With their shrouded replacements looming alongside, the doomed searchlight signals at North Rockwood guide NS train 197 southward.

UP/CSX/BNSF consist sweeps around the curve at Hartselle.

CSX train Q125 races south across the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River during peak fall colors.

An eclectic A-B-B-A-A consist composed of TCRM's cab units and two NERR (ex-BNSF) B40-8Ws leads an excursion from Nashville to Cookeville on the former TC mainline.

This former Louisiana & Arkansas ten wheeler, a 1913 Baldwin, is nicely displayed as a faux TC locomotive in downtown Cookeville.

Nashville's commuter rail service gears up for the Friday afternoon rush as a trainset shoves out from the Nashville & Eastern shops and towards the station in Lebanon.

CSX train Q649 heads south behind BNSF and NS power.

NS and TVRM partnered up for a weekend of “Steel City Rail Adventure” excursions out of Birmingham, AL. This trip ran to Wilton via the AGS South and 3B North Districts.

The 630 blasts under the abandoned ex-ACL trestle in downtown Bessemer as it leads a “21st Century Steam” excursion between Birmingham and Wilton, AL.

Southern 630 leads an excursion train deadhead move south for a weekend of NS/TVRM “Steel City Rail Adventure” trips out of Birmingham, AL.

K621 comes across the Tennessee River with hoppers to be interchanged to SQVR. The river crossing here is split by Long Island and the lift span over the main channel is at far left.

Q612 grinds through downtown Opelika, photographed from a vantage point I never even considered for northbounds during my four years living in nearby Auburn.

The AGS North has been a hotbed of NS heritage activity lately. Here we see the Wabash unit leading coal loads south.