Battered but still beautiful, 6907 and another green E8A bracket a pair of black FP7As on the southbound Crescent as it slides past Tuscaloosa's turreted station on a hazy late spring day in Alaba... (more)

On a hot, wet summer afternoon in coastal Georgia, the rain has stopped momentarily, and the gray skies have brightened a bit. The break lasts just long enough to shoot the power from Southern's ... (more)

A loaded train with absolutely typical power for 1981 (a pair of C30-7s/pair of SD40-2s/U30C) waits north of Bridgeport for an empty train behind BN and MP SD40-2s.

SLSF was all B-B power into Mobile, and BN pretty much continued that practice for a few years. But by the 1990s and the Santa Fe merger, any sort of power could show up in Mobile. However, even... (more)

Heading up a westbound, SD40 7369 looks pretty good, but trailing SW1500 2662 is as grubby as the abused waters of the Calcasieu River below.

BN's PBF glides along the flood wall as a '64 Impala cruises by on Water Street.

A switch crew drills covered hoppers in downtown Hastings. That's the 1920 Victory Building in the background, built by the Dutton Harness Co to commemorate the end of WWI. The trees visible abo... (more)

With brand-new BN numbers, a quartet of SLSF diesels still wear their Frisco paint as they drop down the hill and over Threemile Creek. The red and white won't last long though, as BN will push h... (more)

Southern 2695 backs a wreck train around the curve just north of downtown as a work crew waits near the wreck site. The Man O' War has been gone for years, but the curve still has a fair degree o... (more)

Power off a just-arrived freight from Birmingham heads under Telegraph Road and toward Southern's open-air Mobile engine facility.

Geeps lead an eastbound across the non-interlocked double crossing with the Western of Alabama in glaring afternoon light typical for these parts. The crossing was automated in the late 1970s, an... (more)

A quartet of geeps lead a train off Huey P. Long Bridge, out of sight around the curve in the distance.

MP's Herbie got updated after the UP merger, and is shown on tour at Hays, Kansas on the Kanas Pacific.

Faded UP 3333 leads a mixed bag of diesels - a pair of UP GP35, a UP GP30, an N&W GP38 and an N&W SD35 - on a westbound freight back when we though 60-70 trains a day was fabulous.

The crew's day took a bad turn when their GP40 slipped off the rails on the spur into a cotton mill. An Opelika fixture for decades (and location for much of the movie 'Norma Rae', OMC is long-go... (more)