The crew of this local turn - one of several based in North Charleston - is almost back to home base at Bennett Yard, just a few hundred yards ahead.

Regardless of number of axles or horsepower, this is pretty much the face of almost all of the hundreds of GE Dash-7s; a face you have to visit shortlines to see these days.

A honey-hole of sunlight hits L&N 4124 at just the right moment - the exact opposite of what usually happens to me on partly cloudy days.

The daily run-through freight - delivered to L&N in New Orleans by Southern Pacific - has a quartet of that road's geeps behind a home-road GP38-2. They are just about to depart for Birmingham an... (more)

The daily freight to Tuscaloosa and Artesia approaches the yard limits behind GP38-2 9613 (bought new by the merged company), assisted by an ex-IC GP40 and an ex-GM&O GP30. That GP38-2 - built in... (more)

For the last few years, CSX has not been able to decide what to do with the line from Montgomery down through Dothan and Thomasville to Waycross. They don't seem to want it, but can't seem to let... (more)

A unit train of coal from western Kentucky rolls past the tower at Amqui. On the other side of the building is the Louisville line, which is still referred to as 'the main', though it has been ec... (more)

Frequent problems restarting Atlanta-bound trains after the required stop at the Southern crossing in Opelika led to the practice shown in this photo. Crews stopped their trains on the downgrade ... (more)

Back in the days just before Family Lines became a thing, this run-through train originated in Cincy, running down the L&N to Atlanta, then utilizing the A&WP/WRofA to reach Montgomery. Here, the... (more)

Quite a bit of unexpected diesel variety leads a northbound CSX freight, with a U36B/GE Mate in SBD paint up front, followed by a CSX GP40/slug set, a Chessie System GP38, and a Family Lines Uceta... (more)

The usual high-horsepower SP/SSW four-axle power leads CSX intermodal train 144 as it passes Roanoke Junction. The diverging line originally went to Roanoke, but by the time of the photo had been... (more)

Built for San Francisco commuter service, 7602 was one of just three GP40P-2s constructed by EMD. In 1994 the rare diesel was at the head of a northbound CSX freight, coupled to slightly less rar... (more)

An SD70MAC leads a mixed freight south past a new customer at McElhany - a pole transloading business. Built in November 1999, the 'antique' SD70MAC is a bit of a catch these days on KCS.

Two ex-GM&O GP30s and an ex-IC GP9 clash a little less than some of the color combinations possible in the early days after the ICG merger. They are teamed up on train 30, and headed for Tuscaloo... (more)

A 'big' SCL freight heads south through rural Georgia behind a trio of U36Bs. At the time of the photo, Southern still operated a branch through Woodbury, but it is long gone.