Shot sometime in the mid eighties, as the unit has an SBD number and the paint scheme hasn't had CSX butchery yet but the slide has no labeling whatsoever, so it may not even be North Carolina. F... (more)

Former Southern Ry SD40-2 3294, leads a southbound mixed freight leaving Pomona Yard. The second unit is Norfolk & Western SD40-2 6127 and the third unit is former Norfolk & Western C30-7 8042.

A solid trio of Southern Ry livery, lead by GP50 7067, rolls south with a mixed freight.

Buttheads had no place after SBD came along so all these are going, mostly to scrap. A sad transition for me. When I was in college and had no money I spent many weekend afternoons watching them... (more)

One of those days when you say "it doesn't get much better than this". Here a northbound L&N train passes thru after running from St. Paul on rights over NS.

In those days we always expected Alcos here and finding a low horsepower EMD B-B was a big surprise. This is the Patio switcher spotting a reefer.

FP7A 690 had an interesting history. L&N had a big fleet of FP7As, but as passenger service declined, most were re-geared and put into freight service. In 1966, the ten FP7As with the best steam... (more)

The wildflowers provide a brilliant contrast to plainer-than-plain Georgia Railroad GP7 1023. The train is a run-through Cincy-NOLA train that operates on L&N north of Atlanta, and south of Montg... (more)

The later L&N 40s went into anticipated number series that never panned out. This one is reasonably new. Incidentally, my notes say "best railfan day ever". And why not? They still h... (more)

Wow. Has it been over 40 years? And they were getting rare even then. I made several special trips to get the last ones.

A former SCL GP40 (delivered as 1632 in June 1970) teams with two nearly-new stealth C40-8s to power a northbound freight on the former Western Railway of Alabama.

A Western Railway of Alabama drags a transfer cut out of S&N Yard (combined SCL and L&N) and across Court Street into WRofA's Chester Yard. In a process that will take a few more years to complet... (more)

An ex-C&O B30-7 leads an ex-B&O GP40, an unidentified GP40-2 and an ex-L&N U23B on a southbound freight on the former Western Railway of Alabama.