A rather oddly lettered ES44DC and a C40-8 sporting YN3 paint lead a load of new cars south between Fosterville and Bell Buckle, TN. The yield sign at this rural crossing is one of several such s... (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)

This Plymouth industrial locomotive served the Koppers railroad tie plant in Gutrie, KY, for many years but has now been retired. In September 2017 it was moved to its present location in Guthrie... (more)

An old Baldwin 2-6-2 Prairie type locomotive, built in 1927, sits as a static display in Lynnville, TN, along with a 1923 Pullman coach, a flat car, and a caboose built in 1971. The depot is ... (more)

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)

Q582 emerges from the foliage for a brief moment as it dashes across the West Fork of the Stones River.

Wartrace was a work camp for the Nashville-Chattanooga Railroad when the line was originally built. Once the line was complete, a branch line was built to Shelbyville, which is the line angling o... (more)

Built in 1902, the beautifully restored depot in Bristol, VA, was the fourth depot to serve Bristol VA/TN. It sits on land donated to the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad in 1848 by Rev. James Kin... (more)

An SD70 from Norfolk Southern leads CSX 646 through Wartrace, TN on a beautiful last day of 2014. The caboose on the left is part of History Park which tells us, among other things, that Wartrace... (more)

It's a lazy Sunday afternoon in the small hamlet of Fosterville as this autorack rumbles through. Yellows and blues dominate the scene.

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)

There are not just a ton of customers on the west run of RJC's Memphis line, so it's always a treat to catch them on a move. This train is headed east back to Guthrie, KY as it crosses the Cumber... (more)

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

While waiting in Stevenson, AL for a signal to advance to Bridgeport and cross the Tennessee River on CSX trackage rights, the engineer on this NS manifest had to ask the dispatcher to "Tell ... (more)

Spring has come early to middle TN, and Q210 bursts through the new green foliage for just a second as she crosses the West Fork of the Stones River on her way to Louisville.