Louisville & Nashville GP38-2 #4117, one of 7 units leading Atlanta & West Point Railroad train #215, passes the depot. #4117 was built March 1973 on order #72635. Unit later became Seaboard Syst... (more)

Seaboard System GP40 #6717, serving as power for the Opelika Switcher, returning to the depot to work the Southern Railway interchange and knock off for the day. #6717 was built February 1967 an... (more)

Q611 heads south through Opelika on a (finally) sunny Saturday morning.

Southern Railway train 1st #45 heads across the fill at the Waverly Parkway underpass. 45 & 46 were the long-distance locals that worked from Columbus, GA to Sylacauga, AL.

Two Southern Belle ACes lead a ballast train up the Norfolk Southern P-Line towards Birmingham.

Dusty SDs (a 45 and a 35) lead an eastbound freight out of Opelika and toward Columbus, GA.

An SD40-2 fills-in for the usual second B30-7 on the Montgomery-bound return leg of local 746.

Southern's weekday turn out the former CofG to Roanoke and Lafayette has almost completed its round-trip back to its point of origin in Opelika. It was an interesting operation that utilized two m... (more)

Western of Alabama's local train 6 waits at the crossing as an eastbound freight rolls by on Southern's former Central of Georgia Birmingham-Columbus, GA mainline. The crossing was not interlocke... (more)

The West Point Route (A&WP and WofA) between Atlanta and Montgomery was dominated by GP40s/40-2s for many years. Starting around 1967, WP/GA upgraded their fleet of early geeps with 40s/40-2s. W... (more)

Former Southern GP50 leads former Conrail GP40-2 as they power the long-range local towards home in Columbus, GA.

Former L&N 4107 - delivered March 1973 - has new number and small CSXT stenciled below cab window, but pretty much still looks 'all-L&N' otherwise.

Ex-N&W SD40-2 teams with ex-Southern GP38-2 to move the long-distance local west. Both units were delivered in 1974, with the same road numbers as in the photo.

Cotton Belt GP60 teams with UP C41-8W and tunnel motor to drag a northbound up the grade through downtown Opelika.

A good-looking trio - B23-7/GP38/GP38-2 - is about to pass the NS communication tower at Waverly Parkway as it leads the westbound local out of Opelika. They are just about to cross one of the bi... (more)