Two lead units and a mid-train DPU work hard to lug their train up the long 1% grade between Notasulga and Loachapoka. Here the train is seen crossing Lee County Road 1.
Former B&O 7601 (delivered January 1977) and former Southern Pacific 9337 (delivered February 1974) lead a northbound train through Loachapoka. The tunnel motor retains its SP paint, with just a ... (more)
Running on the former Western Railway of Alabama, CSX 145 slides around the big curve at Loachapoka as it begins a twelve-mile descent from Piedmont Upland to coastal plain. The leader has been t... (more)
Saw this train - and its unusual power - out my office window in downtown Auburn, but could not leave work (and could not have overtaken 145, anyway), so called my wife, who was at our home right ... (more)
In the early 1990s, this train ran with a pair of B30-7s perhaps 90-95% of the time, but anything could show up, as on this day when two U18Bs - one all bright, and one all stealthy - were a pleas... (more)