A southbound intermodal slowly gains speed as it heads toward Tunnel 25 on the CNO&TP. This scene is no longer as interesting as it would have been even a few short weeks ago, when a Southern Rail... (more)

I had almost all but forgot about this photo, but I don't know how. This was one of my favorite photos from 2014, taken on my one day trip north on the CSX KD with a fellow photographer. Here we s... (more)

The cleanest standard cab of the day was this SD50 in Boxcar Logo leading a southbound loaded rail train across the Clinch River.

I managed to get ahead of the loaded grain train at Clinch River due to southbound movements, and this is what the opportunity yielded.

An outing with a great photographer friend yeilded a plethora of trains. This was the first train of the day, as there was still some lingering snow to see between the rails.

A great day for standard cabs on CSX! To start the parade was a CSX northbound grain train with a nice SD50 leader flies north at South Amherst.

NS 126 screams past the set of crossings in Bearden behind two of NS's common Dash 9s.

NS T12 tops the slight grade in Fountain City, Tennessee behind an Ex-Conrail SD40-2 and an Ex-Southern GP38-2.

Here come the next generation of Toyota vehicles! Skimming the rails at a good 55 mph is NS southbound autorack train 285 with a conventional cab Dash 9 leading.

"Puttin' the Bread On the Table" is this southbound loaded grain train cruising along the welded rail of the CNO&TP on a mighty frigid afternoon. It is so cold that just adjacent to the right of t... (more)

Looking back into my files, I found the Southern Railway heritage unit leading NS Loudon Local T69 west from John Sevier Yard in the summer of 2014.

A northbound roadrailer flies over New River on this cold winter day.

NS sent me a surprise when I left school today, and I went out and grabbed it! A big thank you goes out to all our Veterans, past, present, and future.

The daily eastbound stack train from the CNO&TP glides down the OPM, or Old Passenger Main, a term at Sevier for this single track derived from this being the line where hotshot passenger trains w... (more)

A Norfolk Southern local cruises west through Mascot. He is passing a camp train that has been sitting in the maintenance spur for going on three months now. Just by looking at this train, you cou... (more)