and wound up as GP39s of some sort, but this is a renumbered GP39-2 that was among the big group of 39-2s that Santa Fe acqu... (more)

The merger is recent enough that these geeps still have their Frisco colors, though BN numbers have been assigned. The green was coming, though, and way too quickly. Think wood products were a b... (more)

The daily train from Amory, MS drops down the hill at Chickasaw on its final lap into Mobile.

Recently renumbered former Frisco geeps - and one green interloper - sit in the engine facility at the former Frisco/AT&N yard on Telegraph Road.