The crew running the return leg of the Richand-Columbus turn try to keep the speed high enough to keep the kudzu from grabbing enough axles to stop the train.

U36B 1748 and a pair of SD45s have a Birmingham-bound freight really rolling as they lean into the superelevation right in front of the Warm Springs depot.

Geeps bring the Chicago-Kansas City train out of Springfield on a cold, gray day. This track and the parallel ex-Wabash main were reconfigured/rerouted in the 1990s to reduce auto/train conflicts... (more)

One of the last cab units left on L&N sits at the Boyles engine facility. I saw this unit at Cullman 15 days later, as trailing unit on the northbound long-distance local. It was last time I eve... (more)

When the SD50s and C36-7s were new, it seemed that MP/UP made an effort to run the two new types together, but - for a while, at least - to not mix them with older C-Cs. Here, a trio of new SD50s... (more)

Somehow these new C36-7s have made it all the way to southeast Kansas without even getting any grime on the plows.

Western Railway of Alabama trains 213/214 were run-throughs in cooperation with L&N. Initiated in 1973, they were powered most days by GP38s and U23Bs, with a few GP30/35/40 mixed in. Far more u... (more)

A spotless rebuilt SW9 tows biz car 101 toward the Mississippi River and Council Bluffs beyond. 101 is the oldest car in the fleet, but now wears name 'Selma'.

Arguably the best train-watching spot in Macon was the area behind Terminal Station where the main from Atlanta joined the former CofG lines from eastern Georgia at a spot called Macon Junction. ... (more)

The late afternoon sun blows up the Scotchlite numbers and letters on 3994 as it crosses above Jackson Avenue. A couple of noteworthy structures are included in the photo. In the distance is Cam... (more)

I played 'catch the sun' all weekend on one of my few trips to Tuscaloosa way back when. As the Crescent rolled in from Birmingham, it was overcast as heck. A few minutes later, a brief sweet sp... (more)

Happened on this facility during a weekend jaunt up from Blacksburg. Did not make notes as to its location, but it was in the general vicinity of Elmore, as I recall. Maybe some N&W pros can hel... (more)

N&W 518122 was at one end of a string of about 6-8 wooden cabs shoved onto an unused track in the 'back' of the yard at Radford. Only had a few minutes so just grabbed a couple of shots. Came ba... (more)

L&N eventually acquired a pretty big group of C420s, but not in the usual way. First, L&N purchased 16 new C420s from Alco, then two more were acquired with the takeover of the Tennessee Central,... (more)

L&N GP30 1044, delivered in 1963, was badly damaged in a wreck in 1974. The rebuild resulted in an odd roof profile that combined elements of the original GP30 shape, with the newer Spartan cab s... (more)