On a sunny afternoon in November 1969, Southern #4501 is crossing the trestle at Cooks Springs, Alabama, en route to Birmingham. (Martin O'Toole photo)
On a crisp winter's day in February 1968, Southern #630 gets underway with a Heart of Dixie Rail Club steam excursion for Opelika, Alabama. (Jim Thorington photo)
After a visit to Birmingham, the Flying Scotsman is seen passing by Sloss Furnace on a foggy morning in November 1969 en route to Meridian, Mississippi. (Jim Thorington photo)
With its signboard reading "Stadium", PC #846 takes on passengers following a football game at Birmingham's Legion Field, home of the legendary "Iron Bowl" (Barney L. Stone photo, Krambles-Peterson Archive)
Emerging from the shadow cast by a downtown building, PCC #841 is outbound on route #25 East Lake. (Barney L. Stone photo, Krambles-Peterson Archive)
PCC #842 has completed the run to East Lake on Route #25 and is about to depart 83rd Street and First Avenue on route #2 West End Express.(Barney L. Stone photo, Krambles-Peterson Archive)
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'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)
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)
SAL #18, the Cotton States Special with Engine #260, a 4-8-2 Class M-2, gets underway at Birmingham Terminal for Atlanta on October 26, 1946. (Frank E. Ardrey, Jr. photo)
Parked beside the Seaboard's freight house in downtown Birmingham, a mulitple-unit set of new Orange Blossom Special E-units is on public display in this scene from December 8, 1938. (Tom Lawson collection)
SAL's Local with E7 #3023 departs Birmingham Terminal in this beautifully framed shot taken on July 8, 1965.
(Dennis Conniff photo)
On a wintry day in 1963, E8 #3058 whisks the Silver Comet by the waiting Local at Wellington, Alabama. The facing double-red signal protects SAL’s crossing with L&N’s Alabama Mineral Sub between Gadsden and Anniston.SOUTHERN
Double-headed Mountains #1461 and #1483 bring the Kansas City-Florida Special across "Puzzle Switches" on their last lap into Birminghamon Terminal Station on November 24, 1946.(Frank E. Ardrey, Jr. photo)
Southern #4108 leads a quartet of FT's in classic A-B-B-A formation with Atlanta freight #58 past the train order office at Weems, Alabama, on March 21, 1948. (Frank E. Ardrey, Jr. photo)
With morning sun reflecting off her nose, steam-generator equipped F3 #6704 is glorious in her passenger attire as she storms past Avondale Yard with the northbound Pelican in this scene from May 23, 1948. (Frank E. Ardrey, Jr. photo)
A five-unit Birmingham Southern lash-up with SW1001 #224 in the lead is seen in the vicinity of U. S. Steel’s Fairfield Works and Vulcan Material’s slag yard. (Alton B. Lanier photo)
US Steel #126 is pulling pots at the Fairfield Works #3 furnace near Ensley. (Tom Lawson photo)
US Pipe & Foundry train with five units crosses a trestle near Boyles. (Tom Lawson photo)
Woodward Engine #41 is seen switching a cut of ore cars in this undatedscene from the late 1950's. (Jim Gibson photo)
On an early afternoon in the summer of 1958, two railroad workers pause for conversation beside SAL E4 #3008 while Seaboard’s Terminal switcher, left, and Southern E8 #6914 are napping. Things soon will pick up, however, as the station’s “afternoon rush” of passenger trains is about to get underway. (J. Parker Lamb photo)
In this scene from May 1964, the Southern's northbound Pelican is about to depart from Track 8 for Washington behind E6 #2802, while to the right, two Frisco E-units are resting up from their morning run from Memphis with the Sunnyland. (Jim Thorington photo)
On August 25, 1946, Frank Ardrey snapped #47, with E6 #2800 still in its original colors and lettered for “The Southerner,” backing out of Terminal Station en route to New Orleans. (Frank E. Ardrey, Jr. photo)
The Orange Blossom Special Steam Engine #3749. Now permanently parked alongside the active tracks that run thru Church Street Station.
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