Southern manifest waits for a signal.

The Crescent backs out of the station to the coach yard.

The Crescent stops for servicing.

Southern SD40 3170 leads a caboose train around the NCTM grounds.

Dressed up in Polar Express lettering, Southern GP30 2610 pauses to load passengers for the next trip to the north pole during a rainy evening at Spencer shops.

A pretty healthy turn is arriving in Opelika after a trip to Lafayette and Roanoke. By this date, I believe there was just a single shipper in Roanoke - a cotton mill - and it would not be long u... (more)

Sitting in the snow by the old Giant Grocery warehouse. Photo by F. David Petke. From my collection.

Unusual that this unit does not yet have a paper air filter and that it is coupled to an RS-3 when most were already gone.

The closest I thought I would ever get to an FTB is this repurposed derelict. Looking at the connections I suspect this might have earlier been a Locotrol receiver car. Arguably the most histori... (more)

As the harbingers of spring timidly peek out from their buds, a light drizzle falls from chilly clouds cloaking the steep ridges south of the former Southern as this westbound local descends the ... (more)

From my collection. Photo by Jim King.

Former Southern Railway GP30, 2601, spends a peaceful night in the Spencer roundhouse.

A spotting features nightmare. Note the 48” fan and GP18 radiator section behind the cab, the paper air filter box and the lace of louvers on the battery box and under the cab.