A N&W SD40-2 leads one of the hottest trains on the CNO&TP into Danville for a crew change.

"Middle of nowhere." Many locations on the Rathole can best be described as "smack in the middle of nowhere". CP Camp Austin is one of those places, with the roadway bridge and the railroad... (more)

Rack/stack train 224 rolls through the yard at Emory Gap with the help of a UP GEVO.

The daily eastbound stack train from the CNO&TP glides down the OPM, or Old Passenger Main, a term at Sevier for this single track derived from this being the line where hotshot passenger trains w... (more)

Preparing to make a stop at the (CP) Boyce (M.P.-331.7) NS 143 (Elkhart, IN-Birmingham, AL) with a mixture of older, and modern motors straight its way across the Tennessee River on this slightly ... (more)

Junk Yard Fest After making its long journey south on the CNO&TP we see NS 147 power sit idle unassigned on the Chattanooga Diesel Shop west thoroughfare with a pair of recently purc... (more)

At the end of a long journey south on the CNO&TP, NS 117 (Bellevue, OH-Chattanooga,TN) slowly eases its way up the West side arrival, and departure lead at Debutts yard with a special motor at the... (more)

As three fellow railfans line up their shots, 147 comes blasting out of tunnel 24 with a nice set of foreign power. Shown in the photo are fellow Railpictures contributors Mark Ragan and Gabe Pass... (more)

With a clear signal in the distance for an approaching northbound (that would show up just moments later), southbound rack/stack train 223 has just passed the crossovers at CP Sunbright on the Rat... (more)

A dirty and faded EMD Ex- Santa Fe Warbonnet leads two BNSF GE's southbound on the CNO&TP heading to Chattanooga.

At the end of a long journey south on the CNO&TP, NS 117 (Bellevue, OH-Chattanooga,TN) slowly eases its way up the West side arrival, and departure lead at Debutts yard with a special motor at the... (more)

NS 167 comes blasting out of tunnel 24 at Nemo, TN. Powering the train is a C40-8W which began life in Conrail blue.

"Muddy Reflections". The cab of the lead unit is reflected nicely in a muddy puddle caused by all the recent rain. This was my first trip to Nemo on the NS "Rathole", and it did not disappo... (more)

A pair of Dash 9s, including a BNSF "swoosh" repaint, bracket a nice surprise - one of NS's recently acquired ex-UP SD90MACs powering grain loads southbound at Sunbright, TN.

A friendly wave hello from a crewman of Southern 2-8-0 #630 (ALCO built 1904) sets off the shutters and video cameras above on Duncan Road at Kings Mountain, KY as the engine's morning shadow foll... (more)