GM&O (and later ICG) depended on RS-1s for about 30 years, from the start of deliveries in 1945, until ICG finally pulled the plug in late 1975 and replaced the Alcos with a flood of geeps. In Mo... (more)

Among the hottest trains on Southern Railway were those given the designation Comar, for co-ordinated motor and rail. One of the Comar fleet, 223 had just four cars this day, so the power - a tri... (more)

Locomotives were stationed in Opelika, Alabama for decades, starting back in the days of Central of Georgia and Western Railway of Alabama. The practice continued through years of corporate chang... (more)

Initiated in 1973, train 215 was probably the hottest freight ever to run on the West Point Route. Originating in the big Hamlet yard, 215 ran to Atlanta via the old SAL, then over the West Point ... (more)

Milwaukee's daily Iowa City turn - behind a typical-for-the-time pair of SD10s - has dropped down the grade from the former Rock Island main to work industries in Iowa City's river bottoms area. ... (more)

In a preview of the FL/SS/CSX future, ACL closed its Montgomery yard in the 1960s, and moved into affiliate L&N's S&NA yard a few hundreds yards to the north. The power in the engine facility on ... (more)

To cut cost, L&N simplified their great gray and yellow scheme several times. The black outlining the yellow was eliminated, the 'pine tree' nose treatment was simplified, lettering was simplifie... (more)

A GP40-2/slug set works local industries on the east side of Valdosta on a still very warm November afternoon.

The daily sb long-distance local between Montgomery and Dothan has worked a small woodyard north of town and rolls by the ex-ACL downtown depot.

The substantial brick station (which they painted white for some reason) at the north end of the yard gives an idea of the onetime importance of Sumter, SC to the ACL, which ran in five directions... (more)

A scruffy GP38-2 (ex-L&N 4060) and a leased Santa Fe C30-7 take a sb down the old West Point Route. The flood of new C40-8s is getting underway, so the property is about to start looking a litt... (more)

Apologies to UP fans, but UP power - at least on the Van Buren Sub - is generally dirty/rusty/scruffy, and until recently we rarely saw pool power in these parts. That has changed, with an influx... (more)