UP 1027 races its own shadow as it accelerates out of town with the southbound local.

L&N U30Cs are at the head of a loaded Harlee Branch coal train on the connection from the mainline, but they wait as the mixed train to Macon departs first. Couple maybe interesting sidenotes: T... (more)

L&N SD40-2s head for coal country with a train of empties returning from Florida.

On a gray winter day - back when most everything in Georgia south of Atlanta was SCL or Southern - a southbound freight departed Albany. The big roads are mostly gone from this territory today, h... (more)

The 6,000 horsepower GEs were not exactly a smash, but 642 looks like a star racing intermodal down the hill at Loachapoka. This is the former Western Railway of Alabama, a road that never had a ... (more)

The first order of C40-8s came in the so-called 'Stealth' scheme, but this ragged ex-L&N U23B goes the new GEs one better, with pretty much nothing except the road number intruding on its weathere... (more)

A Gulf-bound grain train is about to hit the bottom of the tough grade up to McElhany.

This D&R train has just about reached top of the grade at Oakland Heights, as it passes behind the elementary school of the same name just after the end of the school day.

The engineer of D&R's 'regular' train has his SW1 and covered hoppers in the scale house track to allow passage of a pair of BNSF veterans towing a string of empty hoppers. Over the next few days... (more)

The Georgia Railroad mixed train from Macon rolls past a loaded coal train waiting for a crew. The coal - powered by a three-builder U30C/C628/SD40 set - is destined for Georgia Power's Plant Harl... (more)

The engineer bumps the throttle as his B30-7s clear the NS crossing, causing a small cloud of exhaust to float back over the train on an otherwise crisp January afternoon.

Purchase of CMStP&P by Soo is a few months old, and everybody is getting into the act on the rear of a southbound headed for KC, with a single Milwaukee cab, a run-through MKT cab, and a gaggle of... (more)

The engineer on the northbound dodger waits for a signal from his man on the ground.

The nb Palmetto is clearing SCL's Bennett Yard and crossing Southern's line into downtown Charleston and the port area. That's I-26 above. Just ahead is SY tower and the North Charleston statio... (more)

Back in early 'Speedway' days, a local fan watches as an eastbound train - its last few cars still on the Mississippi River bridge in the background - enters the yard at Vicksburg behind a typical... (more)