The Central Railroad of New Jersey heritage unit adds some color to an otherwise black night as it leads freight train 187 out of Opelika one mid December evening across one very stout looking con... (more)

Q611 rounds the corner into Opelika with three AC units pulling 168 cars south. Today would be a red-letter week in the history of this line as this train would be one of the first to travel over... (more)

The late afternoon light finds BNSF 8442 pulling one of the numerous Plant Scherer train sets as it heads west for another load of black diamonds for the famous Georgia Power plant. The CofG line... (more)

The N&W Heritage Unit comes through Opelika as my foreground clutter of a boyfriend Frank Orona photobombs my shot at the last second. ;)

EMD touted the GP50 as a do-anything locomotive, but in actual service it seemed more runner than dragger. The model did not live up to the manufacturer's hype and proved unpopular on many roads,... (more)

Only 16 cars make up A746 as it heads to its last customer of the day. If something looks odd here, it's the lack of rear ditch lights on the loco which consequently requires the train to slow to... (more)

A pair of YN2 painted AC4400 models bring a Q220 auto rack train into Opelika as seen from the 6th Street Bridge. The short 4300 foot train is only made up of 45 auto racks this morning as it hea... (more)

For a moment as this westbound came through the interlocking, I thought I was capturing one of the rare loaded rock trains that happen to originate from one of the two quarries in Columbus. But as... (more)

A short timer Q611 hustles through Opelika with 6500 feet of train as it passes the iconic coal tower from the steam days of railroading. The yellow diamond on the right is a CSX speed limit sign... (more)

After a meet with NS 187 in Opelika, NS 198 heads east toward Columbus on a beautiful Saturday afternoon.

Q606 rolls into the city of Opelika under the cover of darkness lead by a rather clean looking YN2 painted AC4400. Tonight’s Q606 measures in at over 7600 foot long train and is comprised of 12... (more)

The afternoon running A746 crosses the interlocking with NS as it pulls into Opelika with 11 cars. The train will soon back into one of the spur tracks here so as to get out of the way for a sout... (more)

A746 in its typical southbound orientation of long hood forward rolls into Opelika on a sunny October afternoon. Cars from the customers of Norbord and Knauf make up a majority of today’s 17 car... (more)

Just a little over a year from their rolling date, a pair of 115# strings of rail from the ArcelorMital rail mill in Steelton, PA have been installed along the former Western Railway of Alabama li... (more)

A non-horse head Dash 9 leads still looks pretty good for being over 20 years old as it an a DC to AC conversion locomotive pull aggregate train 96Z through Opelika. This empty Herzog ballast tra... (more)