Hey, when you go out to watch that operating vintage locomotive always remember these guys who sweated and toiled in obscurity barring over an engine and replacing a power assembly to allow you to... (more)

L&N 1315 puts on a show only a ALCO can provide getting her train under way again near Oak Ridge, Tenn.

L&N 1315 poses with N&W caboose 555532 at a night photo shoot at the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum in Tennessee.

Night Photo shoot

Black diamonds roll south on the ever busy KD Sub. The colored balls on the river are lanes on the Oak Ridge rowing course on Melton Hill Lake, which attracts rowers from all over the US and Canad... (more)

Restored L&N C420 1315 works in revenue freight service at the former K-25 plant on a blue sky Saturday morning in East Tennessee. Later in the day the 1315 and sister SARM C420 #2064 would take t... (more)

Restored L&N 1315 works in revenue freight service at the former K-25 plant on a blue sky Saturday morning in East Tennessee. Later in the day the 1315 and sister SARM C420 #2064 would take these ... (more)

1315 is reflected in the calm waters of Poplar Creek during the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum's 2009 ALCo Photo Freight Weekend.

Not much is left of Vintage Locomotives Inc. SD18 #7310 as it is being torched at the Southern Appalachia Rail Museum facility. VLIX 7310 began life as C&O 1810 and then 7310 until it was sold off... (more)

An Oglebay Norton RS3 sits at the Southern Appalachia Rail Museum in Oak Ridge, TN.

No mistaking that face for anything but a GP30. It would appear that the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum will be ensuring that this unit lives on for others to enjoy.

Spouting a signature cloud of ALCo smoke, 1315 performs a runby for photographers at Southern Appalachia Railway Museum's ALCo Photo Freight Weekend.

Steve Barry's photo freight weekend

Kickoff of the very popular night photo freight session began at Wheat