Cumberland Mountain, TN The four and half miles of 2.5% grade make this one of the toughest grades on any mainline in America. The west slope presents an almost equally tough 2.3% grade. C... (more)

KXCG's Middlesboro job rolls into New Tazewell on their way back to Knoxville on a cool morning.

A Knoxville & Cumberland Gap coal train crosses Lonesome Valley in rural eastern Tennessee with an RJ Corman SD40-2 pair.

All ready for lettering this former L&N geep will keep this paint job for only a short time but it looks pretty good. BTW, I have yet to hear why L&N and only L&N had that little pipe down by the... (more)

The T50 job builds outbound manifest 101 at Bull's Gap.

Knoxville-Dossett local job C740 blasts South at Dossett on the KD Sub.

CN 5288 is now loaded onto QTTX 130503 which will carry her to a new home at the Colebrookdale Railroad in Boyertown, Pennsylvania.

About as close to live as you can get, it's a heavy lift day in Chattanooga. Crews from the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM), FMW Solutions, and local crane operators lift a heavy Pacific ... (more)

About as close to live as you can get, it's a heavy lift day in Chattanooga. Crews from the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM), FMW Solutions, and local crane operators begin to lift a heavy... (more)

About to load up CN 5288 , where she will be shipped to her new home at the Colebrookdale Railroad in Boyertown, Pennsylvania.

CSX Tyner Branch local heads towards Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

F769 the 'Yellow Dog' departs Kingsport headed South first thing in the morning.

That must be one hot car of woodchips! Well, as a matter of fact, it is. Knoxville & Cumberland Gap Railroad (KXCG) is one of RJ Corman's newest operations, assuming operations of two separate NS... (more)

Loaded coal train NS 798 winds East along the S Line coming into Hot Springs.

Photo freight? Nope! Just another day of shortline railroading on the East Chattanooga Belt Railway Company (ECBT). That said, the ECBT is one of the TVRM freight affiliates, and shares motive po... (more)