An empty rock train makes the curve off the Sunset Route at Tower 112 and on to the Rockport Sub. The shuttered Lone Star beer brewery sits idle in the background providing an interesting backdro... (more)

A northbound UP freight traverses the old MP bridge across Onion Creek in the waning minutes of light on a gorgeous summer day.

A&M's Monett Turn switches cars into the Georges' mill at Butterfield on their way south back to Springdale.

A&M's Monett Turn heads southbound at Robert's Loop as a thunderstorm starts to build to the north.

Eastern Alabama Railway's turn to Talladega is homeward bound toward Sylacauga, AL with a healthy train from the CSX interchange.

Amtrak's Southwest Chief screams by one of the few active wig-wags in the country on its way to Raton Pass, and today's railfanning objective, the semaphores.

SOU 630 steams southbound and uphill from the crew change at Burnside on its way to Oneida, seen here in the great scenery around Tateville.

Empty coal hoppers for Indiana come under the soon to be replaced Southern searchlights and signal bridge at Junction City. In only a few weeks, the searchlights were gone and this scene altered ... (more)

The 21st Century Steam excursion from Lexington, KY to Oneida, TN highballs the remote town of McKinney on its way south.

The 21st Century Steam excursion from Lexington, KY to Oneida, TN comes to a stop at Burnside, KY for a crew change on the busy NS Rathole.

Once a grand facility to service the finest Southern Railway locomotives, this roundhouse today has been modified to be a warehouse and now sits forlorn and abandoned. The history is there, you j... (more)

ATN's road train to CSX's Boyles Yard in Birmingham stops waiting for the light across NS at 32nd Street. Today's 92 cars of interchange are blocking all of the crossings down the road parallelin... (more)

A NS local comes under the former Southern signal bridge at 32nd Street with a pair of rebuilt SD40-2s and a poorly re-numbered ex-BN unit.

UP's local from the Toyota Tundra truck plant comes back into San Antonio on the former ex-MP Corpus Christi Sub behind a pair of rebuilt SD40-2s.

A CSX stack train passes the old Birmingham passenger station and downtown on its way through town.