In the months preceding the short-lived Family Lines 'era', two pairs of Atlanta-Montgomery runthroughs were added to the timetables of the Atlanta & West Point and the Western Railway of Alabama.... (more)
Two C30-7s lead a Department of Defense train through Loachapoka. Use of autoracks sure changed the appearance of these trains, which for many prior years had relied predominantly on open flats.
The 6,000 horsepower GEs were not exactly a smash, but 642 looks like a star racing intermodal down the hill at Loachapoka. This is the former Western Railway of Alabama, a road that never had a ... (more)