Spring rains have flooded the open-air inspection pit, so the pumping begins.

I was on the way to set up for band job, but took a few minutes to run into West End Yard to see what was around. I had almost no cushion for the job, but when I saw this neat power set - two GM&... (more)

Southern had 76 GP35s. Most had AAR Type B trucks, but five purchased for Central of Georgia had Blombergs, as did two units numbered in low 2700s. Here, one of the CofG units is powering the Ro... (more)

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)

Southern went in big for the GP35, eventually owning 76. Five, including 244, were purchased for Central of Georgia, and stood out by having three-digit numbers and Blomberg trucks. The other 71... (more)

A Southern freight - with three GP35s and a single GP30 - gets to Chickasaw just ahead of the shadows. All those AAR Type-Bs make the GP30 with its Blombergs the oddball in this scene. That is B... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s local out of Logan switches the grain elevator at Harrison, Montana, after a trip up the Harrison Branch out of Sappington on September 10, 2011.

On this very special day, HRRC 3600 was hitched to caboose 654 in the rail yard. While I had come down to chase the NX13 job I noticed the caboose and GP35...and later found out that a dear frien... (more)

A couple of EL GP35 locomotives idle at the Huntington, IN yard office. John E. Troxler collection, Photographer unknown. Original Ektachrome slide.

Maybe 9,500hp worth of GP30s and 35s is not the ideal set-up for unit coal service, but it worked for many years for Southern.

The fall colors are subdued on a gray November day in Alabama. GM&O 635 is in familiar territory, but trailing are three ex-IC Paducah rebuilds that still feel like invaders to GM&O fans.

On January 30, 1996, after a major snowstorm, Wisconsin Central GP35 No. 4007 and a former Chicago & North Western GP7 are clearing the one-time C&NW/Fox River Valley Railroad line south of Campbe... (more)

This is a pretty good snapshot of much of the countryside of southwest Georgia - gently rolling terrain covered with pine trees and dotted with modest frame houses, and of branchline operations of... (more)

Four red-nosed GP35s bring a grain train - with lots of home road cars - north on the jointly-operated (with MoPac) river line. They will cross that river in a couple miles on the huge bridge to ... (more)