CSX N101-15 (Evansville,IN/EVWR-Cross,SC) is on the final leg of this segment of the journey on the Chattanooga Sub. The Santee Cooper coal bucket will continue down the mountain till it arrives a... (more)

A nice quartet of units lead heavy southbound manifest Q581 south down Raccoon Mountain on the Chattanooga Subdivision.

An increasingly rare trio of YN2 units led by a classic "Super Six" take a coal train south as it rolls down the Wauhatchie Yard freight lead coming down the Chattanooga Sub.

Cutting through thick mountain fog is the northbound empty CSX Q212-21 (Waycross,GA-Louisville,KY) taking on Raccoon mountain on this on this wet morning on the CSX Chattanooga Sub.

The Widow Creek trun CSX Q584-26 (Chattanooga,TN-Stevenson,AL) is starting up Raccoon Mountain on the main 2 track after coming off the Wauhatchie Yard lead. An uncommon sight on this train is the... (more)

CSX M750-20 is on the rear of the massive CSX X675-18 (Hamlet, NC-Nashville,TN) helping the train to get over the crest of the Raccoon Mountain grade.

NS 362 (CSX Z354-21) is slowing bringing its train to a safe stop after hitting the Wildwood Dragging Detector (DD) setting it off. It was axle 110 in the consist that giving the train problem at ... (more)

Loaded coal train N208 heads onto the bridge that is on the Wauhatchie Yard lead which soars over NS's AGS North District. The train would tie down for several hours until a crew was called in ord... (more)

A fairly unconventional couple of units for a coal train around these parts lead the train south as it descends Raccoon Mountain on the outskirts of Chattanooga.

CSX Q582-30 (Atlanta,GA-Nashville,TN) is laying the sand as the two motors is dragging the 9,575ft of train up Raccoon Mountain, meantime coasting down grade on the main 2 track the journey is alm... (more)

A CEFX bluebird leads loaded racks from Lawrenceville, GA and empties from Cayce, SC up the mountain at Hooker on the Chattanooga Sub.

The GE Southern heritage unit shoves on a northbound extra empty coal train on NS's Chattanooga to Birmingham main. Seen passing under CSX train Q210 on the Wauhatchie Yard lead.

I was floored that I was the only photographer at this spot, with the modern signal providing juxtaposition and I knew he'd be balling the jack.

Q210-16's departure from Wauhatchie Yard was the third time in two days I had seen this exact train. First on the Abbeville Subdivision, next at Dalton on the W&A Sub, and now on CSX's scenic Chat... (more)

NS northbound empty grain train 51A operates on trackage rights over CSX's Chattanooga Sub as it heads for home rails in Stevenson, AL.