The daily Hamlet-NOLA run-through freight heads for Montgomery where it will move on to L&N rails.

Hamlet-NOLA run-through train 215 - operating as Extra SCL 1610 on this day - rolls across 10th Street. Construction on an overpass has started, and in a few months this at-grade crossing will be... (more)

In the months preceding the short-lived Family Lines 'era', two pairs of Atlanta-Montgomery runthroughs were added to the timetables of the Atlanta & West Point and the Western Railway of Alabama.... (more)

Initiated in 1973, train 215 was probably the hottest freight ever to run on the West Point Route. Originating in the big Hamlet yard, 215 ran to Atlanta via the old SAL, then over the West Point ... (more)

On a dreary February day forty years ago, the usual quartet of GP40s brings Hamlet-New Orleans run-through #215 down the WofA. The train started its journey on the former SAL, and will make the l... (more)

As the daily Hamlet-New Orleans run-through train approached Saugahatchee Road, two ladies pulled onto the crossing and, upon seeing the train, came to a full stop. They looked at each other for ... (more)

SCL's Hamlet-New Orleans run-through train 215 ran day-after-day-after-day with solid sets of GP40s in the 1970s, but on this day a U36B has found a spot.

On a busy afternoon in Opelika, a local resident finally gets across the tracks on her way home from shopping downtown. Right to left are train 215, an SCL run-through from Hamlet with a WP caboos... (more)

After waiting north of the signal, Hamlet-New Orleans Train 215 has the OK to start moving again. The crew will ease down the hill through downtown Opelika, cross the Southern, then take the sidin... (more)

Photo by Deborah Barber

SCL run-thru train 215 originated in Hamlet, then picked up a A&WP locomotive in Atlanta for the run to Montgomery where it will switch to L&N for the trip to New Orleans. Out of sight at the rear... (more)

Before the standardization of the piggyback business, it was routine to see loaded piggyback flats in regular manifest freights, such as Hamlet, NC to New Orleans, LA run-thru #215