Train 26A navigates the "puzzle" just south of 32nd St in Birmingham, Alabama just ahead of a nasty thuderstorm.

Heading North up the passenger Main trying to stay ahead of a T-Storm is a Norfolk Southern Vehicle Train passing through 32nd Street in Birmingham, AL.

The triple deuce splits the endangered searchlights north of downtown Birmingham.

A Birmingham to Waycross manifest passes the preserved Sloss Furnace. Unfortunately, the searchlight signals will soon meet a different fate.

NS 329 passes one of the few remaining Southern RR cantilevers. A set of OSHA compliant steps have been added, which is much better than the alternative.

Passing through 43rd Street in Birmingham, AL. Is NS Train 320 heading Eastbound to Norris Yard in Irondale, AL.

Back when Birmingham skies were often smudgy from the many operating steel mills, BS 251 works in the Ensley yard.

CSX train P901 , which was the business train or as some say, office car special, heads north out of CSX Boyles Yard at CP Black Creek, en route North to Nashville, TN on the S&NA North Division o... (more)

Norfolk Southern Freight Train 172 makes their way Northbound as they pass through Birmingham, AL. With BNSF C44-9W #725 in the Warbonnet paint scheme on the point 5/23/015

CSXT OCS train P901 enters the south end of Boyles Yard to take on a fresh load of fuel for the trip on to Nashville, Tennessee

A few things have changed since the last time I took a shot from here. As part of the new PTC mandates, older signals more)

Second hand power makes up a majority of the consist on this freight train. One of the recently acquired ex-UP 9043MAC models is riding third behind a former Conrail dash 8 at the front of today'... (more)

Norfolk Southern Intermodal Train 21R makes their way Westbound as they pass through 32nd Street Interlocking in Birmingham, AL. NS 21R no longer runs

Photographer- Bruce Nelson- from the 35 mm original Kodachrome slide. August 20, 1982. N&W 611 accelerates through a Kudzu laden fill shortly after leaving Irondale on her journey back to her ... (more)