A single pigeon - instead of the usual flock - is startled by three U30Cs and a C30-7 taking a train west.

Shiny, year-old 4653 leads two of MP's oldest and dustiest U23Bs on a freight out of St Louis. This train came down the line on the 'Missouri side' through Bismarck. The line peeling off to the ... (more)

MP 2300 is less than a year old, but still draws less than glamorous assignments, like working the Salina branch. The crew will perhaps make a run down to the Pueblo main at Gypsum, and that will... (more)

I think these GP38s and their cab are headed to Illinois, but I cannot remember which bridge this is.

On the former MP Pueblo line, an eastbound is in the hole to meet an opposing empty coal train. It's a beautiful spring day, so everybody seems to be on the ground to give the coal train a good l... (more)

At merger time, it was hard to believe MP would disappear. All these years later, it is sometimes hard to remember what it was like to have so many Class Ones.

Three SDs and a GP38 head for Gadsden and Gulf States Steel with a unit train of pellets. That's the former SL-SF/AT&N bridge in the foreground.

Two ancient L&N U23Bs - still wearing what's left of their L&N paint schemes - sit in the sun at a familiar place, the former L&N/SCL yard in Montgomery.

I was on the way to set up for band job, but took a few minutes to run into West End Yard to see what was around. I had almost no cushion for the job, but when I saw this neat power set - two GM&... (more)

The scene may be nondescript, but the track is the original South Carolina Canal and Railroad, one of the oldest segments of rail line in the United States. There were few customers left in the a... (more)

Sandwiching a fuel tender, three GP50s and a cabless GE lead a train through the abutments of the abandoned IC Gruber Line.

GP30 and GP38 2771 power the westbound local - with lots of pulpwood flats, as usual - out of Opelika.

Once upon a time, Opelika generated enough traffic that most freights would at least make a quick pick-up/set-out. That has just happened in the photo, and 135 is again underway for Birmingham, w... (more)

The Crescent - behind two E8As and two FP7As - pulls away from its Tuscaloosa station stop.

The Piedmont - with its usual cut of pigs on the rear - makes its station stop at Lynchburg.