During my first few years railfanning - mostly in AL and GA - I don't think I ever saw a GP20 other than an occasional visit by SP/SSW GP20s on run-through freights via L&N. Work took me to Misso... (more)

Visiting BN power takes an empty unit coal train north on the joint MP/SSW river line.

Typical power for this train in the mid-90s, a Cotton Belt GP60 races CSX 145 down the former Western Railway of Alabama toward Montgomery and, eventually, a handoff at NOLA.

A switch crew heads out to work the industrial park out on Hayneville Road.

Back in the 1970s SCL still operated a branch from the ex-ACL main at John's Island to Croghan, a tiny yard with a couple customers directly across the Ashley River from downtown Charleston. It w... (more)

Back in the 1970s SCL still operated a branch from the ex-ACL main at John's Island to Croghan, a tiny yard with a couple customers directly across the Ashley River from downtown Charleston. It w... (more)

Ex-SCL E8A gets a little attention in Birmingham.

612 leads two other SDP40Fs with the nb Floridian. The train was due in Montgomer in mid-morning and was - in my experience - rarely late.

The sb Floridian is making its station stop in Montgomery. As I recall, the train was due around 'dinner time', but was often 2-3 hours late. That meant that - except in the long days of summer ... (more)

Coal loads head south on the main while the nb Pittsburg Dodger sits in the 8,900' passing track behind a nb empty grain train. You can see the Dodger's crew and a bit of the red of their GP.

NS power has led a UP freight up the former MP from Pine Bluff and is about to enter former CRI&P Biddle Yard.

A-OK still connects with KCS at Howe, but their former CRI&P line used to be part of a through route between southeastern connections at Memphis and the SP at Tucumcari.

Two GP40s and two first generation geeps are cresting the hill just east/north of Opelika. From this point forward they will mostly be dropping as they head for the Chattahoochee River at West Po... (more)

In the early days of Amtrak, the Floridian was short enough to be handled y a single E-unit. On this day, power is leased B&O 1446. The train will grow for a couple years, but then succumb to se... (more)

I have lived right beside mainline railroads a couple times, and it was great. But think about having your own private grade crossing, and then decorating it with a big Ponderosa-style entryway. ... (more)