Returning from a run to Lafayette and Roanoke with a short train, #7 has just entered the WofA main for a short trackage rights hop down the hill to Opelika. The Southern folks are probably eyein... (more)

Southern trains to Savannah and Augusta, as well as Georgia Railroad mixed trains to Camak, had to cross several overpasses between Macon Junction and the river. The bridges, which carried the ... (more)

This former Central of Georgia line once ran from a connection with CofG's Macon-Savannah main at Gordon all the way to an interchange with onetime CofG affiliate Georgia Railroad at Covington. B... (more)

A GP works a long cut of single-stack IM cars (was there a clearance issue on SOU back then?) just north of the crossing with SCL's former ACL main, visible at bottom of photo.

An eastbound Milwaukee Road freight with a pair of leased Southern SD24's hugs the banks of the Mississippi River between Pleasant Valley and Le Claire. The SD24's eventually received Precision N... (more)

NS 198 is the southbound half of what may be the most important pair of trains on this stretch of line, but it still has to cool its heels at Smithville until second class train C87 - headed from... (more)

The NS (Central of Georgia) turn to Lafayette (Trains 7/8 in pre-CSX days) used about two miles of rights over the CSX (Western Railway of Alabama) between Opelika and Roanoke Junction. Here, #7 ... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

When completed in 1833, the 136-mile Charleston & Hamburg was the longest railroad in the world. By 1977 most activity on the Charleston end had shifted away from these tracks in the downtown are... (more)

A Roger Puta photograph

A Roger Puta photograph

A rare SOU NW5 was in the storage dead line at Southern Railway Chattanooga facility

As a carload of excursion riders looks on, one of the Southern’s B23-7’s stands on a side track in Manassas, waiting for Monday to get back to work.

Alexandria Action 2 –The Southern Crescent is eight miles into its 1154 mile, 25 hour journey to New Orleans as it rolls out of Alexandria’s passenger station. An empty excursion train lead by... (more)

Engine Change. We are in South Amboy, New Jersey in 1982, but these locomotives could very well have made a similar hand-off of the Southern Crescent in Washington, DC in years past. After the S... (more)