Engineer David Pugh works around 630 between runs during Railfest 2013.

On a blistering hot July morning, several CSXT freights stop for crew changes in downtown Nashville while the old Union Station (now a hotel) looks on in the background.

WMSR 734 surmounts the final grade into Frostburg, nearly 2.8%.

Ex-Washington & Lincolnton #203 backs across Three Rivers Trestle after sunset, running solo behind the return trip to Knoxville (powered by Chattanooga Traction Co. #4).

The Rambler curves along Neyland Drive as it approaches the stadiums of the University of Tennessee and its former boarding location at Volunteer Landing.

D&RGW K-27 #463 rolls off the Lobato Trestle with a photo freight on a summer afternoon. While this is one of two K-27s in operation (the other being in Michigan), #463 is the only one left in its... (more)

Guest engine Southern FP7 #6133 leads one of the day's Local trips across the Chickamauga Creek.

Southern Railway #630 flies south through Spring City.

Up Cass Hill.

Southern Railway #630 concludes her 2nd run of the day, arriving at TVRM.

Southern #630 drifts downgrade through the fields in Shawsville.

Southern Railway #630 steams across Chickamauga Creek on a beautifu spring day. This locomotive will be one of the star attractions in the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's 50th Anniversary Railf... (more)

The L&N and the Southern Railway once had a joint yard in Jellico, TN, but it was removed by Norfolk Southern around ten years ago. NS 787 is seen rolling through the shadow of that yard as it pre... (more)

NS T35 rolls upgrade into the growing shadows of the Cumberland Mountains for a night of work.

With another train of coal loads safely across Duff Mountain, the Morley helper cuts off on the fly. While the light engine rolls to a quick stop, the southbound coal train will pick up speed as i... (more)