During its last weeks of operation, the Ozark turn trundles through the rural emptiness of Barbour County Alabama with just five cars.

Black and white geeps and dead winter vegetation provide little color to the scene as a healthy long-distance local pulls in to work Opelika.

Acting as a mid train DPU one of three GP40X's that the Southern and later NS had on the roster is on a westbound nearing Louisville.

SDs take a train south on the Atlanta-Macon line.

Southern had a big fleet of GP35s, mostly numbered in the 2600s and 2700s, with all but two in that series riding on AAR Type B trucks. There were also 5 or 6 GP35s that were bought and sublettere... (more)

Southern' ex-CofG Birmingham-Columbus, GA main was loaded up with GP38s and GP38-2s in the early 1970s when I first started hanging around the tracks. Other models showed up regularly, but the bo... (more)

Southern SDs roll between the Ocmulgee River and Rose Hill Cemetery as they start their trek to Atlanta.

A westbound Southern train heads through the Western Railway of Alabama crossing as SCL Hamlet-NOLA run-through train - with an unusual-for-this-train SD35 leading - waits. That GP9 in the lead o... (more)

The switch crew in the GP38-2 get out of the way and take a breather as SD40-2s head out to the north end to connect to a freight headed for Selma and Birmingham.

GP30s lead a westbound around the big curve at First Avenue. Think the MofW guys missed those little trailers when the companies started putting them up in hotels/motels?

Typical power for a hot Southern Railway intermodal train way-back-when - two GP35s and two GP30s.

In 1973, you rarely had to wait long to see railroad action in Opelika. There were lots of local rail customers, Southern and Western Railway of Alabama interchanged daily, and a Southern branch ... (more)

Time is running out for Southern's branch connecting Columbus and Griffin, as a GP30 and maybe a dozen cars roll into Concord. That tree trimmer's yellow rig is doing a good job of pretending to ... (more)

Southern's small group of former Central of Georgia SD9s (and a single SD7) tended to be found in either yard or transfer duty in Atlanta and Birmingham. That is not what is happening here, thoug... (more)

Four Southern GP38-2’s and a GP38 wheel a southbound TOFC train through Catlett, Virginia.