Fifty two years ago Wilmot Model Railroad Shop in Prattville was a beacon for model railroaders in the deep south. We traveled there as often as possible to buy treasured models and to chit chat ... (more)

Had to be in the panhandle on business and got to get out a little. Caught this westbound with a former MP unit.

On short term lease these units made things interesting in the nineties and I missed most of them but got lucky on this date. I might have caught him in the street in La Grange had gotten out a b... (more)

Battered but not beaten this former L&N veteran sits proudly in the winter sunlight. Photo by Craig Hatter. From my collection.

Stressed out and in need of rest I took a sentimental journey to my old haunts in the spring thirty one years ago. In Cordele I found this Electric Fuels unit coal train headed for Florida. Ver... (more)

848 leads SD75M 232 and Dash 9-44CW 687 climbing the grade towards Bealville.

National Locomotive's rebuilt former Norfolk & Western RS36 #1800 sits at the shops that NALCO shared with the Morristown & Erie Railroad. This was to be the first in a group of RS11 and RS36 rebu... (more)

A loaded coal train passes empties at the summit. Trailing units are an Oakway SD60 and two SD40-2s, EMDX 6305 and EMDX 6047.

Eastbound manifest. Trailing units are SDF40-2 5252 and SD45-2 5823.

OIEN (Oak Island-Enola).

Looking pretty good after a few years, a small relief from "stealth" is on the point of a southbound train.

A manifest comes into West Colton Yard off the Palmdale Cutoff. Power are a pair of SD40T-2s (SP and DRGW) bookending a MK SD40M-2 rebuild. Oct 25 1995.

An intermodal train for the Harbor serpentines its way towards West Colton Yard under the leadership of a rebuilt GP40, a Cotton Belt GP60, and a grime coated SD45T-2. Image taken from Pepper Aven... (more)

Coal empties leave the yard bound for the Powder River Basin. Trailing units are SD40-2 7268, SF30C 9546, C30-7 5068 and SD402P KCS 616.

The hostlers pull an outbound train forward after putting the head end power on (as seen from Pepper Ave, over West Colton Yard). They will then hop on the helper unit and take up to the other end... (more)