With the autumn colors about as good as they get in this region, Q649 races south over the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River. To compare this with how the foliage looked just one week prior... (more)

Three SD40-2s, one each of Southern, N&W, and Conrail heritage, lead NS 389 through the Appalachian foothills of northeast Alabama.

NARM Fall Color Special.

Still in full Carolina Piedmont livery, this unit is now at work for the Georgia Southwestern

Lengthening shadows creep across the valley floor as NS train 170 heads toward Chattanooga behind a Warbonnet and a Dash 9.

The sun dips below the cloud deck just before sunset and illuminates a southbound intermodal train as it hurries across the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River. At Nyota, just a few miles dow... (more)

It's finally beginning to look like autumn in north central Alabama as Q600 crosses over the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River.

On a fine summer afternoon, A85 backs down the river branch to work local industries, attracting some attention from folks visiting Rhodes Ferry Park, which is adjacent to the tracks.

The southbound Crescent races through the west Alabama woods at a location which holds much sentimental value for the photographer. My grandfather used to belong to a hunting club which owned the ... (more)

westbound led by a former Conrail unit heads uphill out of Shawsville

A Scherer coal train crosses the Paint Rock River bridge on an unseasonably hot, humid, and hazy afternoon.

A local comes down the "river branch" with a pair of high hoods while new riverfront construction looms to the right of the train. Also in the background is the Captain William J. Hudson "Steamboa... (more)

The former TFM 1614, recently relettered and renumbered into the KCS system, leads 367 past a barn in the countryside as it approaches Fort Payne.