The Piedmont - with its usual cut of pigs on the rear - makes its station stop at Lynchburg.

A GP7 and GP35 team up to roll the local west. Think wood products are an important part of the traffic mix? Just ahead is the long, high fill at North Auburn.

The long-range local has completed its work in Opelika and is about to head west behind a pair of GP30s. Just a few months earlier power likely would have been GP7/9/18. A few months before that... (more)

Southern had 76 GP35s. Most had AAR Type B trucks, but five purchased for Central of Georgia had Blombergs, as did two units numbered in low 2700s. Here, one of the CofG units is powering the Ro... (more)

A GP38 runs caboose-light through Chickasaw after working customers on the far north side of Mobile. That's BN/SLSF/AT&N in the foreground.

The every-day-but-Sunday Roanoke turn is back in Opelika with a substantial train. The train used a couple miles of the Western Railway of Alabama's main to get to Roanoke Junction, where their o... (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)

Way back when, GPs were much more common than GEs or SDs, at least in my neck of the woods. That made this set of SDs a treat on a nice spring afternoon. In just a few seconds the operator will ... (more)

With fog from Mobile Bay, the usual Deep South summer haze, and emissions from huge nearby paper mills, it can (or could back then) be tough to get even slight color in the sky. This day was shap... (more)

The power - three SD40s plus three B367s - kind of tells you that is probably an important CSX train sitting just beyond the signal. That doesn't matter, as the Southern (well, ok... NS) long-ran... (more)

Southern went in big for the GP35, eventually owning 76. Five, including 244, were purchased for Central of Georgia, and stood out by having three-digit numbers and Blomberg trucks. The other 71... (more)

A sb CSX train is approaching the Amtrak (ex-L&N) station as it comes down railroad gulch in downtown Birmingham behind a pair of GEs. The C30-7 in the lead was delivered to SCL (in Family Lines ... (more)

Leaning into the big curve at Notasulga, ten-year-old 7023 is still wearing the GE-applied Family Lines livery it wore when delivered to SCL in March 1979. It is teamed with a couple of SD45-2s, ... (more)

A few minutes after a quick pick-up/set-out at Bennett Yard in North Charleston, train 120 zooms up the slight grade into Hanahan. This 120 has a pair of big ol' six-axle GEs - a welcome relief f... (more)

A Southern freight - with three GP35s and a single GP30 - gets to Chickasaw just ahead of the shadows. All those AAR Type-Bs make the GP30 with its Blombergs the oddball in this scene. That is B... (more)