After departing Grand Junction Station right on the advertised, Southern Railway 4501, with the Summerville Steam Special in tow, glides across the South Chickamauga Creek, about half a mile into ... (more)

Roster shot of Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railway GP38 #80, in service at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. This unit originally belonged to the TAG, was repainted by Southern after the SOU ... (more)

CSX Q675-12 (Hamlet,NC-Nashville,TN) blast north as it clear the North-End Boyce block on the CSX Western & Atlantic Sub (WA) on it's long trek for Radnor Classification Yard in Nashville, TN. No... (more)

Southern #630 arrives at Grand Junction station with the 11 am Missionary Ridge Local. On this particular weekend the TVRM was hosting Thomas the Tank Engine. The train seen on the siding next to ... (more)

Veteran Engineer Mr. Bray (now retired) poses for the camera as he "pop the clutch," and get the northbound CSX Q210-04 (Dixiana,SC-Louisville,KY) underway for the Wauhatchie Yard lead at Lookout ... (more)

Southern 630 shoves back up the East Leg of the wye at Grand Junction. They will then glide down the West Leg and to East Chattanooga.

As the year 2012 draws to a close, was watch a pair of BNSF SD70MAC leads the empty Georgia Power coal bucket NS 733 (Juliette,GA-Memphis,TN/BNSF) through the 23rd St. Interlock as the train head ... (more)

With the Knoxville crew on board, NS 162 (Sheffield,AL-Linwood,NC) is ready to head north for the West-End Div. The train will make a run through the night to Knoxville, TN then will shoot east to... (more)

Over the previous years Norfolk Southern has brought their Operation Awareness & Response-OAR train into Chattanooga, TN for all the First Responder in the general area, to learn from the Norfolk ... (more)

Tennessee Alabama & Georgia (TAG) 80 is seen here on leading TVRM 225 Dinner Train Special down Chattanooga Belt Line through the Avondale community on a quite Saturday evening. As ... (more)

With headlights shining through the smoke, steam, and darkness, Southern Railway engines 4501 and 630 pose at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's East Chattanooga station and shop complex durin... (more)

The 4501 has been serviced, fired up and is ready to be turned on the turntable and parked for the night as it will substitute for the 630 on the Missionary Ridge Local while the 630 gets a boiler... (more)

Southern 630, with the help of Engineer Nick, Fireman Travis, and Trainee Tyler, glides back into Grand Junction Depot with TVRM 100, the daily "Missionary Ridge Local", as seen through ... (more)

NS708 lead by a duo of freshly rebuilt AC44C6M's bringing the long heavy loaded coal train down the steep Raccoon Mountain Grade and off of the CSXT Chattanooga Subdivision and onto the NS Alabama... (more)

Southern 2-8-0 630 pops out of the Missionary Ridge Tunnel with a freight consist during a Lerro Productions Charter on the Tennessee Valley Railroad.