This handsome 2-8-2, number 430, was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Atlanta & West Point Railroad. It had a total engine and tender weight of 610,000 lbs., and a tractive force of 6... (more)

A Northbound West Point Route freight heads past the depot in downtown Auburn, Alabama lead by A&WP 425 in July of 1952. Photo by J. Parker Lamb.

Atlanta & West Point #280 leaves Auburn, Alabama in October of '52. The A&WP owned two of these Lima-built Pacific's, the #280 and the #290, and while the #280 is long gone, the #290 still survive... (more)

Train 37, The Southern Railways Crescent Limited passenger train, lead by A&WP 290 kicks up dust as it accelerates passed Atlanta's McPherson neighborhood behind 290 in 1946 illustrates on todays ... (more)

Guarding over a long gone connection, the signal for Control Point Oakland Junction still stands. The signal guards the old West Point Belt Line that I was standing on, which was constructed has a... (more)

A crew uses a steam-powered wrecker to clean-up a minor derailment just off North Court Street.

Two GP40s and two first generation geeps are cresting the hill just east/north of Opelika. From this point forward they will mostly be dropping as they head for the Chattahoochee River at West Po... (more)

Atlanta & West Point GP40 #731, assigned as power for the local switcher, idles behind the depot. #731, built in May 1970, later became Seaboard System/CSX 6651

Atlanta & West Point GP7 #575 on the Hulsey Yard service track with the batteries and battery door removed. #575 was built October 1952

No business this day for Auburn University - last shipper left in the downtown area - so the southbound (westbound in pre-CSX days) local bops past at a good clip.

Built by EMD in January 1969, Atlanta & West Point GP40 729 was photographed in Social Circle, Georgia, in April 1975. This locomotive would eventually become Seaboard System 6649, and then CSX T... (more)

AWP 290 running from Atlanta to Macon Ga.

That SCL GP40 in the power set is a sign that Family Lines is becoming an operational reality.

Exhibiting just about every known form of sheet metal deterioration, 573 works the south end of Chester Yard along Court Street. Many of the structures of the West Point's main shop complex still... (more)