Lots of new things here. New main. New siding for the propane distributor. New Komatsu excavators from the Chattanooga plant. Top it all off with a smoke show from an ex-Conrail SD60M and you'v... (more)

Q029-17 features two "Bright Future" AC4400CW's whose brightness has faded a little through the years. But they are still more than up to the challenge of hauling this 8700' stack train... (more)

Q029 rolls through a city park in Murfreesboro late in the afternoon on its way to Atlanta from Chicago.

A pleasant surprise to see ex-Conrail SD50-2 on the point of this ballast train as it splits the South Moran signals on a beautiful New Year's Eve afternoon.

Watching the engineer and conductor of the Tullahoma local make up their train was like watching a choreographed dance routine. Obviously not their first rodeo, these guys were true artists. Onc... (more)

The Tullahoma local is powered by a freshly painted GP38-2 running long nose forward. Here it pulls a cut of cars past "History Park" which features an all steel L&N caboose built in 1964. They ... (more)

Dispatcher: "Q029-23 this is dispatch. Will you need a push over the mountain at Cowan tonight?" Engineer: "Yes ma'am, if we want to get to the other side we will." Dispatcher: "Well then 02... (more)

A colorful array of EMD power, including an MP15T switcher, spices up the usually drab, all blue lash up of Q582-09 on this beautiful late summer day.

A pair of discarded mill stones and a crumbling general store are among the few remaining clues that Fosterville was once a bustling agricultural rail hub.

The sun was dropping, as was the temperature, so I decided to fire up the Road King and ride home. But then I heard W097 go through the defect detector and it was only 300' long. Curious, I hung ... (more)

The afternoon shadows have grown long as Q583 races into Tullahoma. Here it is about to slide between the old NC&StL depot and the local power, a GP38-2.

It's a cold, foggy, February morning in 1985. Overnight nearly 7" of snow has fallen, bringing this southern city to a grinding halt - except for Radnor Yard where four "Dash-7's" pull an inter-m... (more)

L&N caboose #1092 was decorated for the Christmas holidays this morning by the good folks of Tullahoma. Built in 1964, it was one of the later cabooses to be built by L&N. Today it made a mighty... (more)

Late in the afternoon on a late fall day, a pair of EMD's lead Q583 across the Elk River bridge. The second engine, #4848, is an SD70ACe, a fairly rare bird for CSX. Q583 is a daily train from N... (more)

It's early Saturday morning and the 8500' long Q133 races between a GP38-2 used for local power and the old NC&StL depot on its way to Jacksonville Florida