Southern Ms class 2-8-2 4501 is running fast just north of Rome, GA with an excursion. There's a Southern EMD FP7 ahead of the dome car to assist the 2-8-2.

Former Canadian Pacific H1c 4-6-4 2839 departs Atlanta with an excursion to Chattanooga, TN. An EMD FP7 is behind the auxiliary water tender for assistance.

Southern GP38-2 5111 and GP38AC 2857 are eastbound and wait while a steam excursion led by CP 4-6-4 2839 loads in the station.

Former Canadian Pacific H1c Royal Hudson 2839 is ready to leave Atlanta with a Southern railway excursion yo Chattanooga, TN.

THE SEMINOLE arrives in Effingham on a cold morning behind a GofG E8 and two IC E9A units. It is crossing the Pennsylvania Railroad's Panhandle Line here and the Pennsy's position light signals ca... (more)

An Alco FA unit and a Baldwin AS-16 sit at Joplin. Mo. Both have been re-engined with EMD prime movers. I was a newly-minted USAF pilot driving on leave from Lubbock, TX to Hackensack, NJ.

Boston and Maine E7 3801 sits at Springfield on a Saturday. My father had driven us there so that my sister could visit Mt. Holyoke College and dropped me off by the railroad, of course.

Two "Red and Ready" Schnabel cars and a caboose stand in the small GE yard on Garlington Road. No specific time is known for a power turbine shipment on the Carolina Piedmont Railroad.

Norfolk and Western J 611 is westbound with a short freight train between Atlanta and Birmingham. The bridge over the Tallapoosa River is just a short distance from the Alabama-Georgia border .

A Norfolk Southern SD70ACe leads six other units on a westbound freight as it approaches the GA highway 52 crossing in Lula, GA.

This ex-C&O S1 0-8-0 was sitting just east of the passenger station and near the Roanoke Shops as the sign declares. My father took the picture while I stood next to the locomotive and crew member... (more)

Roanoke-built S1a 230 sit at the front of three such locomotives all coaled up and serviced for various yard switching assignments around Roanoke.

Norfolk and Western Y6b 2174 sits at the large engine terminal in the afternoon.

N&W Y6 2142 is switching at Blue Ridge while working the local freight.

Southern EMD E8 6910 and an E7A are westbound at Blue Ridge with the TENNESSEAN in my father's photograph. My color slide of this same train passing beneath the bridge is also on this website. The... (more)