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)

Powder River coal empties from TVA's Kingston Plant roll over the old Tennessee Central bridge in Harriman, as the crew wye the entire train, to head back to Chattanooga. The solid BNSF power (inc... (more)

After diverging from the main 2 track and onto the single main at Control-Point (CP) Pierce, NS 73Z (Kingston,TN-Memphis,TN/BNSF) coast down hill heading to the crew change point of Cameron on the... (more)

After coming around the curve we're at the bottom of Pine Ridge grade on the NS Emory Gap Line (EG). NS 73Z (Kingsport,TN-Chattanooga, TN/CSX) an empty TVA train is making its way south back to Em... (more)

An executive scheme SD70MAC pushes empty Powder River Basin coal train 73Z over the Emory River as it begins it's trip down the 3rd district of the CNO&TP.

A 110-car loaded Powder River coal train eases across the old Tennessee Central bridge in historic downtown Harriman. The train will pull onto the K&O, back down to Harriman Junction, then pull ba... (more)

NS coal train 73Z heads up the Oakdale Line behind a pair of BNSF units.

Coal train 73Z slows for a crew change as set of power makes a pick up.

Empty TVA Kingston coal train races under the I-40 bridge (seen in the background) and out of town toward Chattanooga for the return trip west.

Two late model motors power 73Z as it eases over the Emory River in a thick fog on a mission to point the train back west for its journey home.

With two late model motors on the front, 73Z pulls onto the K&O to facilitate turning their train back toward the west as leaving TVA Kingston.

BNSF power leads train 73Z across the bridge in Harriman.

The conductor on 179 rides the rear platform as it makes a pickup in the yard as BNSF power leads train 73Z past it.

After a grade crossing collision in downtown Huntsville (the driver went around the crossing gates; the rear of the vehicle was hit and no one was hurt), an empty TVA Plant Kingston train continue... (more)

An empty coal train returning to the Powder River Basin from TVA's Kingston Plant in Harriman, TN crosses the Tennessee River drawbridge, startling the pigeons which tend to congregate atop the br... (more)