I am guessing the crew members on this southbound were just fine having ten-year-old 1735 in the lead on a hazy November morning 40 years ago. That BQ23-7 might have been brand-new, but dislike o... (more)
The crew running the return leg of the Richand-Columbus turn try to keep the speed high enough to keep the kudzu from grabbing enough axles to stop the train.
U36B 1748 and a pair of SD45s have a Birmingham-bound freight really rolling as they lean into the superelevation right in front of the Warm Springs depot.
Geeps bring the Chicago-Kansas City train out of Springfield on a cold, gray day. This track and the parallel ex-Wabash main were reconfigured/rerouted in the 1990s to reduce auto/train conflicts... (more)