Its paint weathered to a baby blue after nine years of service, former Conrail 6256 (delivered June 1994) will be in Thoroughbred black soon enough.

Former Southern GP50 leads former Conrail GP40-2 as they power the long-range local towards home in Columbus, GA.

SD40-2 3099 and a U30C - both partially covered in oil from some mechanical unhappiness - lead a train eastward toward Kansas City on Missouri Pacific's fine Pueblo line.

Former L&N 4107 - delivered March 1973 - has new number and small CSXT stenciled below cab window, but pretty much still looks 'all-L&N' otherwise.

Four-year-old 2543 teams with a GP50 and GP38 to bring coal loads along the curving fill just west of the Parrish yard. The loads were headed for Wilsonville (I'm pretty sure) and came from one o... (more)

Ex-N&W SD40-2 teams with ex-Southern GP38-2 to move the long-distance local west. Both units were delivered in 1974, with the same road numbers as in the photo.

Cotton Belt GP60 teams with UP C41-8W and tunnel motor to drag a northbound up the grade through downtown Opelika.

On a gray winter day, the crew of a westbound train of company materials slows to meet an eastbound at Gold Ridge. This service seems an early demotion for not quite four-year-old 8579, assisted ... (more)

Back when KCS was using rebuilt GP40s for just about everything except coal/grain unit trains, an ex-CN GP led an intermodal west through downtown Birmingham, assisted by a DM&E (ex-Milwaukee) SD4... (more)

For the last several years, D&R has moved unit tie trains from a treatment plant near their North Dardanelle yard to the UP interchange in Russellville. The trains, which run perhaps 15-18 times ... (more)

A good-looking trio - B23-7/GP38/GP38-2 - is about to pass the NS communication tower at Waverly Parkway as it leads the westbound local out of Opelika. They are just about to cross one of the bi... (more)

I acquired this slide decades ago, and unfortunately have no information on location or photographer. Perhaps Western Pacific fans can offer a location.

A crew member runs ahead to flag a street crossing a few hundred yards north of the Amtrak station. Don't know if this was routine or a temporary response to a faulty crossing gate, but it looks ... (more)

Starting in the late 1980s (as I recall), SP power became very common on trains coming up CSX from New Orleans, but we did not see many GP40P-2s. I watched hundreds of trains through Opelika in t... (more)

Running on the former Western Railway of Alabama, CSX 145 slides around the big curve at Loachapoka as it begins a twelve-mile descent from Piedmont Upland to coastal plain. The leader has been t... (more)