L&N's first GP30 (1000) and first GP35 (1100) team up on a local departing southbound from the combined L&N/SCL yard in Montgomery.
The long-distance local stops a couple miles short of downtown Opelika to work Lee Timber. Pretty-good-looking train on this day...
As the railroads that would become Family Lines became more closely coordinated, two pairs of run-through trains were initiated in 1973 that utilized the West Point Route (A&WP and WRofA) between ... (more)
A little bit of variety on this day, as the usual geep-powered long-distance local has a U23B in the lead.
Three Louisville & Nashville units approach Bluehole, Kentucky with a train of empty hoppers.
This train ran up the old Central of Georgia main from Albany to Smithville, where it swung onto the branch to Eufaula, AL, its destination. The track is good, so the engineer has his GP35 (a uni... (more)
The six-days-a-week Pine Belt Southern turn from LaFayette slides down CSX toward the downtown NS crossing.
A coal train destined for Plant Harlee Branch near Milledgeville waits for a crew as the coach at the rear of the mixed train from Macon disappears in the distance.
In the late 1970s, Family Lines power was starting to float all over the system, but very few non-SCL units made it to the former ACL main through Charleston, at least in my experience. On this d... (more)
The daily NOLA-Cincy run-through train passes the hot box detector just west of Auburn. Never saw another detector like this one. Maybe a diy job by Western Railway of Alabama?
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.
A CC U25C and BB U30B bracket a newer GEBB on a northbound freight at North Charleston.
The crew of this local turn - one of several based in North Charleston - is almost back to home base at Bennett Yard, just a few hundred yards ahead.
A honey-hole of sunlight hits L&N 4124 at just the right moment - the exact opposite of what usually happens to me on partly cloudy days.
