Southern 630 passes over Tunnel Boulevard while leading the Missionary Ridge Local

Southern 630 works the 4-car Missionary Ridge Local up the grade at Hunziker's Curve, approaching the Missionary Ridge Tunnel.

Southern 630 hastily enters Grand Junction shortly before the 9:30 AM Missionary Ridge Local leaves for East Chattanooga. In this short time, the crew must wye the locomotive and get all passenger... (more)

Moving at it's top track speed of 10 mph TVRM 225 "Dinner Train is making it's return trip back to Grand Junction after making the westbound run toward Lucey Boiler. The consist is running at... (more)

This location was made famous in recent years for steam running hard up the steepest part of the Missionary Ridge on the Belt Line. Today steam has taken the back seat for diesels, seen here TVRM ... (more)

3170 at 50 The very first SD40 that was purchased by the Southern Railway NÂș 3170 is living Its glorious years in retirement at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum for the publi... (more)

Southern 630 crosses the Chickamauga Creek, returning to Grand Junction with a 4-car train.

SDs take a train south on the Atlanta-Macon line.

Southern had a big fleet of GP35s, mostly numbered in the 2600s and 2700s, with all but two in that series riding on AAR Type B trucks. There were also 5 or 6 GP35s that were bought and sublettere... (more)

Southern' ex-CofG Birmingham-Columbus, GA main was loaded up with GP38s and GP38-2s in the early 1970s when I first started hanging around the tracks. Other models showed up regularly, but the bo... (more)

Southern SDs roll between the Ocmulgee River and Rose Hill Cemetery as they start their trek to Atlanta.

A westbound Southern train heads through the Western Railway of Alabama crossing as SCL Hamlet-NOLA run-through train - with an unusual-for-this-train SD35 leading - waits. That GP9 in the lead o... (more)

The switch crew in the GP38-2 get out of the way and take a breather as SD40-2s head out to the north end to connect to a freight headed for Selma and Birmingham.

GP30s lead a westbound around the big curve at First Avenue. Think the MofW guys missed those little trailers when the companies started putting them up in hotels/motels?

Typical power for a hot Southern Railway intermodal train way-back-when - two GP35s and two GP30s.