It's orange paint faded and weathered, DT&I 988 blends with the brick and rusted metal buildings of the former Western Railway of Alabama backshop area. RSCo used the facility in the early 1970s ... (more)
RS-1 1269 in new ICG dress teams with two more Alcos still in GM&O colors to take the northbound leg of the daily Union Camp turn off the Alabama River bridge. Geeps are on the way, so the Alcos... (more)
Ex-Reading 661 sits on one of the pit tracks in ICG's pristine West End Yard engine facility. A GP35 still in GM&O black and white occupies the turntable, with a GM&O cab on the sanding track to ... (more)
It's after dusk as a crew comes out of the joint L&N/SCL S&NA Yard in Montgomery to rescue two trains dead on hours at the junction near Bell Street. They have an L&N Mobile Sub local with a pair ... (more)
This paint job even looked good on buttheads.
Tooling down I-65 to the Gulf Coast and work, I always had a quick trip thru Montgomery to look forward to. The sun seemed to be good most of the time and there was lots of action. I had looked ... (more)
Its black paint almost covered by brownish road grime, SCL 1966 waits in Montgomery for the next call. One of 20 former SAL SDP35s (ACL brought one SDP35 to the merged road), 1966 has been in fre... (more)
The remote control operator or engineer of Y196 checks the points of the switch before he lines himself up for the next move on a busy day in the south end of Montgomery’s former L&N yard.
SCL 1950 waits fro a crew to head up the L&N to Birmingham. Don't know if the white-on-black number boards signified RC unit or ???
At start-up, Amtrak bought Es from railroads all over the USA, and also leased additional units, such as SCL 549.
In a yard usually filled with 4-axle power in the form of GP40-2 models, a GP38-2 is rarity to see. Today though, a hat-trick of the Geep 38 models pose together and take a break from switching ... (more)
Looking a little burned atop the “S” on the long hood, a pair of CSX AC4400s in differing paint schemes move into the yard to retrieve their train.
Yard power idles the afternoon away as they await the next call to move trains around the S&NA yard in Montgomery.
A trio of RS-1s - the center unit in ICG orange and white - sits at the primitive engine servicing facility at West End Yard.