A Precision National Leasing SD24, still in Southern paint, leads five other units on a Milwaukee Road train at Bensenville, Illinois. This was during the power shortage after bankruptcy and a m... (more)

Newer, more powerful EMDs and GEs were around by 1985, but I bet this crew was still pretty happy to see that their ride would be a trio of SD40-2s. Here, they are slowing to a stop to allow a tr... (more)

This is a pretty good snapshot of much of the countryside of southwest Georgia - gently rolling terrain covered with pine trees and dotted with modest frame houses, and of branchline operations of... (more)

Three SD40-2s and a GP38-2 swing to the right and off the New Orleans main as they start their trip to north Alabama and then on to Memphis. Just ahead at 27th Street interlocking they will cross... (more)

Southern EMD E8 6910 and an E7A are westbound at Blue Ridge with the TENNESSEAN in my father's photograph. My color slide of this same train passing beneath the bridge is also on this website. The... (more)

A southbound freight - so close to Brosnan Yard the crew can smell it - has to cool its heels in the Arkwright passing track as a northbound intermodal roars by behind three B36-7s - half of South... (more)

All 3 of Southerns GP40X`s lead 144 @ Chattanooga Tn

A matched trio of Southern Railway GP50s hurry a hot shot freight up the Washington Division on a bitterly cold mid-winter morning. The undulating terrain of the Northern Virginia Piedmont is clea... (more)

Southern E8(a)s 6900-6914-6904 depart Peachtree Station in Atlanta, Georgia with Southern #1, the Southern Crescent circa 1970/1971. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo

Kanawha ALCO 2-8-4 #2716 leads its eastbound train past the old depot site. #2716, built for the C&O as one of their 90 "Kanawha" type steam engines, operated from Birmingham to Opelika... (more)

It's the first day of summer 1986 and an eastbound train out of Louisville is lead into the morning sun with a Southern SD40-2 running long hood forward and green flags.

GM locomotives serving the south.

Savanna & Atlanta 4-6-2 750, in the company of a Southern B23-7 and an FP7, is tied down at the Southern servicing facility in Alexandria, Virginia.

Tied down next to Savanna & Atlanta 4-6-2 750, which is in town for some excursions, Southern B23-7 3928 spends the evening at the servicing facility in Alexandria, Virginia.