Florida: The Consumer State! I have heard statistics that 90% of rail cars come to Florida as loads, and leave as empties. As southbound NS 321 (far track) passes northbound NS 330 (near track), i... (more)

Photographer- unknown- from the 35 mm original Kodachrome slide. August 28 and 29, 1976 saw former 4449 GS-4 head up an excursion from Atlanta, GA to Alexandria, VA in order to get the big GS-... (more)

A lone SD9 flying green flags heads west with a mainline local. This is an unusual shot in that, by 1972, Southern's six SD9s and lone SD7 (all inherited from C of G) were generally in captive ser... (more)

Brand new Southern Railway GP38-2s (Nos. 5122 and 5120) show off their traditional black/white/gold scheme at dusk on the Indiana Harbor Belt at La Grange, IL. The units are fresh out of the EMD ... (more)

The hometown Interstate Railroad was known for owning a rather eclectic fleet of steam locomotives--some bought new, but most second hand acquisitions from here and there. A prime example was 2-8-... (more)

Local job working at Greenville with Southern GP30 2586 || March 1984

NCTM hostlers take the museum's Southern Railway FP7A for a spin on the turntable. ACL 4-6-0 #1031 and a Southern derrick are seen sitting outside the roundhouse.

Southern 5119 is power for a work extra sent to Pine Mountain to clean-up a wreck in the curving cut on the north side of downtown.

With Orion and his belt standing guard in the dark sky, the impressive figure of Norfolk Southern's inactive signal at Melrose, the bottom of the Saluda Grade is also quite a presence.

The remnant of Southern's "Royal Palm" slows for its Georgetown stop.

Freshly shopped SOU GP30 on local switching Hattiesburg

Notching it out and smoking it up on the former NKP in 1985.

The Pregnall Turn is arriving at the Southern Seven Mile Yard (named for its milepost location) in North Charleston, SC as the local's conductor expresses his appreciation for the yard conductor h... (more)

After leaving the Charlotte/Winston-Salem main at Mooresville, train 167 has reached Statesville and is about to enter the Salisbury-Asheville main. It may not look like it, but that track just i... (more)

A threesome of GP50s curves behind Macon's Terminal Station on its way to Brosnan Yard with a freight from Atlanta. At the time of the photo, the track beyond 7034 hosted Augusta and Savannah tra... (more)