NS C30-7 8032 leading a southbound at Birmingham || Spring 1985

The NS (Central of Georgia) turn to Lafayette (Trains 7/8 in pre-CSX days) used about two miles of rights over the CSX (Western Railway of Alabama) between Opelika and Roanoke Junction. Here, #7 ... (more)

Power from Train #614. A Roger Puta photograph

No work in Auburn on this day, so the local is really rolling. Looks like a pretty big train (common in those days), so the old EMD probably had a tough go on the 12 mile climb from the Tallapoos... (more)

An SD50 teams with an SD40-2 to take grain loads south on the old West Point Route.

The old West Point Route has never been a big coal conduit, but it used to see at least a few unit trains like this one, likely headed south for the export coal terminal at Mobile.

Westbound BS port job passing through Mulga

Photo by Roger Puta.

After meeting three south bounds the dispatcher give CSX Q212-15 the signal to proceed northbound out of the number two main track in Stevenson, AL (MP J-112.9 Stevenson). This 9,000ft in length e... (more)

Southbound train departing Erwin, TN during the summer of 1986.

A storm in the mid-1990s caused enough damage to the former Central of Georgia main between Birmingham and Columbus, GA to require reroutes via Atlanta. When repairs were finished, NS decided to ... (more)

NS 743 with NS #2541 leads the short lived Coltainer Train as it heads west bound to Berry, AL, Once loaded it will head back to Parrish, AL were the coal loads will be trucked to the power plant ... (more)

This Hamlet-NOLA train ran with SP power for years - mostly high-hp B-Bs - but by 1999, UP diesels were showing up more and more.

Georgia Railroad 1025 switches along North Court Street in the Western Railway of Alabama's yard.

The mill being switched by the local provides a photo backdrop, with a junkyard full of Detroit iron in the foreground.