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Oliver Dunlap, carman - WofA
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Oliver Dunlap (right), carman, welding in the Montgomery Shops assisted by Bubba Ware (left) and an unknown helper (center) Mr. Dunlap died in May, 2002.
Credit: Oliver Dunlap/Old Alabama Rails Collection
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Atlanta and Montgomery Wreck Derricks clear sulfur train cars at Newnan, Georgia, February 22, 1968. Credit: Courtesy of the Times-Herald of Newnans Georgia/Oliver Dunlap Collection. |
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J.T. Norton, switchman - WofA
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Western of Alabama Shops employee luncheon. Open photo for caption identifying some of the participants (thanks to Bud Sweatt!).
Credit: J.T. Norton/Old Alabama Rails Collection
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J.T. Norton (the second man in on the boxcar) switches cars over the scale in front of the tower controlling Chester Yard, a mile north of the WofA Shops. This tower was demolished by CSX in the fall of 2003.
Credit: J.T. Norton/Old Alabama Rails Collection |
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Leon Hammond, Notasulga, Alabama - WofA
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A snapshot of the old depot at Notasulga, now long gone.
Credit: Leon Hammond/Old Alabama Rails Collection
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This cast concrete water tower served the Western of Alabama in Notasulga. It was built with a storage shed underneath with room for a one-man track vehicle. See the H.H. Foreman Album for another shot of this tower taken in 1925.
Credit: Leon Hammond/Old Alabama Rails Collection
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William (Billy) Hartley, painter - WofA
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This photograph from the 1930’s or 40’s is of a Western of Alabama track gang at Boylston, Alabama, right out of the WofA Chester Yards in Montgomery on the way toward Atlanta. The foreman, far right, is O.M. Miller, Billy Hartley’s former father-in-law.
Credit: William Hartley/Old Alabama Rails Collection
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As a young man with a new camera, Billy Hartley caught this train, very possibly the Crescent, as it entered Montgomery from Atlanta on its way to New Orleans. It is pictured at the north end of Chester Yards at Boylston.
Credit: William Hartley/Old Alabama Rails Collection
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Eldo O. Cooke, conductor - L&N
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Eldo Cooke, Montgomery resident and former conductor for the L&N, pauses before beginning duties on one of the L&N’s old heavyweight cars in the 1940’s. This is before the streamlined era had entered full swing.
Credit: Eldo O. Cooke/Old Alabama Rails Collection
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W. F. "Flynn" Murphy, trainmaster - WofA
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Flynn Murphy was a long-time railroad man on the Western of Alabama, as switchman and trainmaster, whose father also worked for the WofA. This photograph, which we believe was taken during the 1920’s or 30’s, is of the elder Murphy on an ancient track-ballasting car.
Credit: Flynn Murphy/Old Alabama Rails Collection
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Bud Sweatt, Wrecker Foreman - WofA
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Wrecking crew’s time of fellowship in the wrecker dining car, after mainline is clear and trains running. This dining car, actually WofA crew car 7509, former truss rod coach 104, still exists in much-deteriorated condition in New Orleans, Louisiana. Left to right: Oliver Dunlap, Harry Taylor, Dee Amond, Bud Sweatt, Frank Sears, Jessie Harper, Mr. Terry, Mr. Berry. Amond, Terry, and Berry, members of Atlanta Wrecking Crew. Sears, Dragline Operator. All others, members of Montgomery Wrecking Crew. Credit: Bud Sweatt
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Montgomery Wrecking Derricks, Numbers One and Two, setting new steel bridge spans at Pintlala Creek, Selma Division. WofA Wrecking Derrick Number Two is in good condition in New Orleans, Louisiana. Credit: Bud Sweatt
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WofA and Georgia RR pile drivers building new trestle at Ft. Decatur, after washout caused by flood on February 25th, 1961. Two A&WP FP7 locomotives and a Georgia RR mail car of the Piedmont Limited were involved. The WofA pile driver is in the collection of the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, Georgia. Credit: Bud Sweatt
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Montgomery and Atlanta Wrecking Derricks at F. Decatur washout in 1961. Left to Right: Bud Sweatt and Fred Dover, Wreck Foremen, standing on newly built trestle. Credit: Bud Sweatt
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Atlanta (left) and Montgomery (right) Derricks clearing derailment of seventeen-car sulfur train at Newnan, Georgia, February 22, 1968. Credit: Bud Sweatt
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