Southern 630 and its load of passengers pass under the endangered Southern Searchlight at Oakdale

Southern 630 steam engine leads the Steam Anniversary special on the returning trip through Oakdale, TN.

Southern Railway #630 ducks under the endangered signals at Oakdale, whose replacements are rising just around the curve. This is the last untouched signal bridge in the area.

The Southern 630 emerges north bound from tunnel 25 with a blast of smoke and steam on its journey north to Oneida, TN.

The southbound TVRM excursion passes under one of the few remaining searchlight signal bridges on the south end of the Rathole heading for Chattanooga.

Due to Southern 630 still undergoing mechanical work at Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, Norfolk Southern provided the Southern Railway heritage locomotive to power the TVRM/NS Chattanooga - Onei... (more)

On a beautiful New Year’s Eve morning, NS 9523 has train 275 gliding through Oakdale with a load of brand new automobiles.

New Year's Eve on the Rathole. Southbound manifest 117 passes through Oakdale on Track One with 9762 in command.

NS 197 creeps through Oakdale approaching Tunnel 25, having just passed two waiting northbounds.

A fresh crew has boarded southbound 387 as it departs Oakdale beginning its trip over the third district of the CNO&TP for Chattanooga.

NS 142 heads north through Oakdale. This could very well be the last snowfall for these searchlights as their replacements were just to my right across the tracks.

The "hotshot" heads south through a snow covered, and empty, Oakdale.

NS #7001 one of three GP40X's that NS has leads a South Bound out of Tunnel 26 MP255.5

A southbound freight with 5 trailing exBNSF motors to become eventual rebuild fodder for NS's rebuild program.

EMD/CAT's brand new SD70ACe #1201 leads NS high & wide train 055 southbound under the signal bridge at Tunnel 25 in Oakdale, TN on a mild October evening. The 1201 had been debuted at the Mine Exp... (more)