Molena had only about 400 residents in 1976, but it must have had a pretty decent cafe to persuade 43's crew to stop, since it was less than 10 miles on to the metropolis of Woodbury, population 1... (more)
If memory serves, by the time of this photo, service on this line - which had just a few years left - was Griffin-Columbus M-W-F, with return trips (train 44) on T-Th-Sat.
After leaving his train of empty bulkhead cars on the 'main' in the foreground, the engineer gingerly shoves cars up the steeply inclined lead to a small wood yard. The GP30 looks pretty clean, b... (more)
One of the Southern agents in Opelika either had a warped sense of humor, or maybe just did not like me. Whatever the reason, he on multiple occasions gave incorrect info about what trains were w... (more)
A trio of SD40-2s leads an eastbound freight past the last remnant of the passenger platforms that once ran down the north and west sides of the shared (CofG/SOU/NS and WofA/FL/SBD/CSX) Opelika de... (more)