Southern's tuxedo color scheme looked good on a lot of models, but I always thought it worked best on high-nose GEs, like U23B 3942, seen here trying dodge the Georgia sun by squeezing under the o... (more)

Maybe 9,500hp worth of GP30s and 35s is not the ideal set-up for unit coal service, but it worked for many years for Southern.

Train graveyard of fallen flag equipment.

The late afternoon sun blows up the Scotchlite numbers and letters on 3994 as it crosses above Jackson Avenue. A couple of noteworthy structures are included in the photo. In the distance is Cam... (more)

I played 'catch the sun' all weekend on one of my few trips to Tuscaloosa way back when. As the Crescent rolled in from Birmingham, it was overcast as heck. A few minutes later, a brief sweet sp... (more)

A few coaches and locomotives in the Soule shops.

Chickamauga Turn passes the Chattanooga Zoo.

Southern 2-8-0 #630 with a train of passengers leaves Chattanooga

Sometimes when I shoot steam, I want to shoot it in such a way that almost makes the viewer think the shot could have been made in the heyday of steam. But with this shot, I thought it told a bett... (more)

2601 shuffles some bi-level coaches on the south end of the North Carolina Transportation Museum to make room for the 611 night photo session later than evening.

Southern 6900 sits outside the roundhouse in Spencer enjoying the afternoon sun before its shoved in its stall for the night.

Newer, more powerful EMDs and GEs were around by 1985, but I bet this crew was still pretty happy to see that their ride would be a trio of SD40-2s. Here, they are slowing to a stop to allow a tr... (more)

5000 returns some empty hoppers to NS @ Chattanooga Tn

This is a pretty good snapshot of much of the countryside of southwest Georgia - gently rolling terrain covered with pine trees and dotted with modest frame houses, and of branchline operations of... (more)