Just for a few moments, the sun finds a hole in the clouds and lights a trio of local service locomotives in UP's Russellville yard. Leading is 2252, which started life on DT&I, followed by GMTX ... (more)

This big GE heading down the hill on the D&R means a unit tie train for BNSF must be almost ready to head out.

D&R 16, still working at age 73, takes a southbound train down the hill toward the yard at North Dardanelle. The crest of the line is about three-fourths of a mile behind 16. There is a bit of a... (more)

On a hazy, humid Alabama summer afternoon, a quartet of Amtrak's big SDPs slides to a stop in Montgomery with the southbound Floridian. A pair of SDPs was typical, with an occasional trio showing... (more)

A lone SD9 flying green flags heads west with a mainline local. This is an unusual shot in that, by 1972, Southern's six SD9s and lone SD7 (all inherited from C of G) were generally in captive ser... (more)

DT&I 411 teams with a GT SD40 to take a local south at Delta. The diesels have just climbed the sloping track in the foreground after delivering a few cars to the small yard that served as interc... (more)

Coal empties on the Van Buren Sub usually have two units up front, and a solo DPU, just like loads. Today, a single unit led the empties north past Russellville local/yard power, with two GEs in ... (more)

Southern 5119 is power for a work extra sent to Pine Mountain to clean-up a wreck in the curving cut on the north side of downtown.

On the way to work industries in Henry, a Chessie GP38 and a GP9 - still in C&O blue - top the hill just north of Putnam. Pretty soon new GP15Ts will bump these older units from this job.

For a few months in the 1990s, the only trains west of Opelika on the former CofG Birmingham main were long-distance locals 45/46, which ran the Childersburg-B'ham segment via other NS lines, as t... (more)

For a few months in the mid-1990s, the only trains west of Opelika on the former CofG Birmingham main were long-distance locals 45/46, which covered the Childersburg-B'ham segment via other NS lin... (more)

Just a few days after getting their new BN numbers, four unrepainted Frisco diesels - a trio of GP38s and a U25B - take the daily train north our of Mobile.

KCS GP40s bracket an NS GP38 at the head end of a southbound intermodal train as it passes the turret of the former Southern station in Tuscaloosa.

Empty and loaded coal trains - each led by one of L&N's 1200-class SD40s - pass on the double track just north of Corbin. Don't know what power is trailing 1239, but 1232 is assisted by 3,000hp C... (more)

Atlanta-bound run-through train 214 passes the old WofA coaling tower (still there in 2015) and bangs across the double crossing with Southern.