A crew member runs ahead to flag a street crossing a few hundred yards north of the Amtrak station. Don't know if this was routine or a temporary response to a faulty crossing gate, but it looks ... (more)

Starting in the late 1980s (as I recall), SP power became very common on trains coming up CSX from New Orleans, but we did not see many GP40P-2s. I watched hundreds of trains through Opelika in t... (more)

Running on the former Western Railway of Alabama, CSX 145 slides around the big curve at Loachapoka as it begins a twelve-mile descent from Piedmont Upland to coastal plain. The leader has been t... (more)

CSX 144 is tucked into the siding as 145 booms past behind the usual B36-7s. Once upon a time Milstead was the location of a junction with the Birmingham and Southeastern Railway which connected ... (more)

It may be slow-moving, but the action in Bone Valley never seems to stop. A double U36B/Mate set is shown here with the zillionth train of phosphate.

Saw this train - and its unusual power - out my office window in downtown Auburn, but could not leave work (and could not have overtaken 145, anyway), so called my wife, who was at our home right ... (more)

Running on rights granted as part of the UP/MP merger, a D&RGW train from Kansas City is westbound on UP's former Missouri Pacific Pueblo line. This traffic would grow substantially in following ... (more)

In the early 1990s, this train ran with a pair of B30-7s perhaps 90-95% of the time, but anything could show up, as on this day when two U18Bs - one all bright, and one all stealthy - were a pleas... (more)

CP diesels lead a southbound oil train past the rear unit of the dpu set on a northbound empty coal train. Both are 4,400hp GEs, but a lot of changes were made between delivery of 5838 in March 2... (more)

The northbound Palmetto was a sure-fire catch every morning on a line that didn't have a lot of daytime freight or passenger traffic other than a couple locals operated out of Bennett Yard. Don't... (more)

A train that originated in S&N yard is just a few hundred yards into its journey down the Dothan Sub as it passes below I-65 on a drizzly summer day. Just a few months earlier, power would have l... (more)

Kudzu isn't just a ground cover, it can really climb. The home-bound leg of the Richland-Columbus turn passes through a wonderland - or nightmare - of kudzu-covered ground and trees between Cusse... (more)

With just a cab in tow, it looks like maybe the local crew is either about to start their work, or has just finished. As a crew member steps down at the pre-fab office, a competitor can be seen o... (more)

A Pooch leads what I guess is a hospital train through the big curve north of Hanahan on a - naturally - hazy, overcast early summer morning.

Back from a run to Croghan, the crew of the Walterboro turn is met by a non-operating type as they near the mainline. If I remember correctly, this train ran W'boro to Bennett Yard (N Charleston)... (more)