Two high nose GP30 units sit next to the older FP7 units in Asheville. One of these units, 2601, has been restored at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer.

All four Southern Railway FP7 units were in Asheville on this Friday to pull an excursion to Bulls Gap, Tennessee and back. The excursion left Asheville in a steady rain the next morning. This uni... (more)

An NS train heads for Albany behind half the company's B36-7s; all still wearing Southern colors.

A trio of Southern Railway FP7s lead a southbound train on the Shenandoah Line near Luray, rolling past the siding at Vaughn. The train is destined for the National Railway Historical Society conv... (more)

The daily morning "bakery job" local is arriving at Indiana Sugars to switch out loads and empties, on the former Wabash Railroad 4th District Chicago-Montpelier Ohio line, in 1984.

Three Southern Railway SD24's with C&O F7A 7068 painted in an experimental Zebra paint scheme. Two F7As 7004 and 7068 with GP7 5761 and GP9 6141 were so painted. Photo from my collection, no photo... (more)

Southern Railway GP30 2551; SR roster 2525-2644. Only Southern and Norfolk & Western ordered GP30s with high short hoods, but unlike N&W, Southern specified the short hood as front.

That dark, wet section of long hood indicates all is not well with 3819. In fact, it has been shut down since near Leeds, leaving the trailing B36-7 and B30-7 to struggle over the hilly former Ce... (more)

A Southern Railway U30B provides visual evidence of its movement as it switches cars in the yard at Monroe, Virginia.

A B23-7 drills the Southern Railway yard in Monroe, Virginia. The grass growing in the yard tracks is a good indicator that this yard’s future is in jeopardy. Today, a single-track main line and... (more)

Southern Railway wrecker 903018 rests in the yard in Monroe, Virginia. This appears to be a classic Industrial Brownhoist crane that was given a new cab and machinery enclosure by the Southern.

Sailing high above the James River, a northbound Southern Railway piggyback train is stretched along the trestle over the James River in Lynchburg, Virginia. Southern’s GP50’s were the only on... (more)

A single SW1500 shares the engine facility with 10-12 B-B road units. The recently-filled turntable pit occupied the area of bare ground just in front of 2590.

SOU train coming of Huey P Long Bridge at East Bridge Jct