Heisler 6 sits at the shops after powering a Bald Knob excursion

Three examples of N&W steam power under the Robert B. Claytor and W. Graham Claytor, Jr. Pavilion at VMT... class G-1 #6 (1897), class A #1218 (1943), class J #611 (1950)

A crane loads the 610's tender with coal while the engine is serviced on a mild December afternoon. The 610 is all decked out with Christmas lights for a series of North Pole Limited trips on TVRM... (more)

Photographers jostle about to shoot the Three Rivers Rambler railfan special as it prepares to depart downtown Knoxville. KXHR's engine 9, a rare SW600, poses next to the 203.

Fireman Chris Starnes has a nice plume of smoke rolling out of the stack as the 203 performs a photo run-by during a Three Rivers Rambler railfan special. This trip was run in conjunction with the... (more)

The 666 leads three other GEs and an intermodal train over the Tennessee River bridge. The train is timetable northbound (from Chattanooga to Nashville) but is geographically heading southwest. Th... (more)

On display at Centennial Park in downtown Nashville is the last surviving NC&StL steam locomotive, the 576. This semi-streamlined class J3 4-8-4 (which the NC&StL called "Dixies" rather than "Nort... (more)

An eclectic A-B-B-A-A consist composed of TCRM's cab units and two NERR (ex-BNSF) B40-8Ws leads an excursion from Nashville to Cookeville on the former TC mainline.

Great Smoky Mountains 1702 poses with Southern 2601, visiting from NCTM for Railfest 2004.

A trio of former LMX B39-8s lead a military train through Cusseta, although it's hard to see with the lead unit's turbo about to blow.

Southern 154 performs a photo run-by over the Holston River bridge during a John Craft (Historic Transport Preservation Inc.) freight charter. Just beyond the bridge, the Holston and the French Br... (more)

Sitting next to TVRM's Soule Shops, we have, from left to right: Southern's legendary Baldwin Mikado 4501, Central Soya (originally US Army) EMD NW2 117, and Central of Georgia Alco RS-3 109. It'd... (more)

Known at one time as the "loudest engine in America" for its exceptionally sharp exhaust, former excursion star Frisco 1522 now sits entombed in the Museum of Transportation. I was fortunate enoug... (more)