Southern 2544 leads five more GP30s, plus a GP35 and a GP38 on an eastbound train.

Once upon a time, Opelika generated enough traffic that most freights would at least make a quick pick-up/set-out. That has just happened in the photo, and 135 is again underway for Birmingham, w... (more)

Southern inherited a line from Columbus, GA to Montgomery when they took over Central of Georgia, but the handwriting was on the wall. By the time of this photo, traffic was shrinking as Family L... (more)

Members of the two long-range locals (46 is working just around the curve west of the depot) mingle at the depot, and a few hit the Coke machine in the old waiting room. If I recall, the sodas (d... (more)

In 1974, the Southern/Western Railway of Alabama crossing in Opelika was still first come, first served. On this spring day long-range local 45 gets their man to the crossing first, so WofA local... (more)

L&N 1030 and 1031 aren't much past their tenth birthdays, but they are already mostly relegated to service on secondary trains, like this long-distance local heading south from S&N Yard. On the r... (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)

Three SD40-2s and a GP38-2 swing to the right and off the New Orleans main as they start their trip to north Alabama and then on to Memphis. Just ahead at 27th Street interlocking they will cross... (more)

Southern Railway train 1st #45 heads across the fill at the Waverly Parkway underpass. 45 & 46 were the long-distance locals that worked from Columbus, GA to Sylacauga, AL.

Western of Alabama's local train 6 waits at the crossing as an eastbound freight rolls by on Southern's former Central of Georgia Birmingham-Columbus, GA mainline. The crossing was not interlocke... (more)

A trio of Southern Railway E8As lead the railway’s flagship train, the Southern Crescent, as it makes its way from New Orleans LA to Washington DC. Train 2 is seen at the passenger stati... (more)

Saw this train - and its unusual power - out my office window in downtown Auburn, but could not leave work (and could not have overtaken 145, anyway), so called my wife, who was at our home right ... (more)

A train that originated in S&N yard is just a few hundred yards into its journey down the Dothan Sub as it passes below I-65 on a drizzly summer day. Just a few months earlier, power would have l... (more)

CSX B36-7 and SD50 bracket an EMD lease fleet SD40 on a northbound at Loachapoka.