Tax day and another freight is waiting to head across the mountain and up to Nashville. Not an old unit but showing a lot of signs of hard use.
With Southern being the big show in Chattanooga, L&N moved its main yard south of town right on the Georgia line. Here a grizzled old vet shows years of hard work at the small engine facility.
NB grain train comes off Racoon Mountain with something a little unusual and ex-Conrail 4-axle unit. At the left is the line where NS joins the joint trackage for the westbound mountain climb.