The northbound lite power move of X786 is seen about to roll south out of the siding at Opelika after a meet with southbound Q619. S... (more)

This year’s Pie Day finds a pumpkin flavored unit sitting in the transfer yard with a full moon overhead. While foreign power pulling run through trains is a very common occurrence in today’s... (more)

Resting on the Opelika siding, A746 waits for a crew which will be arriving in a few minutes to begin its nocturnal operation. Since the CSX MoW has a curfew in effect for their tie replacement, ... (more)

As the CSX tie replacement MoW project gets into full swing, the 8059 is again seen parked along the WofA at night. This nig... (more)

Several years into the CSX era, a Chessie B30-7 teams with another B-boat and two geeps to lead a northbound out of the late afternoon sun and past the old West Point coaling tower and an ex-SCL M... (more)

A scene of a sb freight nearing the NS crossing contains a few archaic elements, like the SCL and L&N work train cars, and the trackside phone box.

A crew member steps across the Southern as local train #5 works the sidings and interchange tracks around the depot.

Red gold
Labeled as calcine or iron oxide, this byproduct from the heydays of smelting at Copperhill, Tennessee has now found new way to get to metal producers overseas; that is by usi... (more)

A pair of iconic looking SD40-2 units running in elephant style round the curving into Opelika as they take their freight train into downtown on a chilly Sunday morning.

GP35 1122 leads a trio of newer GP38s on run-thru train that used A&WP/WofA between Atlanta and Montgomery.

Just after a few minutes after Q619, CSX K535 with a 60 car load of calcine byproduct from the smelting mines of Copperhill, Tennessee b... (more)

Objects Are Closer Than They Appear
A local moron stares down the crew of the oncoming Q619 instead of watching his footing as he tests his luck at getting across the tracks ahead of ... (more)

As Family Lines started to become an operational reality in the early 1970s, both SCL and L&N established run-through trains that used the A&WP/WofA between Atlanta and Montgomery. For the first ... (more)

Two fallen flags schemes can be seen on this one woodchip hopper as it still displays the double "S" Seaboard System paint as well as the patch work that covered up the Family Lines verbiage and l... (more)

Geeps lead an eastbound across the non-interlocked double crossing with the Western of Alabama in glaring afternoon light typical for these parts. The crossing was automated in the late 1970s, an... (more)