This Charleston area local has either mechanical failures, or its crew is dead on hours, so the folks at Bennett Yard have sent a crew with nearly-new 4218 to the rescue.

SAL's Charleston-Hamlet main was relegated to second-class status after the merger, but it was an interesting, photogenic line. The long timber trestle over Goose Creek was one of many on the lin... (more)

Seaboard Air Line 0-6-0 #1103 at Atlanta, GA in May, 1951. Photo (616 negative) by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.

This is the interior of L&N's Shop 17--the running repair facility built for diesels at its South Louisville Shops complex. Two F7As--824 and 811, coupled--are in for traction motor attention. In ... (more)

In 1954, the late David P. Morgan, editor of Trains Magazine, spent a few weeks on the L&N Railroad gathering data for a major story for the magazine. “This is Louisville & Nashville” appeared... (more)

A quartet of SCL EMD power leads a westbound freight at Laruinburg, NC || June 1971

L&N's company photographer posed three brand new SD35s on the escape track under the hump at DeCoursey one evening in 1965 for this scene. The shot was used on the cover of an issue of the L&N Mag... (more)

It's very late in the day as E7A 557 and another roll into Petersburg with the Birmingham-bound SILVER COMET.

SCL C630 2213 heads up an extra south out of Acca Yard in Richmond, Va in October 1967. Initially several ex-ACL locomotives received the SCL "speed lettering" logotype and numbers under the loco... (more)

On a gray Fall afternoon, SCL 179 works the yard as a GP38/U30C/SD40 set waits to power a Birmingham-bound freight.

GP 30 #1321 in background.

With 121, both ex-Alco, repowered EMD.

Seaboard Air Line 2-8-0 No. 929 was the first of four locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1920 for the Charlotte Harbor & Northern. They were numbered 71-74. They had 54" drivers,... (more)

RF&P 250 ton derrick No. 1 was busying itself with clearing an eight car derailment between Greendale and North Acca as southbound Amtrak No. 81, the "Silver Star," passed. Former SCL E8A No. 582... (more)

SCL Bicentennial U36B No. 1776 was leading southbound No. 109 out of Acca Yard in Richmond, VA on Oct. 23, 1973. No. 109 was a hot Potomac Yard-Waycross manifest that operated via the former ACL.... (more)