Fifty two years ago Wilmot Model Railroad Shop in Prattville was a beacon for model railroaders in the deep south. We traveled there as often as possible to buy treasured models and to chit chat ... (more)
From the get go of the merger I wanted to find these for RF&P oddballs because I didn't expect they would last long. Big surprise. They were still around the last time I checked.
One of the few occasions I got out of my technical school to do some railfanning. Here the "Crescent" is on its way to New Orleans back when it went by the multi-road route. Shows how ... (more)
CSXT ACL 1871 leading C248 as they depart Montgomery
CSX latest Heritage units 1853 (NYC) leads M605 through downtown Montgomery heading for New Orleans Louisiana
The first real road switcher looking pretty.
In the latter years a butthead was hard to find (not as hard as an SD38-2!). I was glad to see this over ever near sundown.
What a great tpwn in the times before mergers.
Southbound unit coal. Photo by Calvin Christman (RIP), from my collection.
A Western Railway of Alabama drags a transfer cut out of S&N Yard (combined SCL and L&N) and across Court Street into WRofA's Chester Yard. In a process that will take a few more years to complet... (more)
CSX 911 leads Q60529 south out of Montgomery, AL, passing the train shed of the old L&N Union Station.
Southbound Floridian is close to on-time on a beautiful summer afternoon.
The northbound Floridian is just a few hundred feet short of Union Station. The engineer has just restarted his train after stopping for an SCL employee to drop from the lead SDP. The SCL man is... (more)
New SDP40Fs - a trio, no less - are in stark contrast to shabby, old Union Station and its shed.
A crew uses a steam-powered wrecker to clean-up a minor derailment just off North Court Street.
