Southern 4501 leads a 4th of July special through the Wabash/Illinois Central diamonds at Tolono, IL. Legend is that Tolono received its name from a 19th century IC land surveyor who described th... (more)

Southern Railway GP38 #2822 and U23B #3917 lead the northbound local (Columbus, GA - Greenville, GA turn) on the "R" line past the Georgia Pacific plywood plant

Clearing skies! A low morning overcast is finally breaking over Knoxville, TN as Southern Railway Locomotive 154 makes its way across the spectacular Holston River Bridge with some loads de... (more)

Evening freight. A Southern Railway local freight makes its way east out of Knoxville, on a warm spring evening. The power this day is Southern Railway Consolidation #154 and she's picture... (more)

The local at work. Under darkening sky, a Southern Railway local freight shuttles loads to local industries in the Knoxville, TN area, with Consolidation #154 on the point. Here, she charg... (more)

Southern #630 speeds across a bridge in Grundy, VA. as NS #066.

Picking up empties. In the middle of a large industrial park in the Knoxville suburb of Asbury, Southern 154 and her crew pick up a couple of empty freight cars at the Tennessee Steel Proce... (more)

On the dark side at French Broad River. Here's a dark-side view of Southern Railway Consolidation #154. as she runs westbound on the shore of the French Broad River, hauling a local freight... (more)

Westbound to Knoxville. Southern Railway Consolidation #154 runs westbound along the French Broad River just a few miles east of her home base in Knoxville, TN. She's hauling a local freig... (more)

Serving Knoxville's industries. A Southern Railway local freight works its way past industrial complexes in the suburbs of Knoxville, TN, with a few loads to deliver on a fine spring mornin... (more)

130 years and still going strong. On a warm spring morning, Southern Consolidation #154 does what she's been doing for well over a century, taking a local freight east out of Knoxville, del... (more)

SR 34092 'City of Wells' in true Southern Region style departs Loughborough with the 1215 to Leicester North during the Great Central Railway's Autumn Steam Gala Weekend.

SR 34092 'City of Wells' waits impatiently to back down onto its train during the Great Central Railway's Autumn Steam Gala Weekend.

A Southern GP38-2 brings three cars south on the main line just north of the passenger station in Charlottesville, Virginia. Today, the tracks to the right of the passenger platform are gone, and ... (more)

Even Odds

Southern GP38 5050 switches a siding in Charlottesville, Virginia.