CSX B36-7 and SD50 bracket an EMD lease fleet SD40 on a northbound at Loachapoka.

BNSF has a menagerie of rebuilds that started life as Second-Gen geeps, and wound up as GP39s of some sort, but this is a renumbered GP39-2 that was among the big group of 39-2s that Santa Fe acqu... (more)

D&R 18 was delivered to East St Louis Junction Railroad in October 1948, but it isn't nearly as venerable as the old locomotive shed at North Dardanelle, which - I believe - was demolished in 2019... (more)

An eastbound D&RGW manifest - running on rights granted as part of UP/MP merger - has just cleared at Bridgeport, allowing a westbound coal empty to resume its trek behind an SD50/C36-7 duo. The ... (more)

A young fellow paces the GP38-2s heading down the middle of Fourth (or was it Fifth?) Street. Train is headed south on UP's McPherson Branch, but it is a new train, put on after UP/MP merger, and... (more)

The daily-except Sunday turn from Jenks works former Midland Valley trackage in West Tulsa.

Starting in late 1979, C&NW took delivery from EMD of 35 GP38-2s that Rock Island had ordered, then cancelled. Three are shown here in a typical application - heading up the former M&StL to Alber... (more)

In the months preceding the short-lived Family Lines 'era', two pairs of Atlanta-Montgomery runthroughs were added to the timetables of the Atlanta & West Point and the Western Railway of Alabama.... (more)

The daily train to Artesia passes the lead to the big Union Camp (at the time) mill south of Prattville, the mill that under new ownership is about the only reason this line still see service in 2... (more)

The merger is recent enough that these geeps still have their Frisco colors, though BN numbers have been assigned. The green was coming, though, and way too quickly. Think wood products were a b... (more)

Back when there were still shippers near downtown, the crew of the eastbound local gets some fresh air as they switch a few cars. That old Chevy (GMC?) truck adds a little color to balance the pl... (more)

A pretty healthy turn is arriving in Opelika after a trip to Lafayette and Roanoke. By this date, I believe there was just a single shipper in Roanoke - a cotton mill - and it would not be long u... (more)

Marion Junction must have been something of a hot spot 'back in the day', with the single main from Selma splitting into three lines headed for Mobile, Demopolis (and points west) and a connection... (more)

A redo in the 1920s turned Central of Georgia's Birmingham-Columbus main from a substandard curvy, hill-and-dale line into a fine piece of railroad. One of the projects included in the rebuild wa... (more)

A Shreveport-bound KCS freight is about to cross the IC's mainline in downtown Jackson. Power is a quartet of GP40-3 rebuilds, led by 4782, which began life as Penn Central GP40 3170, delivered i... (more)