Haybales, Pumpkins and Autumn Leaves – Tennessee Valley’s Summerville Steam Special arrives at Summerville, GA on a more Indian Summer day than that of late October. Southern 4501 pulled the ... (more)

Steam train in the rain!

Through the somewhat colorful fall foliage near Trion, GA

Seeing double? An amazing 1/12 live steam #4501 is seen with the inspiration in the background. The owner/operator brought "little 4501" from Nebraska for Railfest 2014.

Southern Railway 4501, running for the first time in 16 years, stops at Grand Junction at TVRM to unload passengers. She will be removed from the train, run around the wye, and be ready to pull a... (more)

Southern #4501 joined the TVRM excursion fleet during Railfest 2014, seen here posed with 2-8-0 #630.

Closing out the final day of Railfest 2014, newly restored #4501 rests at East Chattanooga with sister #630 as crew members tend to final shutdown procedures for the evening. The glowing harvest ... (more)

Closing out the initial day of Railfest 2014, newly restored #4501 doubleheads a deadhead run to East Chattanooga with #630. Thus ends the first day of public operation for #4501 since 1998.

SR 4501 takes on coal and water at Southern's Atlanta Spring Street Offices during the midpoint of a round trip from Chattanooga on April 12, 1980.

Southern steam special round trip from Atlanta to Toccoa, GA in October 1976. This image shows the steam special, pulled by SR 4501, headed south at the Lenox Square curve, about ten minutes nort... (more)

Southern 4501 gallops thru the Georgia woods as it leads a TVRM excursion south for Trion.

Southern 4501 kicks up her heels as she leads an excursion during Norfolk Southern's 25 years of steam celebration held that year in Chattanooga.

TVRM's Southern 4501 leads an excursion into north Georgia as it heads south on former Central of Georgia trackage now Chattooga & Chickamauga for Trion.

Norfolk Southern's steam program was in full swing when SR 4501 made a trip to Appalachia in 1994. On the return leg, 4501 rolls through Oreton on the NS (ex-Southern) main.