Nearing the end of it's run after making great time outta Memphis, Norfolk Southern's OCS crests the Raccoon Mountain grade and passes the Civil War Era tunnel at Whiteside, TN. The tunnel was bui... (more)

A Rare Bird Around These Parts Leaning into the curve on main 2 track through Aetna Hollow in the mountain community of Whiteside, TN, Haulage right CSX Z345-07 (NS 117) slowly ea... (more)

A Rare Bird Around These Parts The haulage right CSX Z345-07 (NS 117) is about .7 miles at the crest of Raccoon Mountain grade just north of the TN/GA Stateline in Whiteside, TN (... (more)

On a cool early September evening, CSX Z360-10 (NS 23N) is making the descent down Raccoon Mountain on the main 2 track on the CSX Chattanooga Sub at Whiteside, TN. The NS Haulage rights track has... (more)

Classic GE At the crest of the grueling Raccoon Mountain grade CSX Q210-22 (Dixiana, SC-Louisville, KY) crosses back into the state of Tennessee on the CSX Chattanooga Sub knock... (more)

Modern Day Leaser Digging right at the top of the grade on the main 2 track, CSX Z354-21 (NS 362) lean into the curve deep in the hollers of Whiteside, TN (MP J-139.0 Whiteside) o... (more)

Coming around on one the most picture perfect curve on this section of the CSX Chattanooga Sub, the 8,561ft long CSX L675-07 (Hamlet,NC-Nashville,TN) is making its descent down the Raccoon Mountai... (more)

Gliding around the curve on the main 2 track on the CSX Chattanooga Sub is the empty NS trackage right train CSX Z346-18 (NS 737) (Juliette,GA-Memphis,TN/BNSF) as it passes through the small rural... (more)

After crossing over the crest CSX Z351-24 (NS 734) (Memphis,TN/BNSF-Juliette,GA) is now rolling down the Raccoon Mountain on the CSX Chattanooga Sub. This loaded Scherer coal bucket is the last N... (more)

CSX train N320 stalled out on the Mountain at Whiteside and Q144 power helps out given them a push up the mountain as they cross the Running Water Trestle

Crossing the bridge over I-24 southbound.

A CSX train crosses Running Water Creek as it threads its way out of Alabama and briefly into Tennessee. It will leave Tennessee and enter Georgia, before finally returning to Tennessee at Chattan... (more)

A Norfolk Southern train on CSX trackage passes the abandoned tunnel at Whiteside, Tenn. In a few minutes the train will duck briefly into Georgia as it makes its way to Chattanooga.

BNSF power leads a NS coal train high above I24 on CSX's Chattanooga Subdivision.

Rolling around the broad curve on the number 1 track is the massive junk manifest CSX Q582-22 (Atlanta,GA-Nashville,TN) with a large motor EMD motor consist at the lead. The train is now making th... (more)