While preparing to move NCTM's Southern GP30 from a roundhouse track to the turntable, the engineer starts up the EMD, shooting a could of smoke into the sky. Far above is a crescent moon, which i... (more)

SOU 630, with its manifest in the background, idles along the mainline at the NS Bristol Yard, just prior to re-coaling. Minutes before, it unloaded several 21st Century Steam Excursion passenger... (more)

Southern 4501 highballs Columbia for the NRHS Convention in Charleston. The old Union Station, now a restaurant, is seen in the distance. The wye tracks the train is riding over have been pulled... (more)

As Southern 4501 gets coaled out of view left, Alco S2 #2229 pulls away from the scene. The activity happens near the old Union Station, adjacent to the University of South Carolina campus.

The sun is below the horizon as a trio of SDs roar through Goodwater, the low light causing a Kodachrome 'blow-out' of 3230's headlight. An SD24 and an SD35 trail the Dash-2.

SOU 4501 takes coal while stopped in front of the old Union Station. The train is enroute to the 1970 NRHS Convention in Charleston. Today this building is a California Dreaming restaurant, situ... (more)

This one I guess is worth saving from my very much shorter days when I was around 4' tall. I learned to shoot with a old Pentax manual brick which this was taken with, I remember my dad always tel... (more)

Southern Railway EMD FP7 #6133 pulling the on site train ride at the North Carolina Transportation Museum.

The Carolina Special power, Southern 722 & 4501, has been serviced for the return trip to Charleston as part of the 1970 NRHS Convention. The crew has a quick conference before returning to their... (more)

Another chase shot is made of the doubleheaded Carolina Special, led by Southern steam engines 722 & 4501, running a Charleston-Savannah excursion via the SCL mainline. The train is about to duc... (more)

Doubleheaded with 4501, the Southern 722 powers the southbound leg of the Carolina Special over the SCL approaching Green Pond. The train will turn at Savannah and return to Charleston, site of t... (more)

In one of the few times I ever saw this engine runnng with a clear stack the train is westbound on a beautiful spring day with a great great excursion. These is such a fine class of locomotives a... (more)

Marker-light equipped Southern EMD SW-7 switcher 6859 was assigned the passenger station at Knoxville, Tenn. when this image was snapped on June 28, 1957. The church tower clock says 2:28; the h... (more)

Five-year old Southern GP7 2196 has returned to Knoxville, Tenn. yard after servicing its customers on June 28, 1957. What is right of the nose-mounted bell — a siren?

Photographer- Unknown at this time- possibly R. Hartman. Original 35mm Kodachrome slide Purchased from R. Palmer. Here we find the last Southern Rwy Ps-4 sans tender in Alexandria, VA after ... (more)