A southbound manifest plows through the snow on the way to Chattanooga, TN.
NS sent me a surprise when I left school today, and I went out and grabbed it! A big thank you goes out to all our Veterans, past, present, and future.
Under an amazing sunset, the Bulls Gap local heads east after passing the 21st Century Steam Excursion shuttle move with Southern/TVRM 4501 leading.
The Virginian heritage unit sits at the Kingston Fossil Plant unassigned after the T36 crew tied it down on a side track. It has pulled many coal trains, and will probably pull another as soon as ... (more)
A great day to follow the Three Rivers Rambler Christmas Lantern Express! Bringing up the rear of the train is the famed GP9.
An empty autorack prepares to diverge onto the CNO&TP northbound to Burnside, Kentucky for a crew change. The conductor was wearing a University of Kentucky shirt on a University of Tennessee game... (more)
Finding a photo opportunity with no bystanders was a nearly impossible task on this hot May afternoon. With over 2,000 people standing by the tracks to watch this engine steam by, I found a spot t... (more)
The SCL SD45 poses on a quiet night with its new livery.
The southbound CSX Kentucky Derby equipment move heads through Dossett, Tennessee on a peaceful Sunday evening. The train would have been hard to catch up to at this location from Rocky Top, (Lake... (more)
Becoming all but a rarity in modern times, an end-cab switcher sits as the yard power for Radford yard. This is the only SW1500 owned by NPBL and it does not have ditch lights.
Two run-of-the-mill CSX AC4400CWs lead a hot single-stack intermodal through downtown Knoxville on an unseasonably warm October day.
A loaded NS coal train trundles through City Yard in downtown Knoxville, which was being used for storage of rail cars at the time. Also of note, the Nickel Plate Road heritage ES44AC was being us... (more)
The CSX office car special streaks through the Duff Mountain gorge adorning its fancy new paint scheme.
The late evening glint light illuminates a KCS passing the yard power at Emory Gap.
A CSX southbound coal train glides through Morley through the tunnel and across the creek, led by a shiny YN3B Boxcar Logo standard cab.