SCL In its latter days took a bunch of incredibly ratty old GP7s and 9s, chopped the nose and cleaned them up a little and turned out a model that became almost as iconic on shortlines as the ATSF... (more)

SLSF has been part of BN for 7 months, but it's business as usual on the south end of the railroad, as five GP38s - all still in Frisco colors and numbers - are a few hundred feet into their journ... (more)

A southbound single stack container train is crossing the drawbridge which appears to be getting some work. I had only recently discovered the great variety available in the area.

The BN paint job was beginning to take on some character just before the merger. The headlight installation puts me off a little but after talking to crews I am convinced that it is much better i... (more)

With 27 units, L&N had by far the biggest U25B fleet in the southeast - really, the only fleet - but by 1975 the old boats were getting used more in big-city transfer service and less in mainline ... (more)

Somehow the gray was a little off and the sun was low in the sky as this unit headed down the gulf coast.

Simple but relatively clean.

SLSF was all B-B power into Mobile, and BN pretty much continued that practice for a few years. But by the 1990s and the Santa Fe merger, any sort of power could show up in Mobile. However, even... (more)

With brand-new BN numbers, a quartet of SLSF diesels still wear their Frisco paint as they drop down the hill and over Threemile Creek. The red and white won't last long though, as BN will push h... (more)

Mobile was a treasure of southern railroading in these days with Frisco, TASD, Southern, GM&O and L&N all coming to town. The waterfront yard of L&N was busy and crowded with beautiful yellow and... (more)

Power off a just-arrived freight from Birmingham heads under Telegraph Road and toward Southern's open-air Mobile engine facility.

By this date the railroad is actually CSX and this former L&N will get the new garb soon enough.

Frisco GP7 #558 working at Mobile, AL || August 1972

A shot taken from the Telegraph Road viaduct shows L&N 5004 working the south end of Sibert Yard. In the foreground are shop tracks in ICG's former GM&O yard. Strings of yellow Terminal Railway ... (more)

SR 5096 shoves a cut of cars around the curving interchange track leading to the Terminal Railway yard while ICG Paducah rebuild 8701 waits for the crossing to clear. A mix-up a couple hours late... (more)