They All Come To The Hudson Line Eventually. Georgia 300 was built by Pullman-Standard in 1930 for service on the "Crescent Limited". It was subsequently purchased by the Georgia... (more)

An Atlanta & West Point road freight from Montgomery, led by Georgia Railroad GP7 #1021, passes the College Park switcher, using Western Railway of Alabama GP40-2 #708, while an Eastern Airlines L... (more)

Passing thru southern Alabama I ran up on a relic from the Georgia Railroad. GP7 1026 was built in 1950 and today is happily preserved at the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth Ga.

The wildflowers provide a brilliant contrast to plainer-than-plain Georgia Railroad GP7 1023. The train is a run-through Cincy-NOLA train that operates on L&N north of Atlanta, and south of Montg... (more)

A Western Railway of Alabama drags a transfer cut out of S&N Yard (combined SCL and L&N) and across Court Street into WRofA's Chester Yard. In a process that will take a few more years to complet... (more)

The long-distance local stops a couple miles short of downtown Opelika to work Lee Timber. Pretty-good-looking train on this day...

As the railroads that would become Family Lines became more closely coordinated, two pairs of run-through trains were initiated in 1973 that utilized the West Point Route (A&WP and WRofA) between ... (more)

Working for closely affiliated company Western Railway of Alabama, Georgia Railroad GP7 1019 switches industry tracks almost in the shadow of downtown.

The Georgia Railroad's Macon Branch, which split off from the Atlanta-Augusta mainline at Camak, had been losing traffic for years, at least until Georgia Power's Plant Harlee Branch came online i... (more)

The grade out of Opelika may be imperceptible to the naked eye but, believe me, it's tough. Four old geeps and a newer GP40 on train 208 are proving that to the doubters. The driver of that Econ... (more)

Arguably the best train-watching spot in Macon was the area behind Terminal Station where the main from Atlanta joined the former CofG lines from eastern Georgia at a spot called Macon Junction. ... (more)

Ah, the good old days, well they were good but some of the paint jobs were rather ratty.

Georgia Railroad GP7 #1031 on the Hulsey Yard service track. #1031 was built October 1952 and later used as a trade-in to EMD for new power

Back when there were still shippers near downtown, the crew of the eastbound local gets some fresh air as they switch a few cars. That old Chevy (GMC?) truck adds a little color to balance the pl... (more)

Georgia Power. This Geep rests at the museum, with the CSX SD45 peeking around from behind. According to the website, it was built in 1950. It apparently served with the Stone Mountain Rou... (more)