The day after Christmas presented many photography opportunities, such as this southbound manifest.
The 2014 CSX Santa Train speeds through Starnes on a very nice November day. As I take this photo, a railroad great, Mr. Ron Flanary, stands next to me.
One of the last YN2 SD70Ms on the CSX roster leads an empty phosphate train south through Singleton.
Driving at 60 miles per hour along U.S. Highway 27, pacing this southbound grain train, a fellow rail photographer tells me that I have about five seconds to get a really cool shot at this upcomin... (more)
A good friend of mine and I made a trek up the KD to Corbin, Kentucky hoping to follow a train back south to Knoxville. What we ended up doing was following a 20 car coal local from the yard to it... (more)
An empty coal train clears the crossing of snow as it grinds up the grade from a dead stop.
The cleanest standard cab of the day was this SD50 in Boxcar Logo leading a southbound loaded rail train across the Clinch River.
Two EMD SD40-2 locomotives lead a train of ethanol empties across the bridge that CSX painted orange in support of the University of Tennessee Volunteers. The second trailing locomotive had died s... (more)
A CN standard cab leads another CN south on the KD Subdivision, about to begin the assault on Duff Mountain.
A classic EMD SD60 leads a southbound AGS freight past the crossover at Wauhatchie. There is another SD60 behind this one, and then four more EMDs. This is a train that was worthy of chasin for mi... (more)
A mine run from Corbin makes its way through fresh snow on the way to Resource mine. The trip would be cut short due to flooding on the C&M Branch.
An Ex-Union Pacific SD90MAC leads an empty autorack train westbound around the curves in downtown Jefferson City, Tennessee.
A northbound empty Stilesboro, GA coal train passes an empty U741-19 that has just dumped at Bull Run Steam Plant.
NS 162 slowly crawls through Knoxville, TN behind a western visitor.
In the backwoods of rural Morgan County, Tennessee, a Dash 9 leads a southbound intermodal/rack combo out of Tunnel 24.
