An eclectic mix of ICG power rests at the former Illinois Central Meridian Yard.

Former L&N 4107 - delivered March 1973 - has new number and small CSXT stenciled below cab window, but pretty much still looks 'all-L&N' otherwise.

Four-year-old 2543 teams with a GP50 and GP38 to bring coal loads along the curving fill just west of the Parrish yard. The loads were headed for Wilsonville (I'm pretty sure) and came from one o... (more)

On a gray winter day, the crew of a westbound train of company materials slows to meet an eastbound at Gold Ridge. This service seems an early demotion for not quite four-year-old 8579, assisted ... (more)

Back when KCS was using rebuilt GP40s for just about everything except coal/grain unit trains, an ex-CN GP led an intermodal west through downtown Birmingham, assisted by a DM&E (ex-Milwaukee) SD4... (more)

A good-looking trio - B23-7/GP38/GP38-2 - is about to pass the NS communication tower at Waverly Parkway as it leads the westbound local out of Opelika. They are just about to cross one of the bi... (more)

Starting in the late 1980s (as I recall), SP power became very common on trains coming up CSX from New Orleans, but we did not see many GP40P-2s. I watched hundreds of trains through Opelika in t... (more)

Running on the former Western Railway of Alabama, CSX 145 slides around the big curve at Loachapoka as it begins a twelve-mile descent from Piedmont Upland to coastal plain. The leader has been t... (more)

CSX 144 is tucked into the siding as 145 booms past behind the usual B36-7s. Once upon a time Milstead was the location of a junction with the Birmingham and Southeastern Railway which connected ... (more)

Saw this train - and its unusual power - out my office window in downtown Auburn, but could not leave work (and could not have overtaken 145, anyway), so called my wife, who was at our home right ... (more)

In the early 1990s, this train ran with a pair of B30-7s perhaps 90-95% of the time, but anything could show up, as on this day when two U18Bs - one all bright, and one all stealthy - were a pleas... (more)

A train that originated in S&N yard is just a few hundred yards into its journey down the Dothan Sub as it passes below I-65 on a drizzly summer day. Just a few months earlier, power would have l... (more)

Back from a run to Croghan, the crew of the Walterboro turn is met by a non-operating type as they near the mainline. If I remember correctly, this train ran W'boro to Bennett Yard (N Charleston)... (more)

Crewman rides the steps after dropping a couple cars in the house track.

CSX B36-7 and SD50 bracket an EMD lease fleet SD40 on a northbound at Loachapoka.