A three-builder set of locomotives has an empty coal rain really rolling just a few minutes out from the yard at Corbin.

Coal loads behind BNSF power wait on the main while two geeps take a short Pittsburg Dodger into the 8,900' passing track at Dalby.

Fans talked about the CSX 'stealth scheme' when the first very plain, very gray C40-8s arrived around 1990, but L&N had gone stealth years before when in the mid-1970s they stopped painting loco n... (more)

A loaded coal train waits as MofW guys add material to the frog.

L&N 1030 and 1031 aren't much past their tenth birthdays, but they are already mostly relegated to service on secondary trains, like this long-distance local heading south from S&N Yard. On the r... (more)

This is an absolutely typical power set for L&N unit coal trains in the 1970s, with three U30Cs and an SD40-2. The EMD would outlast the C-boats, but 1549 - renumbered 7243 - did make it into Sea... (more)

The three diesels on the Columbus turn come down the middle of Depot Street in the once-bustling SAL town of Richland. The crew is done for the day, but the diesels will power a turn to Bainbridg... (more)

These U36Bs and their Mate are heading a Birmingham-bound freight on the former ACL/AB&C mainline, but that healthy coating of white phosphate dust shows that they are not long-removed from their ... (more)

After running to the power plant via BN's ex-SLSF River Line, an empty Union Electric unit coal train waits for a crew to head back to the MP main at Illmo. In the distance, the southbound BN loc... (more)

The diminutive size of the U18B is evident in this photo, where the diesel is looks hardly any bigger than the waffle-sided boxcars coupled to it.

The fall colors are subdued on a gray November day in Alabama. GM&O 635 is in familiar territory, but trailing are three ex-IC Paducah rebuilds that still feel like invaders to GM&O fans.

The DT&I crew leaves their small yard and heads for the Campbell Soup plant across the Maumee River. That's the N&W they are about to cross. In the background a DT&I reefer sits on the interchan... (more)

On a beautiful spring afternoon, a Fort Smith RR crew services customers on the north side of the city. They are about to work the big Gerber plant, a chore that will include some time inside the ... (more)

This track is UP's McPherson branch. Before the merger with Missouri Pacific, it saw just a six-days-a-week turn to McPherson that usually consisted of a B-B diesel and a handful of cars. As a c... (more)

ICG hung on to the ex-GM&O RS-1s a lot longer than many of us expected, even repainting a few. I was a GM&O fan, but I had to admit the orange and white looked pretty good when first applied. It... (more)