They offered me a ride but I had to be somewhere. Lousy luck. Unit was leased.

Battery installation short-line style... Park locomotive on a flat stretch of spur with little built-up roadbed, then grab a rubber-tired tractor with a front-end loader. The Southern Alabama (S... (more)

Norfolk Southern GP38-2 #5056, displaying class signals and working as Extra #5056 West, with a Goshen (AL) bound train on the former Union Springs - Ozark, AL branch. Track in the foreground is ... (more)

Conecuh Valley (COEH) GP38's #3615 and #3616 (built 10/1967 as B&O #3826) on CSX trackage rights (interchange track in the background)

Two 4,400 HP General Electric locomotives pull a hodgepodge of covered hoppers that were unloaded at the Wayne Farms feed mill in Newton, Alabama. The Newton mill is one of the largest in the Uni... (more)

Conecuh Valley Railroad a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming Railroad that services an industrial park in Troy. CSX A723 exchanges with the CVR just south of downtown. It is coming back from the exc... (more)

A loaded grain train ran into unit problems while heading to the new Wayne Farms grain mill in Newton. It is headed to Banks where there is a siding so that the units can be switched around.

Empty unit grain coming from the Wayne Farm's Feed Mill in Troy heading to Banks to run around its train so that the train can head to Montgomery.

A724 switching at Troy picking up empty covered hoppers from the G&W short line that services the industrial park in Troy.

Heading to Montgomery A724 passes through downtown Troy

Loaded unit grain train out of Montgomery going to Valdosta GA. Usually loaded grain trains do not go via the Bow Line just empty ones.

SBD #7052 opens the throttles as it leaves Troy, AL, heading for Brundidge, Ozark, Dothan, and points beyond.

Since late December 2015 CSXT lowered the max speed on the Dothan Sub from 40 mph to 25 mph and only run 2 locals A723 south and A724 north plus rock, pipe and grain trains. Here A724 is coming in... (more)

The 8057 shows off its newest paint scheme, the boxcar logo, as she pulls a mostly loaded Q681 into Troy on a sunny November morning.

Seaboard Coast Line Baldwin VO-1000, EMD repowered, #101 was built August 1942 as Atlantic Coast Line #12. Unit was later repowered with an EMD 567 1200hp diesel.