Seaboard Coast Line U33B #1736 being hostled to L&N Boyles Yard from East Thomas Yard. #1736 was built October 1968 and later became Seaboard System #5616 and later CSX #5616

Southern Railway GP30#2628, GP35 #2709, GP30 #2560 & GP35 #2711 lead an eastbound train at 32nd Street to Norris Yard. Southern Railway GP30 #2628 was built November 1963 and later became Norfolk... (more)

Dinner in the diner, but where are the passengers? A few months ago, this car would have been full of passengers eating fresh cooked meals. Thanks to Amtrak's "flexible dining" policy, c... (more)

Engineer David Light gives a wave as he nears his destination of Irondale, Al

Engineer David Light gives a wave as he nears his destination of Irondale, Al

A trio of Southern Railway E8As lead the railway’s flagship train, the Southern Crescent, as it makes its way from New Orleans LA to Washington DC. Train 2 is seen at the passenger station... (more)

Rooftop view of EMDX SD70ACe-T4 #7213 at Norris Yard in Irondale (Birmingham), AL.

Back when KCS was using rebuilt GP40s for just about everything except coal/grain unit trains, an ex-CN GP led an intermodal west through downtown Birmingham, assisted by a DM&E (ex-Milwaukee) SD4... (more)

A KCS/NS runthrough heads west through downtown Birmingham behind a pair of GP40-3s bracketing a Norfolk Southern B23-7. Bringing up the rear is an ex-BN/BNSF GP40 that will soon get the Dash-3 r... (more)

The small fleet of second hand locomotives assigned to work American Cast Iron Pipe Company idle away on a hot late September day. To the right an NS crew can be seen shuffling cars around to take... (more)

BNSF 2703 sits at BNSF East Thomas Yard at the absolute most extreme southeastern portion of the BNSF System.

It's the afternoon hours in downtown Birmingham, and CSX Q689-29 (Birmingham,AL-Waycross,GA) has come around the curve, and clear the 24th St Block (MP-391.1 24th St.) on the Boyles Terminal. Runn... (more)

Backdropped by a 'healthy' dose of U.S. Steel air pollution, SD40 1254 models one of the early variants of L&N's gray and yellow scheme, exhibiting slanted yellow numbers and letters outlined in b... (more)