The EARY slips through a tree tunnel outside of Talladega, but not without a sucker hole for some nose light. The EARY road job is returning to Sylacauga with marble slurry empties, plastic pellet... (more)
Western visitor UP 1942 leads the local Birmingham-Talladega turn job.
CSXT Local Freight Train A734-28 tied down in Talladega, AL. On the EARY Branch Line awaiting a new crew before going down to Bemiston, AL. to pick up their cars then head North to Birmingham, AL.... (more)
CSXT Local Freight Train A734-28 makes their way Northbound as they pass through Battle Street in Talladega, AL. About to get onto the CSXT Lineville Sub from the EARY Branch Line & shove their Tr... (more)
CSXT Southbound Local Freight Train A735-24 getting ready to shove their Train down the Eastern Alabama Railway to Bemiston, AL. to Interchange with them then head back North as A734 to Birmingham... (more)
CSXT Freight Train Q647 makes their way Southbound as they pass through Talladega, AL. With a Green & Silver CITX SD40-2 on the point
Seaboard Coast Line U18B #255, with the small fuel tank for branch line service, tied down after the round trip to Roanoke, Alabama in road-switcher service. #255, built December 1973 was later r... (more)
A sharp looking SS GP38-2 leads a southbound freight past the Talladega local and crew.
Eternally Approach At the 84.5 milepost on the NS Anniston District, one can still find a somewhat active semaphore alerting northbound trains to “approach distant” the interlocking wi... (more)
592 comes into the yard at Talladega after cruising past the Bama Junction holdout signal.
Here is a silhouette view of one of two remaining semaphore signals on the former Southern line between Wilton and Anniston. Both signals perpetually show 'approach distant' aspects in advance of ... (more)