Wood products are stil in the traffic mix on a lot of Alabama railroads, but on many lines the amount and importance of such traffic has diminished greatly in the last few years. In this shot made... (more)

An empty coal train behind a single GECC - usual practice at the time - sits in the passing track as Opelika. What you cannot tell from the photo, is that five-year-old 7521 is dead as a doornail... (more)

A GP38-2 teams with an SD50 on the westbound long-distance local.

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.

Following the trend set forth by other Class I Railroads, CSX has also decided to create special paint schemes to be applied onto some of its locomotives. While NS initially came up with a paint ... (more)

It’s been a long night for this NS re-rail crew as they’ve had to move a loaded tank car and locomotive back onto the track after the two rolled a rail in downtown Opelika earlier in the day. ... (more)

Newly cut in Safetran Vader hood signals stand tall at the now dispatcher control point of South End Opelika Siding while they display their most commonly seen signal indication here. That of cou... (more)

A fiery sky envelops most of the view in Opelika this afternoon as it silhouettes the newly installed PTC antenna and Safetran signals at the CSX-NS interlocking. Soon A746 will knock down this c... (more)

Empty covered hoppers of CSX and their fallen flag legacy come into the Historic Downtown District of Opelika one sunny morning. A Gevo leads the way but a surprising EMD SD50-2 is lurking behind... (more)

When key components on freight cars fail and the subsequent repairs can’t be made at the location said car is set out, then you got to improvise a temporary solution to get the car running again... (more)

The moon begins to rise over the Southern Railway caboose X427 as it rests in its new location of Stern Park near the Historic Downtown Opelika area. Over the summer of 2018, this caboose was mov... (more)

The Pennsy heritage unit leads a 5 locomotive consist through Opelika as it pulls freight train 137 below I-85.

That dark, wet section of long hood indicates all is not well with 3819. In fact, it has been shut down since near Leeds, leaving the trailing B36-7 and B30-7 to struggle over the hilly former Ce... (more)

The N&W heritage unit makes a surprise visit onto the Central of Georgia District in Opelika. The famous engine puts in quite a workout as it pulls 166 cars that make up today’s 9100 foot long ... (more)

Holding onto what little grab irons there are on a Difco dump gondola, the conductor of A746 keeps a 3 point stance as he rides the shove maneuver to place these gons or riprap into the Opelika si... (more)