Canadian National owned ex-GTW GP38-2's are set up on remote controls switching the yard at Mobile.

GM&O Alco FA-1 No.733. Most of GM&O's FA's were slightly different than those of all other roads as they had smaller grilles around their lower placed headlight, as well as a curved trim piece ... (more)

GM&O 1900 was built by Ingalls Shipbuilding Co. of Pascagoula, Mississippi, the only locomotive ever built by the company. Designated as a 4-S model B-B 1500hp, spent its life in occasional loc... (more)

Early on a humid morning, the usual deep-south haze combines with fog rising from Mobile Bay to obscure distant objects. In the ex-GM&O yard below Telegraph Road, a crew uses an all ex-IC locomot... (more)

Waiting patiently to highball Sibert Yard on the NO&M sub on a beautiful Gulf Coast afternoon.

After leaving the yard, a CSX manifest passes through the "tunnel" underneath the Mobile, Alabama Convention Center.

Locomotives:
CSX 873 ES44AC
CSX 755 ES44AC
CSX 822 ES44AC
C... (more)

A CSX freight exits the "tunnel" under the Mobile, AL Convention Center.

Locomotives:
CSX 473 AC44CW
CSX 918 ES44AC
CSX 5414 ES40DC
CSX 8557 SD50-2
CSX 5349 ES40DC

CSX 5300 pulls its consist pass the old Amtrak Station platform, and through the Mobile Alabama Convention Center tunnel.

BN's takeover of Frisco is a few months old, but the engine facility at the former SL-SF yard in Mobile is - save for one green GP35 back in the pack - still full of red and white diesels. It wo... (more)

A unit train heads for the coal terminal on McD Island with typical L&N coal power for south Alabama in the early '80s - a trio of GP38s with a recently rebuilt U28B (or U30B) helping out.

A solo SD70ACe, which is still relatively new, switches cars around in the Monile Yard for an outbound train. This was my first trip to Alabama, and certainly won't be my last. I enjoyed the rail ... (more)

Delivered to N&W in 1971, this unit kept the number 4146 until rebuilt to a 5500-series GP38-2 at Juniata in 2002. Here, it awaits the call to duty near the east end of the GM&O station. When th... (more)

Carfloat service between Frisco's (former Alabama, Tennessee and Northern) yard and a tank farm across the Mobile River on Blakeley Island started in the 1930s and lasted into the BNSF era. This ... (more)

A GP38-2 leads a member of L&N's small group of GP40-2s (delivered in FL paint) and a GP30 on a southbound train passing the old L&N downtown station. A crane and tug give a little 'seaport' feel... (more)

A very recent patch job working the Gulf Coast at one of my favorite southern locations, not too busy and lots of roads showed up here.