With the crew of A920 running the show, this mixed freight train lead by a repainted Dash 8 is about to split the signals at the North End of Manchester siding as it slows down for a crew change a... (more)

Seaboard Coast Line C30-7 #7023, U36C #2131 & C30-7 #7091 lead SCL train #333's Extra around the "New Way" to the junction of the Lineville and Manchester Subdivisions just north of the Manchester... (more)

C30-7 #7040, leading a GP16, another C30-7 and an SD45, pull Birmingham, AL to Waycross, GA train #307 up to the yard office for a crew change. The dimensional loads on the head-end reqiured the ... (more)

The speed restriction on the curve, combined with the grade, results in the use of very high throttle positions for trains southbound at this location. There will be a stop in 400 feet for a crew... (more)

Seaboard System U30C #1482 & U25C's 1521 and 1522 lead a loaded Florida bound coal train up to the Yard Office for a crew change. #1482 was built July 1972 and delivered as Louisville & Nashville... (more)

the southbound Kentucky Derby deadhead train eases thru the 10mph curve into Manchester, bringing the Kentucky rain along with it

TRRA units 1512, 1517, 1513, 1501, 1502, 1515, and 1507 were moved from St Louis to Waycross in a dedicated train (X98220), in hopes of avoiding a situation like the derailment of the first batch ... (more)

Frisco interchange train received at East Thomas Yard in Birmingham is southbound on the Fitzgerald Subdivision having just left Manchester Yard and a crew change.

Frisco interchange train received at East Thomas Yard in Birmingham is southbound on the Lineville Subdivision approaching Manchester Yard and a crew change

Nine year old SCL U36B #1780 would later become CSX 5732

Leading an interchange train received from Illinois Central Gulf at East Thomas Yard in Birmingham is SCL U36B # 1799. The train is destined for Waycross, GA to be further classified at Rice Yard

The backbone of the Coast Line road freight power fleet were the General Electric U36B's. SCL 1799, built July 1971, later became CSX 5751

12 year old SCL 1822 is leading train #335, the ICG connection train from East Thomas Yard in Birmingham, south to Waycross. A new crew has just relieved the Lineville Subdivision crew and is awa... (more)

Arriving at Manchester Yard with inbound Wadley (AL) turn, a Lineville Subdivision train operated as a Monday thru Saturday assignment with assigned numbers 588 (north) and 587 (south). Train nor... (more)

SCL train #308 heads into the south end of the south siding at Manchester Yard as Birmingham originated # 307 holds the main. The counterparts run between former L&N Birmingham Boyles Yard and Ri... (more)