Early in the Family Lines era a pair of SCL Hamlet-NOLA run-through trains were established utilizing the Western Railway of Alabama between Atlanta and Montgomery. In the photo, 216 - with the us... (more)

Southern's long-distance local bumps across the Western with the usual assortment of log flats. In the background is a boxcar still in CofG colors, and the hood of a Southern diesel, one of two t... (more)

Returning from a run to Lafayette and Roanoke with a short train, #7 has just entered the WofA main for a short trackage rights hop down the hill to Opelika. The Southern folks are probably eyein... (more)

Southern trains to Savannah and Augusta, as well as Georgia Railroad mixed trains to Camak, had to cross several overpasses between Macon Junction and the river. The bridges, which carried the ... (more)

This former Central of Georgia line once ran from a connection with CofG's Macon-Savannah main at Gordon all the way to an interchange with onetime CofG affiliate Georgia Railroad at Covington. B... (more)

A typical lash-up from the early days of CSX before the flood of GE C40s started arriving, this set is led by an SCL GP40, followed by a GP30 still in B&O blue, and either a B23-7 or B30-7 Seaboar... (more)

Running errands in Springfield, I saw this westbound stuck by a train on the ICG at Starnes Tower. When I got back to Jacksonville, I knew - thanks to the fast running on the former Wabash line -... (more)

A GP works a long cut of single-stack IM cars (was there a clearance issue on SOU back then?) just north of the crossing with SCL's former ACL main, visible at bottom of photo.

Working the wood yards around the Roanoke depot is what I beleve was a turn (a 'flip' in SCL parlance, I think) that originated in Manchester and made a round trip from there to Roanoke (or maybe ... (more)

A pair of early geeps being ferried for local service trail the newer power on a southbound freight coming off the Evansville line and through the Amqui plant. That's the Louisville main off to t... (more)

Prior to the 1967 SCL merger, ACL and SAL competed ferociously for Florida's phosphate traffic. Here, a pair of U36B/Mate sets are westbound with phosphate hoppers on an ex-SAL line, and about to... (more)

An Albany-bound freight waits at Muscogee Junction, the closest thing to a hot spot in Columbus for train-watching. The curving line at left is an industrial lead. Next is the oformer Seaboard A... (more)

UP 189 has served for 25 years, but just has a couple more years left. It is sort of working old home territory as it switches in the former Cotton Belt yard in Jonesboro.

KCS 4738 leads 3 more GP40s and an Artesia, MS freight off the west end of the bridge over the Black Warrior River. The GM&O lettering on the bridge remains today.

A westbound KCS freight moves through the IC crossing bottleneck in Jackson.