Coasting down Duff Mountain and high above the small community of Habersham, Tennessee, northbound manifest Q542 prepares to be walked through the switch at Oaks in a few miles. This train would ... (more)
Two KCS Belles and two "Big MACs," one belonging to TFM and one belonging to CSX, are on the point of daily manifest freight Q542 on CSX's KD Subdivision. This section of the line trave... (more)
Zipping through the s-curve in Emerson, CSX manifest Q542 proceeds north as the sun gets low in the sky. Of interest, an EMD SW of some sort and a scale test hopper were in the consist.
Two Canadian visitors team up with a regular on northbound manifest Q542. The train is crossing the Little River, which flows out of the Smokey Mountains through Townsend, Wallend, and Maryville,... (more)