Running 30 minutes behind schedule, freshly repainted Southern Railway 630 drills through Missionary Ridge en route to retrieve their passengers to start the day.

Getting the steamer ready for opening day.

Southern Ry 630, owned by the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, pulls one of the early Norfolk Southern 21st Century Steam trips. Here she is northbound crossing from Main-1 to Main-2 at the Salis... (more)

Southern 630 leads a passenger special.

Southern 630 and Southern 4501 doubleheader on the Summerville Special as the lead the train south between Rock Springs and Lafayette

Southern 630 rests for the night in Birmingham, Alabama

There's always that one guy. I am standing in a photo line of about twenty people. And then there is this guy... Meanwhile, the 630 is shoving back to the NC Transportation Museum after the last o... (more)

A man waits for a train at Grand Junction at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga.

Southern Railway 2-8-0 #630 slowly begins to pull away from the North Carolina Transportation Museum.

She may have a lot of miles on her, but she's still both beautiful and up to the job. Here Southern #630 is seen getting ready to pull another passenger special in off the grounds f the North Caro... (more)

Riding high in Tennessee. A small Consolidation took the Lexington Group to Maryville and s somewhat larger one is bringing the train back to the big city. I’m always struck by how much more b... (more)

Over the South Chickamauga. One of the day's two steam-lead passenger trains crosses the South Chickamauga River on its way back to the depot at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.

The joys of riding in an open vestibule.

What a time this was. Steam returns to the NS mainline with an excursion westbound out of Roanoke. 630 came via TVRM.

Double header with #4501 returns after sunset with the timing of lightning and a fellow photographer's Bees.