CB&Q/BN and SOU/NS long cooperated on a run-through train that ran will pooled power. BN units generally were turned back at Louisville, while Southern units ran as far as Beardstown. For a whil... (more)

The SCL units are E8As also.

Set of power off Southern Crescent Ivy City engine terminal

Southern Railway #154 poses atop Three Rivers Trestle against a glorious sunset at the conclusion of its 2014 operating season. Many thanks to the Rambler crew for their assistance in getting this... (more)

Waiting to go south.

The morning of April 29, 1970 was foggy in Potomac Yard. From the bridge that crossed the middle of the yard I found 2 new Southern SD45s mid-train with a radio car (a boxcar red boxy car) with an... (more)

With RF&P E8A 1001.

Southern Railway train, Extra 3972 North, switching the Nabisco plant located on the old main line just south of the depot. #3972 was built September 1978 and later became Norfolk Southern #3972

B36-7 #3816 leads fellow B36-7 #3815 and GP50 #7060 southbound at Dalton. Serving as mid-train power are B36-7s 3817, 3818, and 3819 (six 4 axle, high adhesion units, including 5 of the 6 B36-7s o... (more)