A Northbound West Point Route freight heads past the depot in downtown Auburn, Alabama lead by A&WP 425 in July of 1952. Photo by J. Parker Lamb.

Atlanta & West Point #280 leaves Auburn, Alabama in October of '52. The A&WP owned two of these Lima-built Pacific's, the #280 and the #290, and while the #280 is long gone, the #290 still survive... (more)

A746 has just made it safely through the North College Street crossing in downtown Auburn. The loveliest village on the plains has certainly c... (more)

As the railroads that would become Family Lines became more closely coordinated, two pairs of run-through trains were initiated in 1973 that utilized the West Point Route (A&WP and WRofA) between ... (more)

The daily NOLA-Cincy run-through train passes the hot box detector just west of Auburn. Never saw another detector like this one. Maybe a diy job by Western Railway of Alabama?

L&N/WofA run-through train has unusual power on this day, with a U25B and GP9 in place of the usual GP38s and U23Bs.

GOAT SD40-2 8151 splits the West Point Route signals at Webster Road.

Seaboard System, Family Lines and Chessie System paint schemes are all present in a typical early-CSX mix.

Doing the job I always heard they were purchased for, high-horsepower GEBBs have train 145 rolling faster than traffic on parallel AL14.

Back when there were still shippers near downtown, the crew of the eastbound local gets some fresh air as they switch a few cars. That old Chevy (GMC?) truck adds a little color to balance the pl... (more)

No longer King of the Road, a former SCL U36B finds itself at the headend of a junk freight with a motley trio of geeps. Mailbox 'gangs' like the one in the photo were once common in many parts o... (more)

Ex-L&N GP38-2 and ex-C&O B30-7 team up on northbound local. In days of yore, Auburn University handled rail deliveries at the small warehouse at left edge of photo, and on a short unloading trestl... (more)

No business this day for Auburn University - last shipper left in the downtown area - so the southbound (westbound in pre-CSX days) local bops past at a good clip.

Local A746 has been getting GEVOs for power lately. These locomotives were ordered without ditch lights on the long hood end, so to allow the train to do more than 30MPH over crossings, temporary ... (more)

Q220 comes through Auburn and passes the former depot that now serves as a restaurant.