With a clear signal in their midst at the 13th street interlocking, this pair to GE standard cab Dash 8 models finally start to throttle up after staring at the sun while waiting for a west bound ... (more)

This Eagle is still Screaming 30 years after the UP take over.

Union Pacific's "Southern Pacific" heritage unit leads its first transcontinental stack train from Los Angeles to Atlanta, along the Norfolk Southern main through Alabama. After a crew change in ... (more)

The other BNSF transfer, the one that goes to CSX, splits the signals after having crossed the NS NA/West End District as it returns from Boyles yard running as lite engines. The track seen veeri... (more)

After successfully working the north yard on NS, the always photographically friendly painted BNSF to NS transfer heads back onto its own rails and is only a few minutes from East Thomas where it ... (more)

With their work complete at Biffco Industries, a pair of buttheads head back to Boyles as lite power on a clear November morning.

After letting AB62 pass it on track 2 moments earlier, the second run of today’s NS Employee Steam Special begins the trek ... (more)

L&N 863 was very close to the end as she waited at the e.f. in Boyles Yard. I caught her on a Nashville freight a few days later and, though I didn't know it at the time, would never see another L... (more)

Southern still serves the South

One of the recent acquisitions from GE complete with 3000 series road number and boxcar logo pull today’s Q220 full of Sorento, Optima and Hyundai Santa Fe cars into the Magic City as the train is... (more)

Who needs a caboose? This train certainly doesn’t as the first run of today’s NS Employee Steam Special is near its completion and splits the signals of 32nd Street which are seen displayi... (more)

The clouds have finally parted enough to allow for the iconic Birmingham shot as the NS Employee Steam Special and its star the 630 prepare to back up to the 2nd avenue drop off for the last run o... (more)

Ready to go home! TVRM #630 waits for a signal to travel onto the NS Alabama Division's ex-AGS main. The train had been in Birmingham for several weeks offering NS Employee Appreciation trips as... (more)

Steam in the city, part 2