The Norfolk Southern Steam/Excursion Program used Southern FP7A diesels regularly on trips. Sometimes as the main power and sometimes assisting the smaller steam engines. All four A-Units are here... (more)

Three years after the N&W-Southern merger, these two workhorses are still in Southern Ry paint. The paint still looks pretty good on the 3935 but 5211, a GP38-2, is looking a little rough around t... (more)

A pair of GP50s and a B30-7 (technically a B30-7A1) slide into the Gold Ridge (Gold Hill to civilians) siding for a meet with 135. The big wooden mercantile building in the background had been va... (more)

A little bit of variety on this day, as the usual geep-powered long-distance local has a U23B in the lead.

The Piedmont loads passengers at Kemper Street, with the usual cut of intermodal tacked on the rear of the train.

A nice springtime Saturday afternoon; the perfect time to stroll down to the tracks and meander around the site of a derailment the day before. Even for 45 years ago, this was the most relaxed cl... (more)

Southern 2664 shows off its AAR Type-B rucks in a broadside view.

This train ran up the old Central of Georgia main from Albany to Smithville, where it swung onto the branch to Eufaula, AL, its destination. The track is good, so the engineer has his GP35 (a uni... (more)

A former Norfolk Southern GP18 and two more geeps lead a MOW ballast train along one of the oldest railroad lines in the USA. Judging from all those markers showing where defects were detected, b... (more)

During its last weeks of operation, the Ozark turn trundles through the rural emptiness of Barbour County Alabama with just five cars.

Black and white geeps and dead winter vegetation provide little color to the scene as a healthy long-distance local pulls in to work Opelika.

Acting as a mid train DPU one of three GP40X's that the Southern and later NS had on the roster is on a westbound nearing Louisville.

SDs take a train south on the Atlanta-Macon line.

Southern had a big fleet of GP35s, mostly numbered in the 2600s and 2700s, with all but two in that series riding on AAR Type B trucks. There were also 5 or 6 GP35s that were bought and sublettere... (more)

Southern' ex-CofG Birmingham-Columbus, GA main was loaded up with GP38s and GP38-2s in the early 1970s when I first started hanging around the tracks. Other models showed up regularly, but the bo... (more)