ATLANTIC COAST LINE


A brace of ACL F-units is resplendent in original purple and silver paint in this scene from ACL's Elyton Yard from the mid-1950s. (Jim Thorington photo)

ACL Freight #210 with Engine #821, a 2-8-2 Class M-2s, arrives at Elyton Yard on June 13, 1948. 
(Frank E. Ardrey, Jr. photo)

A SCL freight off the ex-ACL Western Division passes through downtown Birmingham enroute to Boyles Yard in 
this scene from the early 1970's.  U36B #1789 leads the five-unit power lashup. (Lyle Key photo)

CENTRAL OF GEORGIA

  Central of Georgia Engine #706 passes the junction at Weems, Alabama on August 1, 1948 with a troop train for 
Ft. Benning Georgia. (Frank E. Ardrey, Jr. photo)

A brace of Central of Georgia freight units with F3 #907 on the point backs off their train at East Thomas Yard in
this photo from the late 1950's. (J. Parker Lamb photo)


IC E8 #4026 leads the westbound Seminole into Opelika, Alabama in February 1968. (Marvin Clemons photo)

   FRISCO

Frisco's Kansas City - Florida Special pulls into Birmingham Terminal behind streamlined Hudson #1061 on September 28, 1946. (Frank E. Ardrey, Jr. photo)


 Frisco #138, a hotshot manifest en route to Memphis, is captured in this nicely framed photo just north of
Jasper, Alabama in 1964. (J. Parker Lamb photo)

On a picture-perfect day in September 1965, Frisco's Memphis-bound Kansas City - Florida Special passes by the Carbon Hill coaling tower with E8 #2020, nicknamed Big Red, in the lead. (Lyle Key photo)

GULF, MOBILE & OHIO


Chugging away as only ALCO's can, GM&O RS-1's #1108 & 1124 smoke it up at Tuscaloosa Yard in March 1972. 
(Lyle Key photo)



In the early 1960's, GM&O went to a black & white "zebra-striped" color scheme.  In August 1965, GP35 #605 leads a set of "zebra-stripes" through Bessemer on L&N trackage rights en route to Birmingham.   (Jim Gibson photo)

ILLINOIS CENTRAL



IC's Seminole, led by Mountain #2400, is cresting Adamsville Hill in this scene from March 26, 1950.
(Hugh Comer photo, David Salter collection)


Catching the early morning sun, CofG #811 leads the Florida-bound Seminole into Terminal Station in 1968,
a year before the train's discontinuance. (Jim Singleton photo)


An IC transfer job with two GP's and a caboose passes through Puzzle Switches near Sloss Furnace in April 1963.      (Jim Thorington photo)

LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE


In this scene from the late 1940's or early '50's, L&N Mikado #1805 is steaming it up as she passes by the manual interlocking at Black Creek Junction with a fast freight. (Conniff Railroad collection)

 
Looking lovely in her original blue & cream outfit, E6 #772 sits with L&N Local #3 at Birmingham's L&N Station on a sunny day in 1957.  (Ed Dismukes photo) 

A southbound L&N freight with F7 #845 in the lead crosses over the Southern main line at 13th Street interlocking
in October 1963. (Jim Thorington photo)