Former Buffalo Creek & Gauley 2-8-0 now dressed up as Southern 604 gets a little attention before the days activities around the North Carolina Transportation Museum.

TL Scott. 2/27/1944 - 5/21/2025. On Wednesday May 21, 2025 I lost my Dad and dear friend TL Scott. It just seemed appropriate to dig into his slide collection tonight and find something good... (more)

Though early orders of GP38-2s used oil bath air filters that was changed to paper filters on subsequent orders as evidenced by this unit. Photo bt TC Caughman.

Southern, like it successor, took a "wait and see" attitude toward new technology as evidenced by the use of oil bath air filtration on the early order of these units as built. This was changed i... (more)

To SD35s and one 45 are leading a section of a westbound freight. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.

The handwriting was on the wall when this huge string of power was stored, apparently due to a business downturn. Some operated until 1986 when their fuel tanks were removed to go to GP38s and th... (more)

Almost five years after the advent of Norfolk Southern a nicely matched set of predecessor power is southbound. Photo by Jim Satterwhite.

Photo by Dave Petke. From my collection.

Southern 2601 at the yard limits for the North Carolina Transportation Museum

SW1500 2336 and slug 915 are switching in the yard at Chattanooga Tennessee.

A Southern Rwy scale test car sits in the Wheel Balancing Shed at Spencer shops, NC. The shed, built in 1944, houses a set of eight Fairbanks scales connected to the tracks where steam locomotives... (more)

Southern 630 and 4501 Doubleheading a Summerville Steam Special across the Chattooga River in Trion on Armistice Day 2018 for the 100th year since World War 1 ended

A beauty deserves a portrait in their best outfit and IMHO it didn't get no better than this one.

Southern locomotives behind the wall at TVRM.

Southern Railway 2-8-2 #4501 & SD40 #3170 bring a NS '21st Century Steam' excursion by the south end of the siding at Wytheville after a meet with a northbound manifest