Southern Railway 4501 leads train 100 at the other end of the tunnel heading towards East Chattanooga

After completing job briefing, CSX E321-27 (Cross,SC-Evansville,IN/EVWR) receive a signal, and is working it’s way north out of Wauhatchie on this segment of the journey to Nashville, TN. This i... (more)

Today it is pretty busy in Norfolk Souther's DeButts Yard with a lot of car movement. A nice looking EMD-2 packed with 3,000 horsepower works along with a yard slug (NS #865) to build trains.

The paint is still fresh on these units as NS 168 heads across Tenbridge to begin their journey on the Rathole.

It's been a nice trip over to East Chattanooga yard for today's local and now we head back to Grand Junction. On our way, we make a second trip through the Missionary Ridge Tunnel. The engineer c... (more)

It's a cold blue hour as NS 26C (Jacksonville,FL-Chicago,IL) start to pick up the pace after getting a diverging-clear signal at Tenbridge to cross over to the adjacent track. Like anything that i... (more)

After doing a full 180 on the turntable, the Missionary Ridge local engine prepares to hook back up and head back to Grand Junction.

The first "Missionary Ridge Local" of the day has pulled in from East Chattanooga.

Southern 4501 crosses Chickamauga Creek en route to Grand Junction to begin the final day of steam operations for 2022 at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.

Southern 4501 leads train 100 out of East Chattanooga heading towards Grand Junction on the last weekend of steam season for the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in 2022

NS 732 (Memphis,TN/BNSF-Juliette,GA) is now entering back on home rails as the loaded coal bucket made the 30+ mile run on the CSX Chattanooga Sub from Stevenson, AL on this humid early September ... (more)

Two veteran high hood locomotives sit at Grand Junction at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga. Former Southern Railway GP30 #2594 is nearest us. She was built in 1963. In 1982, sh... (more)

A man waits for a train at Grand Junction at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga.

Plenty of action in this deButts Yard scene.

1226 was wrecked and was recently repaired for service.