Georgia Central U23B's #3911 & #1004 ready to meet the torch. It was a sad sight.

Georgia Central intermodal train L784 swings through the small community of Ohoopee on its way to Vidalia to interchange with the Heart of Georgia Railroad.

An ex Southern U23B and ex ATSF GP30 power intermodal train L784 through the small south Georgia town of Meldrim.

Engineer David White gives a wave on train L784 pounding the CSX diamonds at Alabama Junction. Ex Southern Railway U23B #3957 leads with its original P5 horn.

After swapping cars with the road train from Lyons and picking-up from the local in East Dublin, the job toward Macon and the NS interchange slowly heads west across central Georgia.

Photo by Bill Phillips from my slide collection.

The R&N turn to Conrail's Reading yard has just returned to home rails with a long string of empty hoppers. After some more hoppers on the siding are added, 8850 HP of 4-axle U-boats will take th... (more)

Just like the decaying shack on the left, this U23B is in it's last days. The future for this unit is about as gloomy as today's rainy weather. 3911 is in fact rumored to be slated in the next rou... (more)

Railroads are all about paperwork. The Naugatuck Railroad's Northern Lights Limited hasn't even left the yard lead on its deadhead move to Thomaston Station, and the conductor is already filling o... (more)

After running from New Orleans as L&N 414, this run-through train will shortly be on the rails of the West Point Route, where it will operate as train 214 to Atlanta. This was in the early days o... (more)

During a work trip to Warner-Robins AFB, I managed to find a set of Georgia Central locomotives tied down in the yard. Glad I did, most GC UBoats are now off the roster.

L&N runthroughs initiated in the early 1970s brought a little color to the West Point Route. Power was mostly GP38s and U23Bs with other B-Bs mixed in. In this shot, a portion of Auburn Universi... (more)

Photo from the 1980s.

Ex-L&N 2800 takes a weed-spraying train south on the former Western Railway of Alabama. This is very close to the Vulcan Materials quarry opened in 2003.

Seaboard System U23B #2719, U23B #2722, MP15T #1212, B23-7 #5102, GP40's 6724 & 6791, and U36B's 5771 & 5720) lead train 1st #329 southbound out of the yard and up Pine Mountain. #2719 was built ... (more)