A head on look of Cowan 1 during the private photo shoot at the Cowan Railroad Museum

Cowan 1 quietly simmering by the depot as the engineer oils the locomotive in Cowan, Tennessee for a run later that night

CSX 7237 Autorack train Eastbound under the stone bridge at the entrance to the Cowan Tunnel in Cowan TN - Two DPU's on the rear and one mid DPU to help push this train up and over the Cumberland ... (more)

With rays of light from the afternoon sun , CSX 592 Leads train 58309 with mixed freight , Southbound out of the Eastern end of the Cowan TN tunnel - CSX 544 trailing - 95 empties and 12 loaded ca... (more)

CSX 5489 Leads a two unit mixed freight train Westbound out of the Cowan Tunnel in Cowan TN on a hot and humid Saturday afternoon

CSX 1776 "Spirit of the Armed Forces" exits the East end of the Cowan TN tunnel on a hot 92 degree afternoon. Eastbound from Nashville to Georgia

Running through a very foggy Cowan at around midnight central time, CSX Q582 heads north for a meet with 583 at Dechard with the 3194, the companies "Spirit of our Law Enforcement" engin... (more)

An EMD 645 prime mover could be heard for miles laboring up the steep Northbound grade up to the peak of the Cumberland Plateau. Finally X582 exit's the 2,200ft long Cumberland Mountain Tunnel at ... (more)

The eery sounds of a laboring Northbound echoes throughout the walls of Cowan Tunnel, soon after Q582 pops out of the darkness with a rebuilt SD70AC leading. The 167 year old Cowan Tunnel is one o... (more)

The Cowan pusher prepares to duck into Cowan Tunnel as it shoves heavy Northbound mixed freight Q580 up the steep 2% grade to the top of Cumberland Mountain. The Timber Rattlesnake in the foregrou... (more)

Northbound hotshot intermodal Q142 rockets out of the historic Cumberland Mountain Tunnel in Cowan, TN on the edge of the Cumberland Plateau.

A 40 year old vet leads empty autorack train Q210 out of the North portal of the Cumberland Mountain Tunnel at Cowan, TN on the edge of the Cumberland Plateau. The 2200FT. Tunnel was constructed i... (more)

As Newton's First Law of Motion is taking affect, the Trio of CSX motors on the head of the 98 car empty Stilesboro coal bucket CSX N302-22 (Stilesboro,GA-Madisonville,KY) is in full dynamic as th... (more)

Train Q51304 assaults the 1.8% Cumberland Escarpment with 3 GEs up front and another pair shoving on the rear end as helper J29705.

It's was in the turn of the 20th Century in a what was an industrial booming town that was carried from the mid-19th century. Cowan, TN had seen everything from agriculture to mining, but the cent... (more)