Flat-scanned from a print purchased at Atlanta railfan show years ago. Photographer unknown. Repowered with EMD prime mover.

The mill being switched by the local provides a photo backdrop, with a junkyard full of Detroit iron in the foreground.

Ex-L&N 3318 straddles the pit in CSX's open-air engine facility. A couple more ex-L&N U23Bs are on the adjacent track, but an Ex-B&O GP30 breaks up the L&N/GE show.

Back when Birmingham skies were often smudgy from the many operating steel mills, BS 251 works in the Ensley yard.

BN power leads an empty coal train across the MP/SSW bridge at Thebes.

The daily Birmingham-Artesia freight trails four refurbished GP40s - a typical power set for the mid 1990s for this train- as it crosses the timber approach to the main steel through-truss span of... (more)

The daily Mobile to Amory freight changes crews in tiny, isolated Magnolia, Alabama. Alabama & Gulf Coast operates this line these days.

A single Espee tunnel motor helps four DRGW sisters with a westbound freight leaving Grand Junction for the emptiness of eastern Utah.

The daily turn from Muskogee came into Tulsa via an ex-MKT line, but after using BNSF trackage rights from Urban Junction to Cherokee Yard, the train is back on home rails as it nears the former M... (more)

Two DYI SD rebuilds lead a GP7 and one of the GP38-2s ordered by CRI&P, but taken by C&NW. This train is headed for Albert Lea, MN and on to the Twin Cities on the ex-M&StL line that I believe ha... (more)

That SCL GP40 in the power set is a sign that Family Lines is becoming an operational reality.

A former N&W SD40-2 won't quite fit into the open area between the old West Point Route coaling tower and vegetation on the opposite side of the CSX main.

Back when mounting/dismounting while underway was still allowed, a crew member hops aboard Georgia 753 after throwing a switch. A colleague can also be seen hanging off a covered hopper back in t... (more)

Exhibiting just about every known form of sheet metal deterioration, 573 works the south end of Chester Yard along Court Street. Many of the structures of the West Point's main shop complex still... (more)