Amtrak #19 'The Crescent' is on the move again after getting talked by a stop signal at Heflin.

Southbound Floridian is close to on-time on a beautiful summer afternoon.

The northbound Floridian is just a few hundred feet short of Union Station. The engineer has just restarted his train after stopping for an SCL employee to drop from the lead SDP. The SCL man is... (more)

On what I believe is one of the last runs, the GLE (or American Orient Express) heads west on the former Central of Georgia toward Birmingham. Once the route of some important midwest-Florida str... (more)

The northbound Floridian kicks up dust as it speeds through Elmore, site of the junction with a branch to Wetumpka, the county seat. The tank cars - probably carrying chemicals needed by a local ... (more)

The northbound Crescent rolls through Cuba, AL at track speed on this dreary, yet colorful autumn morning.

Amtrak's phase IV heritage P42DC Locomotive #184 leads southbound Crescent 19 through Boligee, AL.

Amtrak 85 leads Amtrak 19 through the tunnel in Cook Springs, AL

Amtrak 130, the 2nd phase 2 heritage unit (replacing #66), leads train #19, the Crescent, through Birmingham, Alabama.

Amtrak's southbound Crescent is on time as it strolls through Cook Springs, Alabama with it's next stop ahead at Birmingham.

In Amtrak's early days, the Floridian was generally short enough to be handled by a single E, like this B&O hand-me-down getting its windshield cleaned. The train would grow for a couple years, t... (more)

Amtrak's northbound Crescent is a half hour out of Birmingham as it heads for Atlanta and then points north.

Amtrak 20 is seen here heading east passed a row of yellow weeds along the line at Riverside, AL, with Amtrak's Big Game unit on the point

An "Empire Service" train arrives in Hudson, headed North out of New York Penn Station.