NS Office Car Special 951 creeps through the city of Birmingham after the "Top Guns" onboard stop for a bite to eat and a fresh crew in Irondale.

L&N train #370, a priority freight from New Orleans, is easing up to the Southern Railway NA line at 27th Street interlocking. 370 crossed the Southern Railway tracks in the foreground (Southern'... (more)

We're at Birmingham's Southern Railway Terminal Station in the early morning. T&P 610 has attracted a crowd that is watching her being serviced. The train will depart for Chattanooga at 7am.

Just after sunrise in Birmingham, T&P 610 is attended to before passenger loading begins for a 7am departure for Chattanooga.

A packed house of trains move along the railroad corridor in Birmingham. From left the right, the DPU of NS 225 pushes hard on its train while Railroad: Union Pacific
Locomotive: GE ES44AC
Location: Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: UP 7913
Train ID: NS 225
Photo Date: August 26, 2010

An AC6000 and AC Gevo are all that's needed to pull this Q650 over the 13th street interlocking with Norfolk Southern. Up front are loaded autoracks possibly from Hyundai in Montgomery, AL or Kia... (more)

A20 has just crossed over the 14th Street interlocking with CSX and just as Southern had a Green Light to Innovation has a green light to Norris Yard on an early August morning.

With NS 219 waiting on the left, S572 follows on the heals of Q572 as it heads toward Boyles yard on a sunny August morning... (more)

Q684 with the one of a kind number font CSXT 7868 locomotive leads this EMD sandwich freight train into downtown Birmingham on a beautiful August morning.

All EMD All the Time! A very classy consist of EMD six axle locomotives brings a nice size mixed freight into downtown Birmingham while passing the 1962 built 17-story high Two North Twent... (more)

This historic bottle car was constructed by Wm. B. Pollock Company of Youngstown, Ohio. It can be viewed at the Sloss Furnances National Historic Landmark in Birmingham, Alabama.

A long 345 with 6 locomotives including a leaser at the rear bring their train through the numerous tracks that separate Birmingham's downtown.

A 70M and 90/43MAC power this mixed freight that has just originated at Norris Yard and is seen heading west on the AGS South District.

From left to right we have an autorack train from the Honda plant in Lincoln, a unit ethanol train, the DPUs for a loaded taconite ore train and finally on the right we have a pair of remote contr... (more)

Passenger Special The BNSF Employee Passenger Special makes its second run out of East Thomas Yard towards Jasper today. The Employee Passenger Special gives employee's and their families... (more)