SCL NW2 #21 resting at Wilson, NC in the summer of 1970

The Budd-built observation brings up the rear of the SILVER METEOR during a brief stop in Petersburg. The train will soon head south in the night .

The former Seaboard Air Line station is brightly lit on an October night. The station sign shows that the Seaboard listed both city and state.

A big Alco Century series leads two GE units and three EMDs on a long southbound freight. The afternoon sky adds drama to the scene.

An SCL E6A leads an RF&P E8 and another SCL unit on the southbound EVERGLADES . The train is stopped at the former ACL station.

After waiting north of the signal, Hamlet-New Orleans Train 215 has the OK to start moving again. The crew will ease down the hill through downtown Opelika, cross the Southern, then take the sidin... (more)

A few miles south of Bennett Yard in North Charleston, a northbound freight flies across Main Road behind a GP40 and two C-C U-boats, including an ex-Clinchfield U36C. This scene today is dominate... (more)

Three trains converge on tiny Woodbury Georgia in this December 1980 scene. In the foreground, a trio of GP40s off a nb SCL freight waits as a trio of GP38-2s off a sb train approach. When they dr... (more)

SCL Extra 619 North is working just north of Millbrook, NC handled by SDP35 619 still in the split-image paint scheme, followed by SDP35 601, now sporting SCL black and yellow, followed by a GP40 ... (more)

Three days a week (usually M-W-F) the Walterboro-North Charleston turn would pull into the Johns Island siding on its return leg, and run down the Croghan branch with one or two units to service a... (more)

Bracketing a much newer MP15 in Family Lines paint, a pair of GP7s illustrate striping variations in SCL's scheme.

SCL train #570 headed for the Hamlet arrival yard.

Working out of Maxwell Yard, a local came into downtown Greenwood via the ex-SAL main (that's the ex-SAL station in the background) then switched to what was either a spur to a textile mill, or pe... (more)

Photo by Deborah Barber

A trio of SCL GP-7's taken in 1975.