Trailed by a rusty ex-CS caboose, a local heads out to work what's left of the old SAL on Montgomery's east side. After a crew member resets the smash board, 1220 starts south to work industries... (more)

Damaged in a switching accident, 1122 will get just enough attention to render her fit to be towed to Tuscaloosa where a spot in the deadline awaits

With SDP45 3209 - Photographer Unknown

The U23B was GE's big success story on Southern, with 70 of the model being purchased, followed by 54 B23-7s. Those numbers look slim compared to the hundreds of GP38/AC/-2s on the road, but it w... (more)

A southbound local sits in the siding at Elmore waiting for the northbound Floridian. It's just May, but the late morning heat and humidity and lack of a/c in the geep's cab are combining to cook ... (more)

With the bulk of their eastbound local sitting on the main - its rear end actually blocking the WofA Atlanta-Montgomery mainline - the crew uses their GP9/GP18 duo to pull a cut from the siding to... (more)

White flags in place. a work extra clumps across the Western Railway of Alabama mainline at Opelika on a hazy summer day in Alabama nearly 40 years ago. In the background, a Southern caboose with ... (more)

GM&O SD40s did not visit Alabama much until the ICG merger. After that, they showed up frequently in Birmingham, and once in a while in Mobile, but never on the Montgomery line, which remained B... (more)

After running New Orleans to Montgomery on the L&N, this train will soon be headed for Atlanta via the WofA/A&WP with a new number - 216. It will finish its journey to Hamlet, NC over SCL's former... (more)

In Amtrak's early days, the Floridian was generally short enough to be handled by a single E, like this B&O hand-me-down getting its windshield cleaned. The train would grow for a couple years, t... (more)

The grade out of Opelika may be imperceptible to the naked eye but, believe me, it's tough. Four old geeps and a newer GP40 on train 208 are proving that to the doubters. The driver of that Econ... (more)

It's orange paint faded and weathered, DT&I 988 blends with the brick and rusted metal buildings of the former Western Railway of Alabama backshop area. RSCo used the facility in the early 1970s ... (more)

L&N 863 looks good on this sunny June afternoon, but the days of cab units on the L&N are drawing to a close.

The power for the Artesia train - two former GM&O GP30s and an ex-IC GP9 - has been serviced and is rolling to the west end of the yard. They'll soon back down to their train, hook up, and then he... (more)