The turn to Lafayette has made it back to Roanoke Junction, just outside Opelika. When they receive clearance, they'll enter the CSX main for a 2-mile jaunt back to home rails in downtown Opelika... (more)

Milledgeville was once an important town (check out the edge of the ornate brick station) on the once important Georgia Railroad Macon branch. When Georgia Power closes Plant Harlee (it may have ... (more)

The NS line between Opelika and Lafayette - a remnant of a longer CofG branch - was running out of time when this shot was made. It would be spun-off as the Pine Belt Southern, but that outfit on... (more)

Looks like they had some extra blue paint at the shop and someone decided 7509's plow was the best place for it. Photo made shortly before these signals were replaced.

One of IC's SD40s with the unusual L-shaped windshield gets some attention at East Thomas yard. IC once had a pretty fair amount of B'ham traffic. Don't know what killed it, maybe going head-to-... (more)

L&N runthroughs initiated in the early 1970s brought a little color to the West Point Route. Power was mostly GP38s and U23Bs with other B-Bs mixed in. In this shot, a portion of Auburn Universi... (more)

An L&N crew waits to add private car Florida Surf to the rear of the Floridian. The car was built by Pullman in 1954 for the NC&StL.

In the days before the Meridian-Shreveport line became the KCS 'Speedway', a westbound ICG freight rocks-and-rolls along the then lightly-trafficked line at Monroe.

L&N 6359 trails a Mobile-bound freight as it passes Bell Street tower. The GM&O/ICG tower controlled the interlocking where L&N, SCL (ACL), WofA Selma line and GM&O's line from Tuscaloosa came to... (more)

The daily Artesia, MS - Montgomery, AL freight is on a roll through the hilly country south of Tuscaloosa behind a typical mix of ICG types and colors.

The tie train power hits the steepest grade and iffiest track on their trip down the D&R. A few hundred feet ahead, the big GEs will be tucked into a siding and the regular D&R crew - already sitt... (more)

This pair of BNSF GEs is in Russellville to power a sixty-car tie train put together by D&R. They were dropped off by UP late in the afternoon on November 19, and spent the night on the north leg... (more)

After placing a fusee between the rails of the Southern, a crew member climbs aboard 754 as the train proceeds toward Montgomery.

A trio of SDs - led by an SD45-2 - roar toward the short bridge that carried SCL's ex-SAL Atlanta-Birmingham main over both the SOU and CofG mains at Weems.