VLIX GE U23B 9553, a former L&N unit wearing CSX MoW Orange, rests in the early afternoon sun as the train unloads from the first excursion of the season.

Former Southern GE U23B 3965 basks in the morning sun as it prepares for the first excursion of the year.

The Secret City Excursion train rounds the corner along Blair Road with VLIX 9553 former L&N 2817.

What does VLIX 9553 and this L&N Caboose have in common? It itself is of L&N built as L&N 2817 in 1975 this U23B served for several railroads before ending up here at SARM.

Three of the HMCR's four engines sit on the line just south of Clinton Avenue, with one of their new B39-8s, HMCR 8527, sandwiched between their B23-7 and their U23B.

Two of HMCR's GEs rest for the evening by Heart of Huntsville drive.

WJAL-19 approaches the tied-down power of CGAL at Adams Island.

WJAL-19, the local between Allentown and Lehighton, pours it on as it rolls through Adams Island in the late afternoon sun.

Molena had only about 400 residents in 1976, but it must have had a pretty decent cafe to persuade 43's crew to stop, since it was less than 10 miles on to the metropolis of Woodbury, population 1... (more)

From the bridge over Collinwood yard, we could see a train with some Santa Fe power getting up air to head west under cloudy skies. As a sucker hole in the clouds opened up, the train started movi... (more)

Huntsville & Madison County No. 9554 (ex-Louisville & Nashville 2800) rests at the railroad's small outdoor shop in Huntsville.

Two Southern painted U23Bs prepare to depart Greenville southbound in November 1989.

This former Central of Georgia line once ran from a connection with CofG's Macon-Savannah main at Gordon all the way to an interchange with onetime CofG affiliate Georgia Railroad at Covington. B... (more)

HMCR's GEs head south with a single car.

L&N 2768 and another U23B start south with an intermodal train back in a time when trailers were still more common than containers. Don't usually think of U23Bs as best choice for this sort of se... (more)