Norfolk Southern EMD SD50 6500 and another EMD lead an eastbound freight at Austell, GA

Norfolk and Western J 611 is being cleaned at Armour Yard in preparation for a weekend of Norfolk Southern steam excursions.

Norfolk and Western J 611 pulls an excursion from Atlanta to Chattanooga at Berwin, GA.

Southern Ms class 2-8-2 4501 is running fast just north of Rome, GA with an excursion. There's a Southern EMD FP7 ahead of the dome car to assist the 2-8-2.

Former Canadian Pacific H1c 4-6-4 2839 departs Atlanta with an excursion to Chattanooga, TN. An EMD FP7 is behind the auxiliary water tender for assistance.

Southern GP38-2 5111 and GP38AC 2857 are eastbound and wait while a steam excursion led by CP 4-6-4 2839 loads in the station.

Former Canadian Pacific H1c Royal Hudson 2839 is ready to leave Atlanta with a Southern railway excursion yo Chattanooga, TN.

THE SEMINOLE arrives in Effingham on a cold morning behind a GofG E8 and two IC E9A units. It is crossing the Pennsylvania Railroad's Panhandle Line here and the Pennsy's position light signals ca... (more)

An Alco FA unit and a Baldwin AS-16 sit at Joplin. Mo. Both have been re-engined with EMD prime movers. I was a newly-minted USAF pilot driving on leave from Lubbock, TX to Hackensack, NJ.

Boston and Maine E7 3801 sits at Springfield on a Saturday. My father had driven us there so that my sister could visit Mt. Holyoke College and dropped me off by the railroad, of course.

Two "Red and Ready" Schnabel cars and a caboose stand in the small GE yard on Garlington Road. No specific time is known for a power turbine shipment on the Carolina Piedmont Railroad.

Norfolk and Western J 611 is westbound with a short freight train between Atlanta and Birmingham. The bridge over the Tallapoosa River is just a short distance from the Alabama-Georgia border .

A Norfolk Southern SD70ACe leads six other units on a westbound freight as it approaches the GA highway 52 crossing in Lula, GA.

This ex-C&O S1 0-8-0 was sitting just east of the passenger station and near the Roanoke Shops as the sign declares. My father took the picture while I stood next to the locomotive and crew member... (more)

Roanoke-built S1a 230 sit at the front of three such locomotives all coaled up and serviced for various yard switching assignments around Roanoke.