Typical power for this train in the mid-90s, a Cotton Belt GP60 races CSX 145 down the former Western Railway of Alabama toward Montgomery and, eventually, a handoff at NOLA.
A Southern Pacific freight curves into Kirkwood, Missouri on the afternoon of June 12, 1990. On the point is Cotton Belt (SSW) EMD GP60 No. 9672, built in March of 1990.