Finally easing down the Cumberland plateau into Cowan, TN (MP J-86.8 S.E. Cowan), the massive CSX Q582-06 (Atlanta,GA-Nashville,TN) only at 12,895 foot in length, the manifest will come to a stop ... (more)

CSX Cowan pushers help Q029 up the grade at Cowan.

Easing down the Cumberland Plateau, CSX Q582-23 has control of the train as you can hear the high pitch whining noise of the dynamic brakes echoing off the mountain. The train will continue north ... (more)

Rolling down the mountain into Cowan, TN is CSX Q582-21 (Atlanta,GA-Nashville,TN) on it way north for Nashville with a line of motor, and 5,500 foot of train following behind.

Easing down the mountain is CSX X100-17 a lite motor move that is heading toward Nashville, TN. Due to the up coming power shortage that was in the coming months CSX starting to distribute the lea... (more)

only 1 of 4 units ordered by the NC&StL. This is the only known example to be in existence.

CSX Ballast Train W071 Heads North after working it's way down Cowan Grade

Some of the display items at the Cowan Railroad Museum. Recent additions to the collection in the center of Cowan also include a 40' NC&St.L boxcar and the old dispatchers tower. Great strides h... (more)

A prisoner work detail pauses to greet Q583 as it rolls past the Cowan RR Museum at the foot of Cumberland Mountain on a misty Saturday morning. A rare 1920 Porter 2-4-2 steam locomotive stands s... (more)

Q582 emerges from the north end of the tunnel through Cumberland Mountain near Cowan, TN. This tunnel was completed in 1852 before the Nashville and Chattanooga rail line got here. The first tra... (more)

Q211 was split into two trains today, and this is S211, the other half, pouring on the coal as she gets a rolling start at the 1.8% grade of Cumberland Mountain. The GE 44 tonner is the former NC... (more)

Q211 is about to pass the old control tower in Cowan, TN. When the NC&StL went to CTC control in 1944, all traffic between Nashville and Stevenson, AL, was controlled from this building. Here Q2... (more)

A GE 44 tonner was not a common sight alone the Class 1's of that day. Now preserved at the Cowan Depot Museum.

CSX AC4400CW 532 pushes Q583 up the mountain as it passes the Cowan Railraod Museum and NC&STL 44 tonner #100.

NC&STL 44 tonner 100 sits proudly displayed outside the railroad museum in Cowan.