Sometimes, when the weather is less then optimal, rather then swapping out rolls of film, I like to take my chances with a pan. March 12th - I forget what year, was one of those days. Southern's... (more)

I take full responsibility for this one - I had a partially used roll of ASA 25 slide film and didn't feel like taking it out of the camera. I got word that one of Southern's local freights was du... (more)

A gal working for the Southern, aka, a "Southern Gal" is captured here at the East Chattanooga Yard performing some light maintenance on the railroad's 2-8-2 No. 4501.

A Southern Railways freight train highballs South through Grand Junction as part of the 2018 Lerro Productions event at the TVRM.

Southern 2-8-2 No. 4501 finds itself on the point, 2-8-0 No. 630 trailing, leading a late evening double header, captured west bound over the South Chickamauga Creek Bridge in Chattanooga, TN.

"Rosie the Riveter" takes a break from her night shift at the Southern Railways locomotive shops during the height of World War II. Since the outbreak of the war, women have been pressed... (more)

A Southern Railway double header featuring 2-8-0 #630 and 2-8-2 #4501 blasts through the exit of the 986-foot long Missionary Ridge Tunnel. The tunnel was built in 1858 by the East Tennessee and ... (more)

Southern Locomotives #4501 and #630 do some afternoon switching in preparation for the night photo shoot during the Lerro Productions charter at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.

Freight rules the night. The passenger platform at East Chattanooga Depot is deserted this night, with the last of the day's commuter trains having departed hours ago. Despite the apparen... (more)

Westbound Southern Freight. Shortly after leaving the Grand Junction Yard, a westbound Southern Freight slowly ambles across the South Chickamauga Creek Bridge toward downtown Chattanooga, ... (more)

Got smoke? The storied Southern Mikado #4501 bursts out of the west portal of the 19th century Missionary Ridge Tunnel in East Chattanooga, TN on a smokey run-by for photographers, during a... (more)

Southern Locomotives #4501 and #630 do some afternoon switching in preparation for the night photo shoot during the Lerro Productions charter at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.

The engineer of the 117-year-old Mikado Class 2-8-2 #4501 gives the locomotive more throttle as it pulls a mixed freight consist into Grand Junction in Chattanooga. The train is pulling a mixed fr... (more)

A late night double headed freight, led by Southern's 2-8-2 No. 4501630 trailed by 2-8-0 No. 630, heads west over the singled steel girder trestle over the South Chickamauga Creek. Captured duri... (more)

Southern Railway's 2-8-2 No. 4501 blasts out of the western portal of the 1858 built, 986-foot long Missionary Ridge Tunnel along the west end of the TVRM's main line. This was part of a two day ... (more)