D&R 18 was delivered to East St Louis Junction Railroad in October 1948, but it isn't nearly as venerable as the old locomotive shed at North Dardanelle, which - I believe - was demolished in 2019... (more)

The first order of C40-8s came in the so-called 'Stealth' scheme, but this ragged ex-L&N U23B goes the new GEs one better, with pretty much nothing except the road number intruding on its weathere... (more)

Mobile was more generally B-B territory in GM&O and ICG days, but the C-Cs did make their way to the Gulf shores occasionally. On this nice January day 6044 - one of ten ex-CRI&P units acquired af... (more)

SR 3804 leads a line of 10 GE CC's stored at Inman, some with capped stacks and chained doors. It isn't the end of the line, though, as they will return to service for a few more years.

Strings of Terminal Railway cars and a ship create a backdrop for a pair of Paducah rebuilds switching in the former GM&O yard. Just a few years earlier, red Alcos would have performed this job.

A crew gets ready to cut their T-M loose from an SD and go work the yard.

In an afternoon downpour - a common summer event down south - a pair of GP30s pass Union Station's trainshed on their way to Mobile with the long-distance local as an Alco switcher (with a transpl... (more)

On a hazy, gray winter morning, #6 - the Montgomery to West Point turn - rolls through Auburn.

The southbound Floridian was often hours late. Bad track north of Louisville caused most of the delays, but on this day the ailing Es aren't helping matters, so an SCL GE helps out. It's late su... (more)

Worn-out, obsolete, unneeded - all words that might accurately describe these old locomotives, as well as their dilapidated surroundings. But L&N is going to give several RS-3s (delivered in 1954... (more)

Western of Alabama's local train 6 waits at the crossing as an eastbound freight rolls by on Southern's former Central of Georgia Birmingham-Columbus, GA mainline. The crossing was not interlocke... (more)

Another transitional model, the C39-8's boxy form-follows-function look reminded some fans of late model Alcos. That's CSX's former Western Railway of Alabama that 8572 is crossing, and the shado... (more)

The engineer heats up a few brake shoes as he brings the southbound Southern Crescent to a stop in Tuscaloosa.

Battery installation short-line style... Park locomotive on a flat stretch of spur with little built-up roadbed, then grab a rubber-tired tractor with a front-end loader. The Southern Alabama (S... (more)

SCL 874, its ACL heritage showing, has become an issue for a southbound crew headed from Columbia to Savannah on the former SAL main, and so is being shoved into a wood yard spur near Swansea. Th... (more)