The West Point Route
Beginning in 1896, the Atlanta & West Point Rail Road and The Western Railway of Alabama began using a diamond logo to better enhance their advertising to the publ... (more)

A surprising late afternoon G420 starts to leave the "Loveliest Village on Plains", but first must cross over the road to Kiesel Park on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon in Auburn.

A746 is seen passing over a fill in Auburn on a gorgeous December day with a nicely repainted Dash 8 wide cab.

Hot Rail
After a freak snow storm the day before, the bolts of a joint bar seen on the left have broken due to... (more)

Slow and steady
Under the watchful eyes of a signal maintainer, Q619 rolls over this break in the rail at the cautious speed of 10 mph. This break was caused by the very low temperat... (more)

Rail train W016 heads south with GP40-2 #6445 and road-slug #2335. They sure look sharp wearing fresh paint in this 2001 scene. Too bad CSX didn't stick with this fine looking scheme...

With their work in Auburn complete, local A746 heads south for Montgomery.

Local A746 switches at Auburn with a pair of B30-7s as it makes its way south toward Montgomery.

A brand new Ace pulls hard on its train of double stack containers as it prepares to run through Auburn.

A746 rolls through downtown Auburn, while students on the right from one of the University's Architecture classes take some pics of their own.

CSX Q606 approaches the home of Auburn University as it heads north at the "cotton patch crossing". The lead unit (ex-SP 9815) is one of 25 SD70Ms UP inherited from Southern Pacific.

After a meet with Q614 in Opelika, A746 with a pair of classic SD40-2s is seen crossing over N. College St. during a sun lit day in the South.

To the right of the lead unit was the Auburn siding, which ran between Donahue Drive & Gay Street. Several years before this photo, the east end of the siding was removed to a point 300 feet in f... (more)

A partially empty(it had one string of rail) rail train rattles and rolls its way through Auburn on a gorgeous Rocktober afternoon.