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)

It is past dusk as the westbound evening TP&W do-everything train gets to Canton, where it pulls an ancient home-road car from a siding.

The sb long-distance local rolls past the Banks passing track. Once an important main for freight and passengers, this ex-ACL line has been on shaky ground for years.

Just in time for its 10th birthday, ex-SL-SF GP38AC 638 gets a new number and a little 'BN' stenciled below the cab window. The low January afternoon sun really warms up the Frisco colors, but th... (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)

A few weeks into the era of N&W control of IT, a freight behind mixed IT and N&W diesels comes out of IT's little Springfield yard and is about to cross over onto the N&W main to end east.

The Powder River coal boom resulted in many cooperative arrangements between companies that were more typically competitors, as illustrated by this scene of BN and C&NW power being combined at the... (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.

After the 1967 merger, the ex-ACL became the premier N-S route for SCL through Richmond, with the old SAL relegated to secondary status. The old SAL line shown here is already showing signs of ne... (more)

A six-unit set of C-Cs running engine light comes down the middle of Cherry Street and across Dooly Street. Citizens have been complaining for years about trains clogging downtown, and relief is ... (more)

I am guessing the crew members on this southbound were just fine having ten-year-old 1735 in the lead on a hazy November morning 40 years ago. That BQ23-7 might have been brand-new, but dislike o... (more)

Heavy on the pulpwood - as usual, for the time - the turn is about to depart Roanoke and head south.