A leaser and two UP motors help to pull today’s Q579 train as it departs the city of Montgomery and its famous Passenger Train Shed which today has the honors of hosting an inflatable party unde... (more)

With a brightly painted YN2 unit at the helm, Q619 accelerates out of Montgomery as seen from the Wright Brothers Park which finally re-opened in 2013 after a nearly two year closure. The elephan... (more)

The Z man, as it’s sometimes called over the radio, keeps on moving through the outskirts of the capital city where odd things can be found. This TV frame has obviously seen better days as the ... (more)

The Z man starts to throttle up to the blistering speed of 10mph as he passes a semaphore signal always displaying an “approach” at the Air Base Blvd road. This is the second semaphore more)

Q685 begins the journey out of Montgomery taking the "new way" track as it embarks on an alternate route to Waycross. With a higher than normal count of trains running on the Dothan sub that day,... (more)

Foreign power is becoming a regular sight along the CSX these days and Montgomery is no exception as a UP GP60 rests between assignments underneath the SE Vera signal cantilever. This unit was bu... (more)

Y196, with its crew riding on the front porch of their GP38-2, shoves back on a cut of boxcars as it finishes this morning’s work. These boxcars will later on be picked up by Q576 when it depar... (more)

The 6463 is power that will be used by CSX Y550 later in the morning. Here it is seen sitting between the 6014 and 3173 which all show off the various locations of the “CSX” placement on the ... (more)

Today’s first train to be found is actually yesterday's Y221 sitting at the east side of Dewey yard. This train ran out of time at some point in the early hours of today so now it must sit and ... (more)

The sun is almost gone and what has been a clear and very cold - for Alabama, at least - day will turn into an even colder night. A Selma bound train is passing Union Station, which was restored ... (more)

On a bright March morning, a pair of geeps bring a train from Selma into Montgomery. Though not nearly as busy as the Montgomery-Atlanta mainline, the Selma branch in 1975 still fielded a pair of... (more)

CSX Y221, aka “the mill job”, is about to shove back as it works the first stop of the day. That stop would be the trans-flo area on the west end of Dewey yard just beyond the overpass seen o... (more)

Passing underneath the blue colored pedestrian bridge for Montgomery’s River Walk, the flashing EOT of Q520 adds some red to the night while leaves a trail of flashes in the middle of track 2 af... (more)

Returning from the McDuffie Coal Terminal in Mobile, a typical set of mid-1980s CSX coal power leads an empty train north through a hazy summer afternoon in Alabama.

A southbound freight (314 or 336 if memory serves) passes Union Station just after leaving S&NA Yard, the L&N facility shared by SCL after they closed their own Montgomery yard in the 1960s. I ca... (more)