Chattanooga, Tenn.,-Decatur, Ill., manifest NS 124 rolls north on the old Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway mainline on August 2, 2011.

An ethanol grain train bound for Camilla, Ga., heads south at North Spring City, part of the former Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway mainline, on August 2, 2011.

NS grain train X2A (extra section of 52A) highballs through Spring City behind a freshly painted SD60 leader. The end of the siding is protected by a distinctive searchlight-dwarf combination.

NS 9568 interrupts the serenity of Spring City as it blasts through town with an intermodal train.

NS 8867 leads two foreigners and a sulphur train through Spring City.

Cincinnati, Ohio-Jacksonville, Fla., intermodal NS 229 led by a veteran GE C40-8 races past the restored Southern Railway depot in Spring City, Tennessee on August 2, 2011. 229 has been a hot trai... (more)

NS's OCS heads south between Spring City and Dayton, TN on a day that started out sunny, and later turned to a downpour of rain.

The beautifully restored Southern Railway station in Spring City basks in the sunlight on a crisp n' cool winter day.

161 rolls through downtown Spring City on a beautiful winter day. The 3rd unit is a horsehead SD60.

179 rolls past the classic Southern searchlight signals at the north end of the Spring City siding with a pair of UP SD70M's

NS M23 rounds the curve coming into Spring City with a SD60 and UP SD9043MAC.

215 flies through downtown Spring City with a nice SD70 leading a catfish and an ex-CR SD60I passing the ex-Southern depot and a caboose as Old Glory flutters in the wind.

A southbound stack train passes the old Southern signals at Spring City.

K-Line containers fly past a trackside memorial, dedicated to 11 children who lost their lives on August 20, 1955 when their school bus was struck by a southbound train. Following this tragedy, s... (more)

A southbound stack train passes the Southern station and caboose in Spring City.