A former GM&O GP30 is in familiar territory as it sits in front of the old roundhouse at Montgomery's West End Yard.

A former Norfolk Southern GP18 and two more geeps lead a MOW ballast train along one of the oldest railroad lines in the USA. Judging from all those markers showing where defects were detected, b... (more)

So dirty it looks more brown than black, SCL 810 has just brought a few cars off the Croghan branch on a gray January day. After coupling to the B23-7 in the background, the crew will reassemble t... (more)

Headed back to West End after delivering a cut to SCL/L&N.

This train has just 'taken a right' to head for Pensacola, FL, but most of it is still on the old L&N's NOLA-Cincy main stem back around the curve. Power may look boring, but there is a bit of va... (more)

SD40-2 3240 sits near the soon-to-be-removed coaling tower. In the background, a yard worker sands a GP7.

Caboose 1021 may have great paint, but it has other issues. This photo illustrates two things - the Erwin shop area always offered a surprise or two, and the Clinchfield had a weird collection of... (more)

Half of Southern's B36-7 fleet hits a sunny spot as they lead an intermodal freight up the tough mainline to Atlanta.

585's crew has run to Croghan and back with 810. Now they will couple up to the B23-7, fetch their train out of the siding along the main, then head for Walterboro.

Employees chat during the crew change at Montgomery. One of only two times that I saw four SDPs on Floridian. Guess they were ferrying SDPs to Florida.

A crew member pours used oil on a tight curve on the way to service the warehouse of a North Charleston beer distributor.

GM&O (and later ICG) depended on RS-1s for about 30 years, from the start of deliveries in 1945, until ICG finally pulled the plug in late 1975 and replaced the Alcos with a flood of geeps. In Mo... (more)

Four 6000-series SD40-2s - purchased with unit-train coal service in mind - barrel through the plains with 100 cars of coal received from the D&RGW at Pueblo. No tracks remain at this location.

On what was a well-trafficked line back in Seaboard Air Line days, just a handful of cars trail the three diesels on the six-days-a-week Columbus turn. In a couple years CSX will sell the line to... (more)