Crab Orchard, Tennessee.....a very quiet place at 1:30pm (central) on a beautiful Spring sunday. Two of the three B23-7's rest with the most recent addition, a GE 100 tonner.
The Franklin Minerals train creeps out of the tunnel under Roosevelt Mountain on its way to Rockwood to interchange.
The classic FIM GE's stroll into Rockwood to make their car swaps.
The Rockwood turn backs into their power into the shop to end the day.
Heading west the Rockwood turn crosses marshy springs that make up Fall Creek while passing through the Crab Orchard Mountains.
The 4021 & 4023 head up the Rockwood turn long hood forward with empties for the mine at Crab Orchard, TN.
The newest addition to the FIM Crab Orchard operation.
The processing plant dwarfs todays yard job as they switch hoppers on a beautiful Sunday morning.
Originally built as SOU 4021, this high hood spots a car in place for loading. FIM operates a section of the former Tennessee Central mainline just west of Rockwood, TN.
FIMX GEs are in full dynamic descending to the Piney Creek trestle with eastbound rock loads. Fuji Sensia 100, Olympus OM4, Zuiko 85mm f2
A former Norfolk Southern GE emerges from an old Tennessee Central tunnel with the Franklin Industrial's daily turn to Rockwood. Fuji Sensia 100, Olympus OM4, Zuiko 85mm f2
Franklin Minerals operates these veteran GE, seen here at Crab Orchard, TN.
