A good-looking trio - B23-7/GP38/GP38-2 - is about to pass the NS communication tower at Waverly Parkway as it leads the westbound local out of Opelika. They are just about to cross one of the bi... (more)
I acquired this slide decades ago, and unfortunately have no information on location or photographer. Perhaps Western Pacific fans can offer a location.
A crew member runs ahead to flag a street crossing a few hundred yards north of the Amtrak station. Don't know if this was routine or a temporary response to a faulty crossing gate, but it looks ... (more)
Starting in the late 1980s (as I recall), SP power became very common on trains coming up CSX from New Orleans, but we did not see many GP40P-2s. I watched hundreds of trains through Opelika in t... (more)
Running on the former Western Railway of Alabama, CSX 145 slides around the big curve at Loachapoka as it begins a twelve-mile descent from Piedmont Upland to coastal plain. The leader has been t... (more)