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.

The M-W-F eastbound local is leaving the combined L&N/SCL yard as it begins its trip down the Dothan Sub.

L&N's first GP30 (1000) and first GP35 (1100) team up on a local departing southbound from the combined L&N/SCL yard in Montgomery.

I believe UP 928 was leased by Amtrak, not purchased. At this point, the 23-year-old beauty is looking a little tattered.

One of L&N's earliest GP30s has a new paint job. This simplified scheme was one of several variations on L&N gray. It wasn't quite stealth, but with the gray nose (in place of yellow) and yellow... (more)

A Mobile-bound L&N freight slides past the Floridian (powered by a B&O E8A) making its station stop at Montgomery. The freight won't delay the passengers, as just a few hundred yards out of the s... (more)