With all the madness that's been circling social media partaining to COVID-19 I decided to go do some hiking in a very remote and undershot location along the Chatt Sub last weekend. No service, n... (more)

CSXT GP Units sit in front of the Depot in Tullahoma TN

NS run through mixed freight has them throttled up as it makes a run for the steep Raccoon Mountain grade during a heavy snow shower that dumped nearly five inches on the greater Chattanooga area.

A pair of SD70ACe's leads the 115 car Tennessee Valley Authority empty coal bucket NS 73Z (Kingston,TN-Memphis,TN/BNSF) along the contour of the Tennessee River in New Hope, TN. With no meet plann... (more)

Southbound Q583 is in full dynamics as Northbound Q580 has them in notch 8 throttle climbing the steep Raccoon Mountain grade. Early morning snowfall dumped nearly five inches of wet snow on the C... (more)

Snow and the South is not a good combination. A normally 12 minute drive took me nearly two hours to get to the top of Racoon Mountain due to pile ups and cars in ditches everywhere along I-24 and... (more)

After getting the signal from NS to zig-zag across the new track layout at 23rd St, CSX Q580-07 (Greenwood,SC-Nashville,TN) pounds the high-speed switches as the northbound freight crosses back ov... (more)

The eery sounds of a laboring Northbound echoes throughout the walls of Cowan Tunnel, soon after Q582 pops out of the darkness with a rebuilt SD70AC leading. The 167 year old Cowan Tunnel is one o... (more)

Jacksonville bound hotshot Q143 crests the steep Raccoon Mountain grade at Whiteside with ease and now begins to throttle it's short 2,300ft. train back as it starts down grade into the crew chang... (more)

Almost at the end of it's journey to Chattanooga, NS 102 (CSX Z381-25) (Sheffield,AL-Chattanooga,TN) is about to cross back into the state of Georgia as the freight slowly come down the steep, but... (more)

After a early morning dash from Fairburn, the inbound crew brings the 5,301ft long CSX Q154-28 (Fairburn,GA-Memphis,TN) to a safe stop at the crew change point at Wauhatchie (MP J-145.7). The inbo... (more)

One of the best places on the this 10 mile section of the Chattanooga Sub on Raccoon Mountain where you can get a train at a sweeping curve is at Aetna Hollow at Whiteside, TN (MP J-137.6 Whitesid... (more)

At 4,842 tons, the pair of GE is keeping the Memphis bound CSX Q154-28 (Fairburn,GA-Memphis,TN) up to speed on the main 2 track on the outskirts of Wildwood, GA. On today's Q154 is the 1 of the 51... (more)

Cagle's Farms bound CSX G263-20 (Casey,IL-Rockmart,GA) is creeping at 5mph over the Wauhatchie Yard lead bridge in Wildwood, GA slowing bring this crew to the end of it's journey from Nashville. W... (more)

The soothing sound of the water hitting the bank at Nickajack Cove was interrupted by the sound of the high whine of traction motors as CSX K402-12 (Ladds,GA-Proviso,IL/UP) crossing the cove as ... (more)