That lead SD40-2 may be 'foreign', but it is a much more common sight in these parts than the home road unit behind it - one of CSX's much-loved BQ23-7s.

This Hamlet-NOLA train ran with SP power for years - mostly high-hp B-Bs - but by 1999, UP diesels were showing up more and more.

On a sunny summer afternoon, 615's power is entering the big curve at Notasulga. It's 1998, but you wouldn't guess it from the locomotives, which include five conventional cabs (four of them EMDs... (more)

SP/UP power was common on 615 at the time of this photo, but an SD45T-2 - even as ragged as this one - had become something of a prize catch.

The wavy clouds are a pretty portent of severe storms heading for Loachapoka from the Gulf of Mexico.