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)

An all GE lash up pulls today’s NS 137 across an obvious railroad fill as the train makes the way out of Opelika.

An unusual afternoon running Q611heads through the colorful downtown Opelika storefront area with 68 cars and over 3500 feet of train destined for the capital city of Montgomery.

The crew's day took a bad turn when their GP40 slipped off the rails on the spur into a cotton mill. An Opelika fixture for decades (and location for much of the movie 'Norma Rae', OMC is long-go... (more)

The last pre-Family Lines Georgia Railroad locomotive leads the local down the hill toward the Southern crossing in downtown Opelika.

A switching move didn't turn out as planned and now the local crew has to resort to poling to shove this car clear of the switch and free their locomotive.

This side view of a compromise joint shows exactly what it’s meant to do, join rail of differing sizes. For another view of a compromise joint, more)

NS 336 makes its way through the interlocking with CSX and past the former Central of Georgia/Western Railway of Alabama depot as well as a former more)

Southern serves Woodchips
As the fallen railroad’s logo still holds onto the side of this 1980 built wood chip gondola from Ortner, this class of car represent a rarity for the Sout... (more)

Norfolk Southern GP38-2 #5120, being used as power for the Opelika Switch Engine, was built January 1974 as Southern Railway #5120. Unit has since become equipped for remote control operation

CSX B30-7 #5511, power for the Opelika Work-Extra (local), tied down in the clear after arranging its work and itself for movement to Montgomery's (AL) Chester Yard. #5511 was built May 1980 as S... (more)

A GP38 assigned to Opelika works its local train as a lone SD9 flying green section following flags heads west on the main. By 1972, Southern's six SD9s and lone SD7 (all inherited from C of G) ... (more)