After getting off I188 earlier, I saw the BNSF transfer heading to CSX Boyles with some interesting power. Decided to swing by Block 2 to get a shot next to the old searchlight still in service
Alabama Southern's "Pulling For The Tide" GP35R shoves a cut of diesel fuel tanks out to Coker Yard, seen passing the freshly repainted GM&O depot in Northport, Ala. The 1927-built depot... (more)
Spring has sprung in West Alabama and even the EMDs are in bloom. A former CITX leads train 112 westward towards Reform.
They offered me a ride but I had to be somewhere. Lousy luck. Unit was leased.
Alabama Southern Railroad's eastbound "Artesia Turn" (ABS 112) crosses the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway into Columbus, Mississippi, beginning its trip back towards Tuscaloosa from the KC... (more)
Watco engines lead an Alabama Southern train westbound to interchange at the KCS Artesia yard seen here crossing the trestle over the Tombigbee river.
Another SP alumnus dolled up in University of Alabama red and white.
Obviously of SP heritage this de’turbo’d GP35R is enjoying a somewhat less hectic life.
A former SP or SSW GP35R redone without a turbo and painted up in University of Alabama colors really looks good.
With a rather short train on the drawbar, Alabama Southern train 112 trundles over the Lubbub Creek trestle in Reform, Ala. before stopping for a recrew. Freshly rebuilt snoot nosed WAMX 4115 is t... (more)
Alabama Southern train 111 is seen tied down in Hackberry Ln in Tuscaloosa, AL.
One of Alabama Southern's "Roll Tide" Geep's rolls by the old GM&O Depot in Northport, AL on a dreary day.
Alabama Southern Train 112 heads east across the Black Warrior River Trestle in Tuscaloosa, AL., with interchange from KCS at Artesia, MS.
Alabama Southern Yard job 111 has just finished dropping off a cut of cars in Northport and is seen here crossing over the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, AL., on their way back to their yard w... (more)
