The SOU 4501 heads east through Pittsburgh over the Pittsburgh and West Virginia enroute home rails at Strasburg, Virginia via the P&WV, WM, and N&W. The milepost would put this at West Liberty. T... (more)

She has run a had trip and is preparing to head back east. The patina of coal has besmirches the classic paints job but some of us like this lady with a little history and character.

Southern 4501 and two EMD assistants roll westward through the Town of Gate City, VA on an all-day round trip excursion from Kingsport, TN to Appalachia, VA and back.

Exercising trackage rights, this southbound NS steam excursion is rolling down the KP Sub of CSX--the north end of the former Clinchfield. This is the return leg of a Kingsport, TN to Richlands, V... (more)

Southern 4501 is drawing closer to completion in the Soule Shops at TVRM. Workers were busy in the firebox area and on axle journals while this pic was taken. That E in the background makes for a... (more)

Fan-tripper 4501 is westbound at Jones' Cut on the Appalachia District in 1993, a year before NS would cease the steam excursion program. The Mike usually had a silver or graphite smokebox, but fo... (more)

Southern 4501 leads a Kingsport-bound ferry move through Whitesburg, TN in April 1994.

The Knoxville Division engineer on Southern 4501 casts a pensive look at the photographer as the engine is serviced at Middlesboro before heading back to Knoxville. In 1974, there was a good chanc... (more)

Southern 4501 leading an excursion train by some derailed freight cars at Morristown, TN || October 1993

Southern 4501 stopped just south of Natural Tunnel, VA in April 1994 after a photo runby. Note the photo was taken from a public grade crossing and the train was stationary.

Southern's famous fan trip queen (and the first 2-8-2 owned by the company) is getting watered and serviced during the layover at Middlesboro, KY, on a round trip from Knoxville for the Old Smoky ... (more)

The April 20, 1985 Dogwood Arts Festival Special ran from Chattanooga to Knoxville, a distance of approximately 111 miles each way. The power was Southern Ms Class 2-8-2 4501. Southern 4501 was bu... (more)

Southbound Southern Rwy excursion at Starkey Hill near Roanoke, August 1972

Southern 4501 is framed along US 60 in the hills of Virginia on a Roanoke-Shenandoah excursion. Thanks to Jeff Hawkins for his assistance. See his site at Railroad: Southern Railway
Locomotive: Steam 2-8-2
Location: Buena Vista, Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: SOU 4501
Train ID: special
Photo Date: September 20, 1970

With the head-end passing the general store made famous in a night photo by O. Winston Link, a Southern 4501 special rolls through the siding enroute to Shenandoah with an open-air car full of con... (more)