Final minutes of connecting to excursion train.

Local has just collected empty vegetable oil tank car from chip plant. (Potatoes come via truck trailer.)

Train is arriving and a crew change will be made.

Waiting for track clearance to move into Tennessee and run west to Knoxville

Local is returning to yards; woman motorist seems oblivious to horn blowing

Special dignitaries train ready to back east to Glade Spring to be turned on the Wye

Photo made shortly before railcar departed west into Tennessee

Operation Lifesaver Special. Note TV Camera on hood above Thoroughbred

Operation Lifesaver train arriving Bristol to be ready for tomorrow's media event roundtrip Bristol to Bulls Gap, TN

22A tied down waiting on crew and clear track west

Local is returning cross-town with empties

Eastbound 36Z, one of many diverted trains passing through Bristol in last week, departs after crew change. At left is NS 22A tied down waiting on crew and clear track west.

Eastbound 23G seen through parked westbound 22A

E.B. 23G eases past 22A

Bristol Local waiting on NS 236 with containers to clear main