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Two KCS GP-40-2's idling in KCS's Tuscaloosa Yard; the only KCS yard in Alabama. The bridge overhead is 15th St. The County Jail is directly behind the photo, where the yard ends and a single track diverges--the main heads east (and a little north) to Birmingham, and the other heads east and south across the interlock.
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Snow!?! Yes, only about once every 3 or 4 years in Tuscaloosa. This is a KCS run through on NS's main in Tuscaloosa. (This is a train that runs on both NS and KCS tracks. There are KCS and NS tracks in Tuscaloosa, but NO complete trains interchange here. These run through trains join a KCS main in Mississippi, not the KCS branch line in Tuscaloosa.)
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4 KCS locomotives are parked near 3rd street in Tuscaloosa. These engines are parked on the Goodrich lead. The rubble/old wood in the bottom left is where KCS dumps old peices of the tressle after it is worked on.
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One of the old GP-10's pulls a local past the parked Extra West. This was shot from the 6th street bridge, facing North. The siding the local is on merges back into the main just arround the curve, then the Goodrich lead splits off the main. Just past there, the tressle over the Black Warrior River begins. The line runs to Artesia, MS.
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Here is a photo of the KCS tressle across the Black Warrior River between Tuscaloosa and Northport, Al. You can see the Levy under construction in this picture--it is now complete and protects downtown Northport from flooding. It was built durring the summer of 1999.
Also notice the steel span in the picture. This is where the bridge actually crosses the river. The bridge is high enough that tug boats and other large vessles can pass benieth it.
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In this photo you can see how the tressle is constructed.
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This is the other side of the tressle from the above photos. This is looking North, towards Northport. The tressle curves arround downtown. Also note there are a few steel sections.
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This is a photo of the Tuscaloosa side of the river.
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The track buckled in the summer heat, causing this derailment. The crew was OK after this mishap durring the summer of 1998. Photo by the Tuscaloosa News. The derailment happened in Coker, which is just west of Tuscaloosa.
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KCS signage in Ethelsville, Al. which is between Tuscaloosa, Al and Columbus, Ms.
KCS uses control points on the Tuscaloosa Subdivision main line; the line is dark territory, but the control points allow more than one train to be on the line at a time. (Is this a type of TWC? DTC?).
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A KCS train approaches Hackberry Lane. The signal box is KCS's and is tied in to NS's signal box so that a train on KCS's tracks or NS's tracks (abotu 75 feet appart) will activate both KCS and NS crossing gates at Hackberry Lane.
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This was photographed at the abandon tower at the KCS/NS diamond.
