Date approximate. A relic sits in front of the magnificent station awaiting work. The station is now known as California Dreaming.

Originally Central of Georgia, once ubiquitous down in this area. We loved the sound and the smoke as they wheeled locals full of wood products and miscellaneous “stuff” through quaint small ... (more)

Looking very out-of-place, the Southern GP38-2 switches out auto rack cars at Tyner on a brisk winter evening.

The four Southern FP7 units have been run around the excursion train and are ready to depart for the return to Asheville, NC. The rain had finally let up and the sun made a weak appearance.

Two high nose GP30 units sit next to the older FP7 units in Asheville. One of these units, 2601, has been restored at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer.

All four Southern Railway FP7 units were in Asheville on this Friday to pull an excursion to Bulls Gap, Tennessee and back. The excursion left Asheville in a steady rain the next morning. This uni... (more)

SR 630 with the stack capped for the rest of the weekend sits on the TVRM's shop lead waiting for it's day to get serviced by the shop team, and to be reassigned to the next scheduled excursion. W... (more)

Southern Railway #2601 pulls the Museum passenger train with CSXT #911 & NS #9-1-1 sitting to the side for photos.

An NS train heads for Albany behind half the company's B36-7s; all still wearing Southern colors.

Southern Railway's oldest operating steam locomotive lets out a little steam as it powers a short photo freight for the first Southern Rail Productions photo charter. The engine was decorated in a... (more)

A trio of Southern Railway FP7s lead a southbound train on the Shenandoah Line near Luray, rolling past the siding at Vaughn. The train is destined for the National Railway Historical Society conv... (more)

Retired Southern Railway GP30 2601 does its duty powering the passenger train along the NC Transportation Museum grounds.

The daily morning "bakery job" local is arriving at Indiana Sugars to switch out loads and empties, on the former Wabash Railroad 4th District Chicago-Montpelier Ohio line, in 1984.

After easing back to it's train, both SR 630, and 4501 ends a very successful 100+ mile round trip to Summerville, and back on this super double header Saturday. While both locomotives are coming ... (more)

Top Ten of 2018. Here's a look back at my Top 10 favorite shots from 2018.
3. Southern Railway 2-8-2 4501 (built in 1911) and 2-8-0 630 (built in 1904) doublehead a photo c... (more)