Seaboards' only E9, 3060 is in charge of passenger, mail, and express train No. 3 leaving Raleigh, NC in March 1966.

As Family Lines started to become an operational reality in the early 1970s, both SCL and L&N established run-through trains that used the A&WP/WofA between Atlanta and Montgomery. For the first ... (more)

With 27 units, L&N had by far the biggest U25B fleet in the southeast - really, the only fleet - but by 1975 the old boats were getting used more in big-city transfer service and less in mainline ... (more)

In the rag-tag early days of Amtrak, an ex-B&O E8A and SCL E7A team to take the sb Floridian toward Dothan, Waycross and Florida points. They are about to pass below the u/c I85 bridge over the A... (more)

L&N freight at Birmingham, AL led by GP38-2 #4088 in June 1973. Photograph by Fred M. Springer ... (more)

SLSF was all B-B power into Mobile, and BN pretty much continued that practice for a few years. But by the 1990s and the Santa Fe merger, any sort of power could show up in Mobile. However, even... (more)

The yard was a rather ragtag place in a bad sign of town but we never had any trouble taking pictures.

With brand-new BN numbers, a quartet of SLSF diesels still wear their Frisco paint as they drop down the hill and over Threemile Creek. The red and white won't last long though, as BN will push h... (more)

Mobile was a treasure of southern railroading in these days with Frisco, TASD, Southern, GM&O and L&N all coming to town. The waterfront yard of L&N was busy and crowded with beautiful yellow and... (more)

Power off a just-arrived freight from Birmingham heads under Telegraph Road and toward Southern's open-air Mobile engine facility.

Seaboard Air Line GP7 1700 idles at the diesel shop in Hamlet NC.

The crew's day took a bad turn when their GP40 slipped off the rails on the spur into a cotton mill. An Opelika fixture for decades (and location for much of the movie 'Norma Rae', OMC is long-go... (more)

Original Norfolk Southern Extra 1613 South is doubling out of the yard at Glenwood in preparation for a late afternoon departure. This was a Sunday, and this particular train would set-off severa... (more)