CSXT 4062 sits at CSX yard at Montgomery.

CSXT 927 leads a freight train approaching Montgomery.

The RS-1s did everything for GM&O/ICG around Montgomery except power the 'big' road freights. Single Alcos made daily transfers to the other yards in Montgomery, pulling sometimes huge cuts over ... (more)

Two geep-powered freights sit at the north end of the combined L&N/SCL yard. The last crew member is boarding 3014, so it will be first out for Birmingham.

Worn-out, obsolete, unneeded - all words that might accurately describe these old locomotives, as well as their dilapidated surroundings. But L&N is going to give several RS-3s (delivered in 1954... (more)

A switch crew works the yard with twenty-two-year-old GP7 430, delivered in February 1953.

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)

It is just about dusk on a hazy summer day as one of ICG's ex-GM&O RS-1s works the east/south end of the yard. Thankfully, only of a few of the old Alcos were defiled with orange and white paint.

One of IC/ICG's rare GP28s - it's orange paint faded almost to pink - leads the daily train to Artesia, MS out of the yard. My best non-railfan buddy was with me on this trip, and he and the crew... (more)

The beautiful Montgomery Station. Built in 1898 by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, this station is now used as office space, a Montgomery Area Visitor Center, and a restaurant. In 1973 it w... (more)

Second-generation B-Bs from EMD and GE team-up to take a freight south to Mobile.

CSXT 2625 holds down the south end of S&N Yard in Montgomery, Alabama while a road train led by CSXT 131 prepares to depart. Note the unique old warehouse and its track layout in the bottom right ... (more)

In Amtrak's early days, the Floridian was generally short enough to be handled by a single E, like this B&O hand-me-down getting its windshield cleaned. The train would grow for a couple years, t... (more)

Date approximate. Originally ACL Actually looks like the L&N yard.

Train 30 gets underway on its 180-mile trek to Artesia. Paducah rebuilds bookend an ex-IC GP40 and a repainted ex-GM&O GP35.