Photo by Dave Petke. From my collection.
Just happened to be in town to look at a bunch of retired locomotives for sale. Caught this train on a break. Little money, great fringe benefits.
Originally SCL, later SBD.
A yard crew prepares to go to work in the Cayce, South Carolina CSX terminal in the summer of 2007 with CSX 5581 and 2614. CSXT has a peculiar history according to sources I found online. It was o... (more)
The Minnesota Commercial's Job 31 spends the day switching cars at the railroad's yard in Midway, Minnesota between St. Paul and Minneapolis. Home to a fleet of classic Alco's and GE's, today's po... (more)
MNNR B30-7 49 leads the Hugo job into Midway Yard.
CH-1 arrives back at Campbell Hall with an ex-SP B30-7 on the point.
A single GE B30-7 works the grain elevators in the Longfellow suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota on the Minnesota Commercial's Hiawatha Job. The crew has just pulled a cut of cars from the General M... (more)
MNNR 49 hauls in freight from the New Brighton to Midway transfer job.
One of the neater GE units still running on the Commercial is this ex-SLSF/BN B30-7. On this day, the 54 was assigned to the Hugo Job, and is seen here preparing to work Pallet Service Corporation... (more)
An ex-C&O B30-7 leads an ex-B&O GP40, an unidentified GP40-2 and an ex-L&N U23B on a southbound freight on the former Western Railway of Alabama.
Local power is tied down in the siding as a Birmingham-bound intermodal train behind former Conrail SDs passes.
The old ACL between Montgomery and Dothan has lots of up and down, and plenty of curves.
The usual B30-7s are headed for Montgomery on the return leg of the daily long-distance local.
