A CSX local passing through Aetna Hollow.

NS 1069 coming around the curve at Aetna Hollow.

NS 1069 passing through Whiteside.

201 crossing the running water trestle at whiteside tn.

Let take a trip back down memory lane, on a postcard prefect Autumn morning as haulage right train NS 362 (Sheffield,AL-Chattanooga,TN) has finally crest the grade at Whiteside, TN as the general ... (more)

The moderate to heavy rain ease for just a brief moment as CSX K443-21 (Chicago,IL/CP-Lawrenceville,GA), but the wet rails give the crew a fit as they drag 13,045 tons of steel, and ethanol over ... (more)

Snow and the South is not a good combination. A normally 12 minute drive took me nearly two hours to get to the top of Racoon Mountain due to pile ups and cars in ditches everywhere along I-24 and... (more)

Jacksonville bound hotshot Q143 crests the steep Raccoon Mountain grade at Whiteside with ease and now begins to throttle it's short 2,300ft. train back as it starts down grade into the crew chang... (more)

One of the best places on the this 10 mile section of the Chattanooga Sub on Raccoon Mountain where you can get a train at a sweeping curve is at Aetna Hollow at Whiteside, TN (MP J-137.6 Whitesid... (more)

Q143 crawls past the old civil war tunnel on the new bipass. After plans were introduced to double track this portion of the Chattanooga Sub, the old tunnel was bipassed in order to fit the second... (more)

"Oh boy we have a screamer" Q143 climbs up the Raccoon Mountain S-curve around Whiteside, TN with its 5,000 foot intermodal train sqealing around the curves.

K492 leads out of the Tennessee Valley with a rebuilt AC6000CW in the lead. While chasing this train, this was the only time we were able to get it in daylight due a cloud deck rolling in.

Q154 climbs out of Georgia and into Tennesee with a YN2 duo up front.

CSX G518-03 (Bruceton,TN/WTNN-Rocky Mount,NC) has crest the grade as it passes the unfinished Whiteside Tunnel, one of the hidden jewels that is tuck away from modern society. The loaded grain tra... (more)

High over interstate 24, and state road 134, CSX G158-03 (Bruceton,TN/WTNN-Rocky Mount,NC) with a trio of GE motors stagger the company grain train over the 1,112.9 ft long Running Water Creek ste... (more)