Still the best locomotive ever run by NS steam program (IMHO). Here the train is westbound entering the siding for a meet. Why yes, I am on the lead locomotive of the train they are meeting, by ... (more)

Her service following restoration in Southern's steam shop in Birmingham was brief indeed, but ex-C&O Kanawha was a heck of an engine for the time she ran. Here, the big 2-8-4 is slowly backing th... (more)

Just arriving from Knoxville, Southern's ex-C&O 2-8-4 number 2716 is in the midst of its very brief time pulling passenger excursions. The engine is en route to Appalachia, VA, where it will pull ... (more)

The gentleman in the blue shirt wearing a moustache and standing (center) on the rear platform of Southern's "Lookout Mountain" is none other than NS CEO Wick Moorman. At the time, Wick was the di... (more)

Specially equipped coal gondola Southern Railway #900096 has topped off 2716's tender and the operator is retracting the loading boom. The gondola, sent from Birmingham's Norris Yard, was staged ... (more)

Southern's leased (from the Kentucky Railway Museum) ex-C&O Kanawha 2716 blasts a column of smoke worthy of Mount Vesuvius as she works up the 1.7 percent grade from Natural Tunnel to Sunbright. I... (more)

Storming into the curve

C&O Kanawha Berkshire taking a year's turn in the Southern Steam Program.

Southern Railway 2-8-4 #2716, with the conductor protecting the shove move, is being turned for the return excursion trip to Birmingham. The building in the distance is the Western Railway of Ala... (more)

Southern Railway "Kanawha type" 2-8-4 #2716 has been watered, coaled, inspected and lubricated and is backing around the wye to gather its train and return to Birmingham. During this momentary lu... (more)

Southern Railway Extra 2716 East (one of 90 Kanawha type 2-8-4's built for C&O) is approaching the east end of Hatchet Creek Bridge on the outbound leg of its round-trip from Birmingham to Opelika... (more)

Southern Railway Extra 2716 East (one of 90 Kanawha type 2-8-4's built for C&O) has pulled high of the switch to the east leg of the wye. The Opelika Switch Engine is busy turning 2716's train on... (more)

Southern Railway 2-8-4 #2716, built as one of 90 "Kanawha type" steam engines for C&O, is on day one of a two day Birmingham, AL to Opelika, AL pair of excursion round-trips. The excursion manage... (more)

Working hard upgrade this train is headed for Appalachia, from which it would run two excursions to Norton the next day. East Tennesee Chapter NRHS hosted the trip on the 16th which featured seve... (more)

Note even sure if this was 1981 so let's say circa. I do remember our amazement that this was fantrip and we couldn't keep up. Man, that thing could run! It was a trip from Charlotte to Columbia... (more)