Reunion of Man and Machine. I had the pleasure of meeting this gentleman today at Spencer. He was the engineer assigned to 3170 to assist N&W 611 up Saluda Grade in 1992. He retired from NS after ... (more)

Southern 4501 gets loose on the mainline for the first time in 21 years! Here we find her in the wind big time at Hickory Valley Road as she begins a short turn out to Cleveland, TN and back.

Photographer- unknown- from the 35 mm original Kodachrome slide. August 28 and 29, 1976 saw former 4449 GS-4 head up an excursion from Atlanta, GA to Alexandria, VA in order to get the big GS-... (more)

Steam makes an appearance on the CNO&TP in KY for the first time in over 20 years as SOU 630 storms south on the First District during May 2014. I'll consider myself extremely lucky on this one co... (more)

A extremely brief moment of sun pops through on a very cloudy day, lighting up the nose (yep they ran long hood forward) of a Southern GP30 on display at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Musuem.

A lone SD9 flying green flags heads west with a mainline local. This is an unusual shot in that, by 1972, Southern's six SD9s and lone SD7 (all inherited from C of G) were generally in captive ser... (more)

Southern painted U23B #3910 leading a train at Asheville, NC in the summer of 1985

Local job working at Greenville with Southern GP30 2586 || March 1984

On its first night in service after being rebuilt in Altoona and painted in Chattanooga, Southern SD40 #3170 passes the building where the decision was likely made to purchase this unit: the forme... (more)

With their work complete T25 swings through Mascot TN headed for Sevier Yard.

After being sidelined from P12 the previous evening, Norfolk Southern's newest heritage locomotive sits on the Gainesville Midland lead while the sun briefly shines upon the black and imitation al... (more)

Piedmont Division train 237 hustles south through Gainesville, Georgia, with the Central of Georgia heritage unit, passing Southern SD40 #3170. 237 moves intermodal traffic daily from Charleston,... (more)

On a warm spring morning, the Landrum, SC train order semaphore's top color aspects are illuminated by the large fireball in the sky. Another day has dawned, but there still hasn't been another tr... (more)

Southern Railway SD40 #3170 rests outside the NS paint shop at sunset in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Within a few hours, it will be cranked up and running, being prepared for revenue service after ha... (more)

Freshly shopped SOU GP30 on local switching Hattiesburg