Spring has come early to middle TN, and Q210 bursts through the new green foliage for just a second as she crosses the West Fork of the Stones River on her way to Louisville.

Contrails criss-cross the late Fall sky as CSX 7310 (C40-8W), 8084 (SD40-2), and 8720 (SD60) slow to a stop just north of the Murfreesboro depot. Switching activity ahead has temporarily haulted ... (more)

A pair of discarded mill stones and a crumbling general store are among the few remaining clues that Fosterville was once a bustling agricultural rail hub.

Nashville's only commuter train, The Music City Star, has finished its last run of the morning and is returning to home base in Lebanon.

This southbound GP40-2/Road Slug combo eases onto the siding at Fosterville for a meet with northbound Q675 on an unusually warm late November day.

No Thanksgiving holiday for this crew. They're hauling a mixed load of freight northward across the West Fork of the Stone's River toward Nashville. A pair of ES44DC's (5427 and 5348) provide th... (more)

A colorful array of EMD power, including an MP15T switcher, spices up the usually drab, all blue lash up of Q582-09 on this beautiful late summer day.

A pleasant surprise to see ex-Conrail SD50-2 on the point of this ballast train as it splits the South Moran signals on a beautiful New Year's Eve afternoon.

Q581-1 has just cleared the Smyrna signal and passed MPJ21 on the Chattanooga Sub. Fellow RP contributor Kyle Yunker was kind enough to point out that this is the only engine on the CSX roster to... (more)

An SD50 with YN2 paint is a rare treat these days. This one showed up at the Nissan automotive plant in Smyrna, TN, this week.

Q583 slides by the old Murfreesboro depot and yard on its way to Chattanooga. This long, heavy train is challenging the motive power this morning as they are struggling to maintain 30 to 35 mph. ... (more)

Rain is falling as work train W031-19 passes through Murfreesboro on its way south.

It is a hot, muggy eve of the 1st day of summer as L565 eases back onto the main from the siding in Fosterville and heads north after letting a southbound stack train pass. This Helm Financial SD... (more)

Local power for the Nissan plant in Smyrna, TN this week is this mother/slug combo. Here it sits in the morning sunshine by the Florence Rd crossing awaiting a crew to begin another day of shovin... (more)

The Murfreesboro local is running light engines, headed south to switch some strudel ingredients around at the Pillsbury plant. In the background the old Conrail caboose that is used as a shoving... (more)