Looks like L&N 543 is about to get a little attention.

L&N slug set heads back to L&N's S&NA yard after delivering a transfer to ICG at West End. S80m was L&N's designation for Alco switchers repowered with 567s. The slug was converted from an L&N R... (more)

A pair of SD9s bracket Southern's only SD7 as they bring a transfer by what's left of the Southern station on their way to Norris Yard in Irondale. The Crescent was daily north of Birmingham,but ... (more)

One crew member waits in SW1 15, while his colleague uses Alco 18 to shove cars into one leg of the Union pacific wye. A third crew member is getting cars on the other leg of the wye (dropped ear... (more)

A southbound on CSX's ex-SCL/ACL/AB&C main crosses the former Southern/CofG line at North Oglethorpe.

The WofA local waits just short of the crossing as an eastbound Southern train (I think it's 136) comes over Second Avenue and around the curve.

White flags in place. a work extra clumps across the Western Railway of Alabama mainline at Opelika on a hazy summer day in Alabama nearly 40 years ago. In the background, a Southern caboose with ... (more)

The mixed train to Macon (there's a coach tacked on the rear of the freight cars) heads out of Camak yard. It will be followed by the coal train headed for Georgia Power's Plant Harlee near Mille... (more)

In pre-G&W days, the homebound leg of LR&W's Little Rock turn climbs out of the Arkansas River valley behind a C420/geep combo.

Northbound grain empties thunder by the idle Sallisaw switcher power. The thunder will really begin when the train hits the UP (ex-MP) crossing just ahead.

A crewman flags the Croghan run across Arlington Road (I think) on its return down the branch to Johns Island and the ex-ACL mainline. Once there, they will rejoin the rest of their train - the h... (more)

On a sunny summer afternoon, 615's power is entering the big curve at Notasulga. It's 1998, but you wouldn't guess it from the locomotives, which include five conventional cabs (four of them EMDs... (more)

A member of MKT's last batch of new GP38-2s - delivered in 1976 - leads the St Louis train out of Parsons. Just a little way ahead the train will peel off to the northeast, leaving the KC main be... (more)

A train made-up in the Marshalltown yard heads for Minnesota on the former M&StL line. The power includes two of C&NW's rebuilt early SDs, a GP7, and one of the GP38-2s ordered by Rock Island but... (more)

Typical mid-1980s coal train power, a CNW SD40-2 leads two UP SD40-2s with a train of Powder River loads across the river and into Illinois. The SD50s and 60s were just around the corner, as were... (more)