Seaboard Coast Line U36B #1788 at the Tilford Yard Service Center. #1788 was built May 1971 and later became CSX #5740

Seaboard Coast Line U36B #1791, leading SCL Fitzgerald-Manchester long distance local #510, entering the yard on Track One. #1793, built July 1971, later became CSX 5743

Seaboard Coast Line U36B #1793 leading Atlanta-Manchester local train #501. #1793, built May 1971, later became CSX 5745

Seaboard Coast Line U36B #1828, leading SCL train #323, with the old head engineer waving his right hand and blowing the horn with his left. #1828, built November 1971, later became CSX 5778

ex/exx-CSXT/SBD 5763, nee-SCL 1812

It may be slow-moving, but the action in Bone Valley never seems to stop. A double U36B/Mate set is shown here with the zillionth train of phosphate.

An unidentified manifest (although I suspect Philadelphia/East Side to Saginaw R397) led by a U36B in Seaboard System paint, departs Brunswick yard in the afternoon of August 21, 1988. WB Tower ca... (more)

No longer King of the Road, a former SCL U36B finds itself at the headend of a junk freight with a motley trio of geeps. Mailbox 'gangs' like the one in the photo were once common in many parts o... (more)

Amtrak initiated operations with a fleet of Es and Fs bought or leased from the member roads. Most of them were quite old, while the rest were very old. In spite of the fleet's age, scenes like ... (more)

CSXT GE units 5724 and 5709 have brought the New River Train back from Hinton, WV and have a green board to back down and let NKP Berkshire 765 depart for Huntington.

SCL 1776 - The One That Begat Them All

There were two different U36Bs on the Seaboard Coast Line that carried the number "1776." The SCL's U36Bs were being delivered, and 1776:1 was... (more)

TTI 5763 leads a Paris-Maysville coal train thu Carlisle, KY in May of 2005. There are 5 units on the point and 3 more on the rear. Shot on Provia 100 slide film.

A U36B and a mother (GP40-2 6472) - slug (2248) set have just uncoupled from an eastbound CSX coal train running on NS trackage rights. The trio awaits a signal to return light to Big Stone Gap wh... (more)

TTI's 5911 leads a southbound by the Bourbon Drive-In as it nears its destination of Paris.

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