With two B&O lettering schemes on display, 4253 shares space in the old L&N yard with a U36B in early CSX dress and an MP15 in the short-lived Seaboard scheme.

A pair of Amtrak SDP40F diesels are in charge of train #53, The Floridian, stops at Union Station in Montgomery, Alabama, in October 1974. Montgomery Union Station was built by the Louisvi... (more)

Amtrak is over a year old, but 1446 - which would become Amtrak 202 - still wears its B&O dress. The Floridian would grow to a point where 2 SDP40Fs would be required, but then would be discontin... (more)

Q685 starts the snake like crossover move from track 1 to the Dothan Subdivision as its mostly southbound journey toward Way... (more)

Under the sky of a fast moving front, Q521 gets ready to depart the Montgomery yard as it passes underneath the new signal bridge for the Vera Siding while also bringing along an EMD GP15D in its ... (more)

E8As of B&O and RF&P heritage team with a B-unit still in UP colors to lead the Floridian out of Montgomery's Union Station for points north.

Ex-B&O 1453 waits to lead the northbound Floridian out of Montgomery's Union Station.

A trio of B36-7s pull CSX 145 through the former WofA yard in Montgomery. After a crew change, it'll be off for Mobile and Ne Orleans and a hand-off to SP.

A Mobile-bound freight passes through Montgomery's hot spot at Bell Street tower. The ICG and WofA curve off to the left just in front of 1552, with the SCL in passing the signal in the background... (more)

An Alco switcher (repowered w/567) and slug work S&NA Yard. Construction on a multi-lane overpass just getting underway in the distance will complicate yards ops for the next few months.

Ex-GM&O 706 sits on the turntable at West End Yard with RS-1 1122 on one end, and IC's first GP38 on the other.

The Artesia train eases out of the north end of Montgomery's West End Yard, headed for Tuscaloosa, AL and Artesia, MS behind 706 and a quartet of Paducah rebuilds.

While these mating worms have lasted longer than the parent railroad they represented, their deterioration is a good example of how tough life got on that railroad in the mid-70s.

Released Whenever air is compressed there is always the by-product of water accumulated in a liquid form which must be removed. Thus we have what’s seen here as the Salem 580 drain va... (more)

A pair of Union Pacific visitors power today’s Q282 auto rack train full of Hyundai Sonata and Elantra automobiles built at that manufactures plant just a few miles from here. Tomorrow this tra... (more)