Southern SW1 #1007 working at Greensboro, NC in this December 1973 scene. #1007 lives on today at the Knoxville & Holston River Railroad in Knoxville, TN as KXHR 1007 and still sports it Southern ... (more)

Built in February 1945 as Southern FTB 4108C it was converted in August 1958 to heater car HC-58 and renumbered to 960602. I have no clue as to whether or not it still survives.

After a day of pulling mainline excursions from Chattanooga to Cleveland and back, 630 exits the west portal of Missionary Ridge Tunnel along Tennessee Valley Railroad Museums's mainline as it ret... (more)

A Southern Rwy SW1500 and slug await their next work at Knoxville, TN || Sept. 1970

Southern Railway Work Extra #5162 has Southern Railway 250-Ton Industrial Brownhoist wrecker/derrick #903016 in position to clean up the derailment of Conrail loaded flatcar #716074

Sometimes, even after 41 years of railfanning, you see something you've never seen before.

A unique scene is transpiring in Calera as a pair of cranes lift this damaged Norfolk Southern steel hopper off the veteran Southern bulkhead flatcar at the Transportation Services Inc. facility w... (more)

Southern Railway Work Extra #5162 has Southern Railway 250-Ton Industrial Brownhoist wrecker/derricks #903016 and 903026 in position to clean up the derailment of Conrail loaded flatcar #716074

Get a load of this. Giggity. Sad that this thing is back and black already!

the wheel that started it all…
Cast less than a mile away from the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum, this wheel ‘with a pedigree’ as the slogan for Abex used to say still calls Cal... (more)

An old Southern Railway Transfer Caboose waits its fate at Harriman.

It's all-GP at Southern's Columbus yard in Spring 1975, but in a few years GE C-Cs will bump the dwindling number of geeps to support roles, and the turntable and 1922 coaling tower will disappear... (more)

Southern GP38AC 2827 leading a single L&N boxcar at Greesboro, NC || Jan. 1975

Dropping down Arrowhead grade south of Charlottesville. Notice difference in grille between lead unit and trailing FP7s. This train could only be shot in the long days of summer in light.