Seaboard System Railroad EMD SD40-2 No. 8204 rests with several Soo Line and Canadian Pacific SD40-2s at Soo’s former Milwaukee Road locomotive facility at Bensenville Yard, Illinois, on Septemb... (more)

Shot sometime in the mid eighties, as the unit has an SBD number and the paint scheme hasn't had CSX butchery yet but the slide has no labeling whatsoever, so it may not even be North Carolina. F... (more)

R647 is just south of Oaktown on the former C&EI/L&N Chicago to Atlanta main. Taken with my Pentax K1000, developed and printed while working on other projects for my college class. Working on as... (more)

GE U18B in SCL colors sits with FL GP16 and SBD GP40. This power has already made a round trip to Columbus, and will lead an Americus turn later in the evening.

Regardless of number of axles or horsepower, this is pretty much the face of almost all of the hundreds of GE Dash-7s; a face you have to visit shortlines to see these days.

A pair of B36-7s and a GP40 head up the old L&N toward Montgomery, where their container train will continue to Atlanta via the former West Point Route.

Ex-Seaboard System (originally delivered in May 1963 as L&N 1030) waits for the next workday at Hurtsboro. Before coming to Pine Belt, 3059 worked for Abernathy's Columbia and Silver Creek in Mis... (more)

GOAT SD40-2 8151 splits the West Point Route signals at Webster Road.

The Columbus turn is assembled, and headed east on the former SA&M main. Once clear of the switch, they will back around the wye to get the train headed north, then head for Columbus.

Doing the job I always heard they were purchased for, high-horsepower GEBBs have train 145 rolling faster than traffic on parallel AL14.

A six-unit set of C-Cs running engine light comes down the middle of Cherry Street and across Dooly Street. Citizens have been complaining for years about trains clogging downtown, and relief is ... (more)

The crew running the return leg of the Richand-Columbus turn try to keep the speed high enough to keep the kudzu from grabbing enough axles to stop the train.

The three diesels on the Columbus turn come down the middle of Depot Street in the once-bustling SAL town of Richland. The crew is done for the day, but the diesels will power a turn to Bainbridg... (more)

The diminutive size of the U18B is evident in this photo, where the diesel is looks hardly any bigger than the waffle-sided boxcars coupled to it.

The Columbus turn has made it back to Richland, U18B 308 and its two mates are parked by the station, and the crew members are headed home. My memory is slipping, but I think the power will head ... (more)