The days leading up to "Streamliners at Spencer" provided all sorts of colorful, wild, and unconventional locomotive consists. Such is the case here, as Southern 6900 retrieved Union Pac... (more)

5000L resting @ Chattanooga Tenn.

SAL 544 and SR 542 in the Roundhouse permanently waiting for the call.

Three Southern Railway GP50’s wheel a southbound manifest through Faber, Virginia. Although GP50’s had been around for close to two years, they did not sell in the northeast, and this was my f... (more)

A crewmember handles the switch so 630 and 4501 can be positioned for watering.

A northbound Southern coal train is crossing the Tye River at Tye River, Virginia. Three SD40-2’s are approaching the site of the one-time interchange with the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway. The p... (more)

A Southern pig train is seen rolling southbound through Monroe, Virginia with three GP50’s for power. Within a few years, the yard at Monroe would be abandoned, and most tracks other than the tw... (more)

As Southern 2-10-4 610 backs its excursion train away from the Alexandria, Virginia passenger station, RF&P tonnage rolls south.

Southern Railway #401 creeps down museum trackage towards the museum site for its last run of the day.

All in a row...Southern 542 2-8-0, Seaboard Air Line 544 2-10-0, Atlantic Coast Line 1031 4-6-0, and N&W 611 4-8-4, at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer.

Southern Railway’s train 6, the northbound Piedmont, prepares to depart Charlotte, North Carolina, on a gloomy July 3, 1976. A pair of FP7s, SOU 6146 and 6143, were easily able to handle... (more)

Southern 4501 and 630 double-head a photo freight just outside of the Missionary Ridge Tunnel in Chattanooga, TN. This was part of a Lerro Productions photo charter.

Southern Railway train 1st #45 heads across the fill at the Waverly Parkway underpass. 45 & 46 were the long-distance locals that worked from Columbus, GA to Sylacauga, AL.