After being in storms for the better part of the day. Q692 is about to exit the last of a number of severe heavy downpours that followed it northbound up the Clinchfield.

Looking more like Ireland, northeastern TN is as green as the day is long after receiving plenty of rain this Spring. A break in a stormy afternoon brings Q692 into the warm and humid countryside ... (more)

CSX 377 crosses Boones Creek, near Johnson City, TN in May of 2005.

Stranger in a Strange land. NS #4002 leads southbound CSX train Q696-05 across the high trestle spanning Boone's Creek in eastern Tennessee on a beautiful afternoon.

These units were a rarity on this line 22 years ago. This one is sitting quietly in the siding with a rail train. The main line has its new concrete ties, allegedly the solution to the need for ... (more)

I don't know about anybody else but it miss the old "pumpkins". They were useful late in life and colorful. We should all do as well. A great example of the pumpkin, this one had many grueling ... (more)

ET&WNC #208 and #207 in Johnson City, TN after a NRHS trip in 1960.

The East Tennessee and Western North Carolina’s daily train passes a modest truck patch just beginning to sprout in this May, 1982 view.

On a beautiful March afternoon, Norfolk Southern's "Original NS" heritage unit leads westbound 37Q through the recently revitalized corner of downtown Johnson City, Tennessee.

After another lite dusting of snow to the Tri Cities area, Norfolk Southern's "Conrail" heritage unit leads westbound 22A through downtown Johnson City, Tennessee bound for Sevier Yard in Knoxvill... (more)

Plowing through the snow on the Clinchfield Railroad, northbound manifest Q697-22 knocks down the Classic Clinchfield Signal at NE Johnson City under threatening skies.

Shortly after a visit from winter storm "Jonas", one of CSX's "Heritage Bumper Sticker" units leads northbound manifest Q697-21 past the classic Clinchfield Signal at NE Johnso... (more)

Back when CSX switched the downtown area you could always depend on something being assigned to the job, usually a GP40 but on this date a rare former C&O unit makes things interesting.

After switching scrap gons at Omni Source in Legion Street Yard, ETRY 214 crosses an original Clinchfield bridge in Johnson City, Tennessee on it's way to the CSX interchange. East Tennessee Rail... (more)

A northbound extra movement rolls across Boone's Creek Trestle on the CSX KP Sub. This section of the former Clinchfield Railroad was truncated and many jobs were cut on the day I paid a visit, le... (more)