A standard cab lead Q679 heads out of Auburn on a sunny September afternoon. This train is usually ran on the Lineville Subdivision but every so often does show up on the A&WP south of LaGrange, ... (more)

To connect rails of differing size the compromise joint was the primary tool for the job. But in today’s environment of a ... (more)

Georgia 300 and a couple of L&N cars sit on a scruffy siding a few hundred feet north of the Auburn University stadium. The big wheels are in town to watch Auburn thrash Florida State. I believe ... (more)

On a hazy, gray winter morning, #6 - the Montgomery to West Point turn - rolls through Auburn.

On a dreary February day forty years ago, the usual quartet of GP40s brings Hamlet-New Orleans run-through #215 down the WofA. The train started its journey on the former SAL, and will make the l... (more)

With his work at Auburn complete, local A746 continues on south toward Montgomery. Sadly, this classic scene once known as "the cotton patch" at Chadwick Lane has succumbed to an RV park that I co... (more)

On a bright sunny and dry day, which is actually becoming a rarity in the South these days, Q614 rounds the curve as it heads into Auburn with 75 cars and over 4400 feet of train destined for Nort... (more)

War Damn Caboose!!!
Painted up in the colors of Auburn University, a caboose from the International Car Company of Kenton, Ohio will soon welcome tailgaters for the upcoming football ... (more)

The sun rises through the clouds and over the former Western Railway of Alabama trackage as it signals the beginning of another day of train movement along the CSX mainline. Photo taken at a gr... (more)

As the daily Hamlet-New Orleans run-through train approached Saugahatchee Road, two ladies pulled onto the crossing and, upon seeing the train, came to a full stop. They looked at each other for ... (more)

The daily L&N run-through passes the hotbox detector just west of Auburn.

8165 may still be around, but lots of other stuff in this photo is gone or significantly altered. The signals were removed years ago, the wood-related traffic is mostly gone, the pole line was re... (more)

Back in the pre-C40-8 1980s, CSX used small B-Bs (often U18Bs and GP16s) to pick up sand loads at the pits east of Montgomery and head for Williams Brothers in Atlanta. Some days it was quite a l... (more)

After successfully climbing the Notasulga hill, now today’s Q612 is on easy street as it emerges from a tree-lined tunnel a... (more)