With heavy fog lifting off Smoky Mountain in the background and hard rain abating, an excursion run on the old Tennessee RR prepares to take off down the branch from Devonia to Winona, TN.

After cutting the string of mtys in half and sending them to the loadout, an RJ Corman trainmaster heads back to the last half awaiting hookup. The forty-two mile branchline is owned by RJ Corman ... (more)

With dust from tunnel work flying, two new AC motors making a pusher set head west for either a coal or grain drag. Much of the Heartland Corridor project is completed, evident from Roderfield tun... (more)

NS morning regular 233 crosses over the Bluestone River and the abandoned Bluestone Branch as it heads west toward Williamson. Directly behind the power is Coopers tunnel.

Fall is upon us, a heavenly time of the year for photography. Maple leaves dot the tracks after a high autorack has swept them off the trees overhead and the sun leaves the Hickory Creek gorge.

Hard to believe OSHA allows this in the modern era. Releasing the brakes on a steep spur, a worker roped in rides a coal gon under the loadout till full, then will ride it by gravity down to the m... (more)

With remnants of yesterdays snow still around, E225 with a new string of coal hoppers enters Hickory Creek #1 tunnel. Hoppers were manufactured in Nov. of last year.

Work train 97J has the brakeman set the switch as it idles out to the Pokey main to do ditch work, caboose and all. The Pokey was slow the first half of the day with work going on from one end to ... (more)

In a heavy downpour, unit train 77G has just loaded the first cut of coal and is headed to the weigh in motion scales. NS always used six engines coming from John Sevier yard, loading and taking b... (more)

Showing the sheer size and height of the Trace Branch trestle, pushers for mine run U39 shove toward Cedar Bluff on the Dry Fork Branch of the Pocahontas Division. Speed here is down to barely a w... (more)

Veteran conductor extraordinaire Dale Long throws the derail prior to U24 pulling out from Eckman Yard. The new, shiny AC power was just delivered and will soon join the other horseheads on the Po... (more)

An RJ Corman crew uses battered NS power to load at the National Coal Baldwin coal prep plant. The New River plant currently loads one unit train a week destined for Georgia Power and should begin... (more)

Passing below National Coals slate dump or gob pile, an RJ Corman crew takes a loaded unit train toward Oneida after a long day. Wide views such as this are rare in the Cumberland Mountains.

With Corman vehicles below, their crew slowly idles leased NS power under the Baldwin prep plant loadout. Note the uniformity of the coal improving as each hopper is loaded. This was the first tim... (more)

After pulling a coal drag over Clarks Gap and setting it off at Algonquin, the motors head back to Elmore Yard to repeat the task all over again. Anybody ever been to Micajah?