On a pretty fall afternoon, GM&O 1122 and two maroon mates accelerate out of West End Yard with the Prattville mill turn, giving no clue that this has actually been the ICG for a couple of years.

GM&O RS-1s did everything around Montgomery other than power the Artesia road freights. Their service would last beyond the 1972 ICG merger until 1975, when they would be replaced with a rag-tag a... (more)

BN's takeover of Frisco is a few months old, but the engine facility at the former SL-SF yard in Mobile is - save for one green GP35 back in the pack - still full of red and white diesels. It wo... (more)

Three old geeps climb the grade from Gantt's Quarry back to Sylacauga. There they'll head to Talladega, where they will move over to SCL rails for the trip back to Boyles Yard in Birmingham. In ... (more)

A trio of SDPs takes the Floridian out of town and toward Birmingham and points north. It was still a big train in those days, but nightmarish problems north of Louisville would eventually kill r... (more)

No safety vests were required on a hot summer day - or any day - back in 1974. One of the few RS-1s to get orange and white leads two unrepainted Alcos as they put together a train for the Prattv... (more)

The Western used a small IH tractor to pull a trailer around the engine facility at Chester Yard to service the diesels. All three affiliated roads - WofA, A&WP and GARR - are represented here.

UP 3239, trailed by two former Missouri Pacific SD40-2s, heads a KC-bound freight through Nevada, Missouri. That's MKT's Parsons-St. Louis line in the foreground. Both of these lines were spun-o... (more)

Green and yellow geeps are shown rolling 101 through the tiny Bourbon County village of Hiattville on a beautiful late winter afternoon. Behind the modern diesels is a big train, and they're runn... (more)

The tunnel beneath the Southern that links the former CRR and C&WC required an approach from the south that was neither flat nor straight, as shown by this northbound train about to enter the tunn... (more)

Its trip to Salina from the Colorado mainline at Gypsum almost over, a very short local crosses the through truss bridge over the Smoky Hill River. For many years MP ran scheduled local freights ... (more)

A pair of SD40-2s of 1970s vintage lead newer SDs (including year-old SD70ACe 4002) and a northbound freight up the approach to the massive Arkansas River bridge at Spiro.

Running from GMD-1 1143, the engineer eases over the worst part of D&R's line. The big customers are here on the southern end, but this is also where excessive ground water makes track maintenanc... (more)

OK, Little Rock isn't New York. However, with a 2014 MSA population of about 730,000, it is a far sight from tiny Perry, population 314, where this train originated a few hours earlier. After in... (more)

After UP took over WP, which had a diesel fleet of four-axle units, Omaha began operating the Feather River Route with the C-C units of that era - SD40s and Dash-2s and U30Cs and C30-7s. WP's B-B... (more)