With fog from Mobile Bay, the usual Deep South summer haze, and emissions from huge nearby paper mills, it can (or could back then) be tough to get even slight color in the sky. This day was shap... (more)
On the Santa Barbara Subdivision, a Herzog RUM, ( Rail Unloading Machine ), is on the rear of a northbound Rail Train ready to unload new replacement Ribbon Rail.
Cass Night Watch. A lone Shay locomotive stands by for late light switching duty on the platform at the old C&O Depot in Cass, WV. Mower Shay #4 is the duty locomotive this evening, and th... (more)
Cass Depot, ca 1948. With the day's operations shut down several hours ago and the locomotive fires banked, a couple of Mower Lumber Co. night hostlers chat on the empty platform of the old... (more)
A six-unit set of C-Cs running engine light comes down the middle of Cherry Street and across Dooly Street. Citizens have been complaining for years about trains clogging downtown, and relief is ... (more)