NS 362-10 catches the last vestiges of dusk, as the kids and I got the fire ready for cooking dinner on our Coronavirus compliant choo-choo camping trip.

Precision Scheduled Railroading train 101-10 from Bulls Gap, TN to Memphis, TN/UP works just about every yard with more than 5 tracks and will swap power for UP motors at Sheffield, with only the ... (more)

After meeting one at Alaten, the 6,015ft long ethanol train CSX K443-21 (Chicago,IL/CP-Lawrenceville,GA) is cruising pass the new New Hope Community sign at the bottom of Hogjaw hill. The train is... (more)

The lone GP38-2 is head back north on the CSX Chattanooga Sub for Widows Creek in Stevenson, AL after ending the day run to Wauhatchie. This W298-18 (Bridgeport,AL-Stilesboro,GA) is actually the W... (more)

The moderate to heavy rain ease for just a brief moment as CSX K443-21 (Chicago,IL/CP-Lawrenceville,GA), but the wet rails give the crew a fit as they drag 13,045 tons of steel, and ethanol over ... (more)

Northbound CSX Q580-24 (Charlotte,NC-Nashville,TN) is running at track speed just south of historic downtown Stevenson as the sun peak out for a brief moment. With rail traffic being on the light ... (more)

NS 23N-10 is running over CSX trackage rights from Wauhatchie, TN to Stevenson, AL as CSX Z38010. While I wish it was still SD70 2524, I do like the look of the ACC rebuilds.

The sound of an approaching train thunders off the mountain as CSX Q583-18 (Nashville,TN-Atlanta,GA) eases it's way south on the main 1 track in Wildwood, GA . The pair of 8500 series SD50-2s is l... (more)

With all the madness that's been circling social media partaining to COVID-19 I decided to go do some hiking in a very remote and undershot location along the Chatt Sub last weekend. No service, n... (more)

CSXT GP Units sit in front of the Depot in Tullahoma TN

NS run through mixed freight has them throttled up as it makes a run for the steep Raccoon Mountain grade during a heavy snow shower that dumped nearly five inches on the greater Chattanooga area.

A pair of SD70ACe's leads the 115 car Tennessee Valley Authority empty coal bucket NS 73Z (Kingston,TN-Memphis,TN/BNSF) along the contour of the Tennessee River in New Hope, TN. With no meet plann... (more)

Southbound Q583 is in full dynamics as Northbound Q580 has them in notch 8 throttle climbing the steep Raccoon Mountain grade. Early morning snowfall dumped nearly five inches of wet snow on the C... (more)

Snow and the South is not a good combination. A normally 12 minute drive took me nearly two hours to get to the top of Racoon Mountain due to pile ups and cars in ditches everywhere along I-24 and... (more)

After getting the signal from NS to zig-zag across the new track layout at 23rd St, CSX Q580-07 (Greenwood,SC-Nashville,TN) pounds the high-speed switches as the northbound freight crosses back ov... (more)