The old ACL between Montgomery and Dothan has lots of up and down, and plenty of curves.

A Keith Ardinger photo in my dad collection. No location on the mound. My best guess. This is a train form the US Steel operation from Atlantic City, Wyoming. That has been interchanged to Union P... (more)

Alabama Southern train 111 is seen tied down in Hackberry Ln in Tuscaloosa, AL.

Flying white flags Maryland Midland’s Union Bridge – Highfield turn rounds the horseshoe curve at Sabillasville, Maryland. The train has picked up quite a few interchange cars in Highfield.

A Maryland Midland waits on his SD24 while his conductor exchanges waybills with the operator at the Western Maryland office in Highfield, Maryland.

Maryland Midland’s westbound train is seen crossing over the Maryland highway 550 as it climbs the Catoctin Mountains west of Thurmont, Maryland.

Southern Pacific EMD SD45 No. 9109 leads an eastbound double stack train past the station at Franklin Park, Illinois, on December 5, 1987. Franklin Park is northwest of downtown Chicago on Soo Lin... (more)

An Alabama Southern freight with CN power rolls past the former M&O Depot in Northport, AL. The depot houses a nice model train display and also has a former ICG caboose on display behind it.

As the sun breaks free from partial cloud over, CSX Q601 rolls south on CSX's Mobile & Montgomery Subdivision with KCSM "gray ghost" 4554 on point. After breaking a knuckle sixty-four ca... (more)

ACB4401 and ACB4405 haul an empty iron ore train through Beckenham.

HLCX SD40-2 #6305 still wearing its MPI paint leads Alabama Southern Train 112 east through Gordo, AL., on their way to Tuscaloosa, AL.

CNW 936 was the final U30C purchased by C&NW. Here it moves west near Eau Claire tower where it will divert to the main track to Spooner and Superior with a Twin Ports bound freight. The GEs spent... (more)

CNW 932 was one of seven U30Cs acquired by C&NW in between multiple orders of SD45s in early 1968. This I believe was the only one painted in the scheme shown. This variation was tried from the la... (more)

The Pend Oreille Valley Railroad turn operating to the BNSF interchange at Sandpoint is approaching the Syringa Heights Road grade crossing between Dover and Sandpoint, Idaho, on the morning of Fe... (more)

CNW RS-1 1068 waits for a rail train to pass before continuing with its work in January of 1974. Both trains are on CNW's New Line in St. Francis. The Island Job has a group of piggyback cars that... (more)