Freshly painted and back to hauling freight, CSXT #841 crew has to wait for nearly 2 hours before getting permission to head north.

Eastbound Norfolk Southern mixed freight rolls through Bessemer Alabama at sunset

Train 11T sits at Bessemer

NS OCS rolls north to Birmingham

Bessemer Local A39 switches some cars at Bessemer Yard.

CSX R624-23 "Black Warrior Met Turn" is tied down and getting refueled at Bessemer before the crew of the CSX C240-23 (Bessemer,AL-Mobile,AL) goes on duty to take the Alabama's black gol... (more)

Train 29S rolls past the former Southern Railway Depot at Bessemer, Al

An extra manifest, running as a unit train with 264 containers of New York City trash, passes under an abandoned ACL bridge on it's way to the landfill in Uniontown, AL.

Birmingham-Mobile #385 gets moving after meeting a northbound coming off the 3B District, passing the relatively large two story Alabama Great Southern RR Station.

Another mugshot. Originally SOU. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

Almost exactly like an SW9 except for the from. Originally SOU. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

Almost exactly like an SW9 except for the frame. Originally SOU. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

More motive power stored, future unknown.

BNSF 9773 getting the scrappers torch at Birmingham Rail & Locomotive

NS 5252 sits awaiting the scrappers torch at Birmingham Rail & Locomotive