Southern 4501 is being serviced in Richlands Va.

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)

Trains on display at TVRM.

722 and 750 team-up on an excursion down the former Central of Georgia mainline.

In the 1970s, the southbound Crescent did not get to Hattiesburg until very late in the afternoon, which could be a problem on short winter days. That's why the approach to the Leaf River Bridge ... (more)

Fanning way back when in the Deep South usually meant dirty diesels, but not so much on Southern, and this image shows why - GP38 2819 getting a high-pressure bath at Pegram.

Two SD9s and Southern's (and Central of Georgia's) only SD7 drag a transfer from SL-SF past the Southern Crescent and the pitiful remnants of Terminal Station.

Two Southern SD45s and a Chessie GP40-2 bring a train from Atlanta through the bare field that once was site of tracks for Terminal Station.

Members of the two long-range locals (46 is working just around the curve west of the depot) mingle at the depot, and a few hit the Coke machine in the old waiting room. If I recall, the sodas (d... (more)

It is still hard to believe that the Southern Crescent had to call at this pitiful remnant of Terminal Station. Built in 1909, and torn down in 1969 (just 5 years before this photo), Terminal Sta... (more)

In the early 1970s, the GP38 was the dominant loco type on the old Central of Georgia main through Opelika. Boxy, black, turbo-less 2,000hp - not very exciting. Anything else was a relief, but S... (more)

I am about to run out of light on a December afternoon as a westbound train enters Sylacauga behind a GP38-2, two GP30s and a GP35.

In 1974, the Southern/Western Railway of Alabama crossing in Opelika was still first come, first served. On this spring day long-range local 45 gets their man to the crossing first, so WofA local... (more)

Southern's tuxedo color scheme looked good on a lot of models, but I always thought it worked best on high-nose GEs, like U23B 3942, seen here trying dodge the Georgia sun by squeezing under the o... (more)

Maybe 9,500hp worth of GP30s and 35s is not the ideal set-up for unit coal service, but it worked for many years for Southern.