The daily NOLA-Cincy run-through train passes the hot box detector just west of Auburn. Never saw another detector like this one. Maybe a diy job by Western Railway of Alabama?

One of L&N's earliest GP30s has a new paint job. This simplified scheme was one of several variations on L&N gray. It wasn't quite stealth, but with the gray nose (in place of yellow) and yellow... (more)

A switch crew has a caboose and two extremely beaten-up gondolas in tow.

Couple of unusual things in this roster shot... 6015 is coupled to the two SD28s, and it has 'Illinois Central' on the long hood, but ICG emblem on the freshly-repainted nose.

During its last weeks of operation, the Ozark turn trundles through the rural emptiness of Barbour County Alabama with just five cars.

Two SKOL trains get up close and personal as former UP/MP and NS SDs lead trains on former Frisco and Santa Fe rails.

Black and white geeps and dead winter vegetation provide little color to the scene as a healthy long-distance local pulls in to work Opelika.

C&LC 105 was delivered to Union Pacific in February 1953.

The Milwaukee turn gets out of the way as CRandIC job passes. Milw 552 was built as an SD7, then rebuilt to SD10 following wreck in 1970s.

A Mobile-bound L&N freight slides past the Floridian (powered by a B&O E8A) making its station stop at Montgomery. The freight won't delay the passengers, as just a few hundred yards out of the s... (more)

My one visit to Bangor and Aroostook, and the weather is grungy both days. Worse, the paper mills are on strike so BAR is almost completely shut-down. At least there are ancient Fs and BL2s at O... (more)

Two of A-OK's ex-Santa Fe GP30u diesels powered a short train of gondolas from the KCS interchange at Howe to a wood-processing customer west of Wister. That work finished, the locos are in the l... (more)

The daily L&N/West Point Route Cincy-NOLA train rolls through a cut in the Georgia red clay.

GE U18B in SCL colors sits with FL GP16 and SBD GP40. This power has already made a round trip to Columbus, and will lead an Americus turn later in the evening.

A CC U25C and BB U30B bracket a newer GEBB on a northbound freight at North Charleston.