ICG has been a fact of life for a couple of years, which is more time than these Alcos have left.

Two ancient L&N U23Bs - still wearing what's left of their L&N paint schemes - sit in the sun at a familiar place, the former L&N/SCL yard in Montgomery.

I was on the way to set up for band job, but took a few minutes to run into West End Yard to see what was around. I had almost no cushion for the job, but when I saw this neat power set - two GM&... (more)

Southern inherited a line from Columbus, GA to Montgomery when they took over Central of Georgia, but the handwriting was on the wall. By the time of this photo, traffic was shrinking as Family L... (more)

L&N GP30 1044, delivered in 1963, was badly damaged in a wreck in 1974. The rebuild resulted in an odd roof profile that combined elements of the original GP30 shape, with the newer Spartan cab s... (more)

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)

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)

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)

A shabby ex-B&O E8A (assisted by a leased SCL E7A) is on the headend of the Floridian during its stop at Montgomery's equally shabby Union Station.

CSX C40-8 7558 leads Q681 by Coosa Street as it departs Montgomery, Alabama in May of 2003. (Slide Scan)

Believed to be Montgomery, slide not labeled.

GM&O came in from the northwest, A bit player on a large stage in those days, a little shabby and run down but what great character. In the immortal words of Tom Sink, a “soulful old road”.

Illinois Central Gulf GP11 #8716 idles at West Yard. #8716 was built August 1956 as New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (NH) GP9 #1229. Unit later became Penn Central (PC) #7549 and later ... (more)

Louisville & Nashville MP15AC #4234 passing thru the interlocking controlled by Bell Tower. #4234 was built 3/1978; later re# SBD 4232; later re# CSX 1139