The north end of the line for the TASD is the Port of Chickasaw, serving multiple chemical companies & liquid bulk storage facilities, including BWC Terminals being switched in this photo.
Three SDs and a GP38 head for Gadsden and Gulf States Steel with a unit train of pellets. That's the former SL-SF/AT&N bridge in the foreground.
A GP38 runs caboose-light through Chickasaw after working customers on the far north side of Mobile. That's BN/SLSF/AT&N in the foreground.
With fog from Mobile Bay, the usual Deep South summer haze, and emissions from huge nearby paper mills, it can (or could back then) be tough to get even slight color in the sky. This day was shap... (more)
A Southern freight - with three GP35s and a single GP30 - gets to Chickasaw just ahead of the shadows. All those AAR Type-Bs make the GP30 with its Blombergs the oddball in this scene. That is B... (more)
Just a few days after getting their new BN numbers, four unrepainted Frisco diesels - a trio of GP38s and a U25B - take the daily train north our of Mobile.