With a nice looking, clean ACe trailing, the daily West Local heads out of Knoxville. Unfortunately, he was told that he would have to wait in the siding at Boyd a few miles down the tracks for me... (more)

A solo MAC leads a long string of empty hoppers north, crossing the NS West End at the Willoughby diamond, a couple dozen yards back.

Powder River coal empties from TVA's Kingston Plant roll over the old Tennessee Central bridge in Harriman, as the crew wye the entire train, to head back to Chattanooga. The solid BNSF power (inc... (more)

A pair of Dash 9s lead 123 screaming out of Tunnel 24 at Nemo.

215 (near) runs around 285 who have stopped to pick up a string of Autoracks from the siding at South Waters.

T69 rolls into a nice "sucker hole" in the cloud cover, as it heads west at City Yard. Three veteran SD40-2s are up front.

With high/wide loads occupying the first three cars, 167 gets rolling south again, after meeting 115, and NS' new monster manifest 101 at Tunnel 25.

New Year's Eve on the Rathole. Southbound manifest 117 passes through Oakdale on Track One with 9762 in command.

A thick fog has formed overnight along the Emory River. At 9AM, most of that fog is still hanging around, as the crew of the Emory Gap local bring a cut of limestone loads south, after having just... (more)

After stopping at Rugby Road a couple of miles back, 52G is already back up to speed, as it rolls thru the CP at Glen Mary.

Just days after a derailment and fire on the KD Sub shut the line down completely, and forced residential evacuations and business closures just a few miles south of this location, the bottlenecke... (more)

275 drifts toward Tunnel 25 after coming off Track 2 onto the single Main.

"CSXT 953 south. Clear Dossett." Having just ducked under the NS K&O Line, a trio of AC traction GE units leads coal loads southbound at CP Dossett. Classic L&N-era searchlight si... (more)

Heading back north for another load of automobiles.

23G comes charging past the CP at East Siding. The crew has put the spurs to the locomotives, in order to get a good run at the heavy Chestnut Ridge grade just a couple miles ahead.