The wavy clouds are a pretty portent of severe storms heading for Loachapoka from the Gulf of Mexico.

By the '80s a lot of Milwaukee Road was in grim condition, but there were still bright spots, as illustrated by this shot of SD40-2s sliding around a superelevated curve with a Twin Cities-bound f... (more)

Ex-IC U30B 21 charges west through Tiskilwa on the return leg of a Quad City-Bureau Jct turn.

SCL sits out a slow Fourth of July at the C&WC yard in Spartanburg.

Ex-CRI&P 1137 has traded the midwest for the west coast of the Sunshine State...

So dirty it looks more brown than black, SCL 810 has just brought a few cars off the Croghan branch on a gray January day. After coupling to the B23-7 in the background, the crew will reassemble t... (more)

NOUPT was a holdover from pre-Amtrak days when multiple passenger carriers would share ownership of a terminal road in important cities.

On temporary lease, Arkansas Midland 722 leads a train west toward Danville on Little Rock & Western's former CRI&P line.

After waiting north of the signal, Hamlet-New Orleans Train 215 has the OK to start moving again. The crew will ease down the hill through downtown Opelika, cross the Southern, then take the sidin... (more)

A few miles south of Bennett Yard in North Charleston, a northbound freight flies across Main Road behind a GP40 and two C-C U-boats, including an ex-Clinchfield U36C. This scene today is dominate... (more)

Three trains converge on tiny Woodbury Georgia in this December 1980 scene. In the foreground, a trio of GP40s off a nb SCL freight waits as a trio of GP38-2s off a sb train approach. When they dr... (more)

Three days a week (usually M-W-F) the Walterboro-North Charleston turn would pull into the Johns Island siding on its return leg, and run down the Croghan branch with one or two units to service a... (more)

Bracketing a much newer MP15 in Family Lines paint, a pair of GP7s illustrate striping variations in SCL's scheme.

Working out of Maxwell Yard, a local came into downtown Greenwood via the ex-SAL main (that's the ex-SAL station in the background) then switched to what was either a spur to a textile mill, or pe... (more)