12 year old SCL 1825 would later become CSX 5775

12 year old SCL 1822 is leading train #335, the ICG connection train from East Thomas Yard in Birmingham, south to Waycross. A new crew has just relieved the Lineville Subdivision crew and is awa... (more)

12 year old SCL 1819 is rounding the curve at the north end of Woodland and looking at a clear North Absolute Signal. Manchester and a crew change is 15 minutes away

Four year old SCL 5142 is leading long-distance local south from Manchester to Fitzgerald, GA. The empty pulpwood racks and sand hoppers give an accurate reading about business on this line segme... (more)

Arriving at Manchester Yard with inbound Wadley (AL) turn, a Lineville Subdivision train operated as a Monday thru Saturday assignment with assigned numbers 588 (north) and 587 (south). Train nor... (more)

Train #215 was the daily run-thru on the Western Railway of Alabama from Hamlet, NC (SCL) to New Orleans, LA (L&N). Leading unit SCL 5114 was built February 1978 and later became CSX 3114.

Four SCL GP40's in the "split image" paint scheme are in charge of piggyback train No. 175 sweeping through Millbrook, NC. The train is running as an extra because No. 175 had recently been route... (more)

SCL train #510 is about to pass under the Woodbury Highway and the Southern Railway overpass. #510 was the Lineville Subivision long distance local. The empty woodracks on the siding are for pla... (more)

SCL train #507, the do everything local from Manchester to Fitzgerald, GA, has cleaned out the engine tracks with a GP38-2, GP9 (1000) and a pair of SD45-s (2032 & 2022)

Consecutively numbered GP38-2's SCL 6048, 6049 & 6050 have pull in front of the yard office for a crew change. In a few minutes, these units will begin moving on their journey to Atlanta

Hamlet, NC to New Orleans, LA run-thru train #215 would typically have an all SCL consist westbound, made up of whatever Hamlet could put together to get the train out of the yard. Today, brand n... (more)

L&N #15 "The SouthWind" gets refueled at Louisville Union Station.

SCL 6-axle power was right at home on the Western Division, especially the Lineville, Manchester and Fitzgerald Subdivisions. SCL SD45 # 2016 is awaiting its next call for thru freight duty from ... (more)

SCL train #336 is arriving at Manchester Yard for its usual, late afternoon crew change. Early am the next morning, the new crew will step off this train in the ICG portion of East Thomas Yard in... (more)

Running just ahead of a heavy summer shower is Waycross, GA bound train # 385. Clairmont Springs, early in the history of this segment of railroad, was a resort destination famous for the assortm... (more)