RailwayStation.com - Aerial and Satellite Photographs of Southeast US Railroads
The following links will open a new window and take you to selected locations on the Microsoft Terraserver. The resolution varies from 16-meters down to 1-meter per pixel, which is detailed enough to recognize individual railcars and railroad roadbed. Once at the Terraserver site you can zoom, navigate and search for other
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Index
Alabama
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Birmingham, AL - The BNSF (Frisco) Thomas Yard. I-20/59 can be seen crossing the picture at the bottom. The Western part of Malfunction Junction, where I-65 and I-20/59 converge, can be seen in the far right lower corner. Birmingham Southern Railroads former roadbed to Birmingham can be seen snaking between the BNSF yard and the interstate. The rails were pulled up in 1997. Thanks to Dale Burns
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Ensley, AL - Birmingham Southerns 34th Street Yard. Thanks to Dale Burns
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Birmingham, AL - Birmingham Southern's Elliot Yard is seen here just Northeast of Vulcan Materials' Fairfield Slag Plant in the Wylam section of Birmingham, AL. The road running diagonally on the West end of the yard is Tim Mill Road. The wye in the West of the picture was built in 1996. The line to Port Birmingham on the Black Warrior River runs Northwest from the wye. Thanks to Dale Burns
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Chase, AL - North Alabama RR Club. Color Image!
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Huntsville, AL - Depot. - This historic station was built by the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad in 1860. When Union troops captured Hunstville in
1862, it was used as a temporary prison. The station has been restored as part
of a transporation museum. Color image! Note: The freight depot on the north side of the tracks was
badly damaged by fire in 2004. -- I have created a FREE Microsoft Train Simulator model of the station (as it
appeared before restoration) which can be downloaded from our Train Sim
models page at: http://www.railwaystation.com/trainsim/models.html#hunts1
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Decatur, AL - Tennessee River Bridge
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Westfield, AL - Site of the USX Fairfield Works, CSXT/KCS, Norfolk Southern and Birmingham Southern trackage.
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Birmingham, AL - Norfolk Southern's Ernest G Norris Yard.
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Opelika, AL - The Norfolk Southern (former Southern/Central of Georgia) line from Columbus, GA to Birmingham crosses the Atlanta to Montgomery CSX (former Western Railway of Alabama) here. Check out Dale's Alabama Rail Pic's for pictures of the area.
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Montgomery, AL - This is the Old L&N, now CSX yard....Color Image! This yard is right next to the Alabama River which can be
seen in the lower left corner. Union Station is just out of the picture South East of this view, just follow the tracks around the curve of the tracks
and you'll see it. In this shot you'll notice a large overgrown area to the East of the picture surrounded by roads. This is the Western Railway of
Alabama shops that a group called Old Alabama Rails, headed up by Andrew Waldo, is trying to renovate. In this shot you can see the Paint
shop with the shed directly behind it. To the right is the planer mill, and Northeast of that you should be able to make out the coaling tower and
the concrete pads of the roundhouse that was torn down years ago and the pit for the turntable. submitted by Dale Burns
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Montgomery, AL - CSX's (Western of Alabama) Chester Yard is seen here behind Winn Dixie's warehouse. The highway is the Northern Bypass. Color Image! Submitted by Dale Burns
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The Western of Alabama shops area can be seen here. In the picture you see the shed, what's left of the paint shop on the South end
of the shed, the adjacent plainer mill with the roof almost completely gone, crew quarters, and the turntable pit and pads where the roundhouse once stood. The concrete coaling tower is just out of the picture to the North.
Color Image! Submitted by Dale Burns
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Montgomery, AL - Union Station. The depot and shed are in great shape with
a bank, a restaurant, visitors center, and a couple of other businesses
housed in it. The structure in front of the depot is a hotel. Color Image!
Submitted by Dale Burns
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Florida
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Panama City, FL - This is the Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay RR engine shops in Panama City, FL. The shop is the long building shaded on the left side running roughly NW to SE. The four lane road you see just north of the shop is US HWY. 231. A&SAB, or The Bay Line, tracks parallel US 231 for several miles here. submitted by Dale Burns
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Georgia
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Atlanta, GA - Norfolk Southern's Inman Yard (below, left) and CSX Tilford
Yard (above). Color Image!
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Columbus, GA - Norfolk Southern (Central of Georgia) yard downtown. The fuel racks and sanding towers are on the North side of the overpass and are situated in a NW to SE position. The very large brick depot is the structure on the West side of the yard and South of the overpass running North and South. This line runs North West through Opelika, AL, Alexander City, Sylacauga, and on to the huge NS yard in Irondale, AL. submitted by Dale Burns
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Mississippi
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Bay Saint Louis, MS - The upper bridge crossing the peninsula is a highway and the the lower is a railroad bridge. There's apparently an extremely slow speed limit on the bridge. I've watched several long drags cross and have snapped a few pics as well. Also worth noting is the white sand beaches in the area. Thanks to Trent Dowler
North Carolina
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Tennessee
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Virginia
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West Virginia
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