Late in the day the leader of the “Caitlyn” class roars through our small town headed for a crew change in Bristol.

Westbound intermodal with my first good shot of the new Tier 4s.

Eastbound by a shallow pond that teems with carp this merchandise train is slowing for the many curves that punctuate the short narrows of Holston River’s Middle Fork.

Coming off the former Clinchfield heading for a connection with the old SAL Atlanta Division main at Monroe this loaded coal train is sanding and and roaring to get get a roll on.

A solid string of Fs on SCL was rather odd even in those days. Here a northbound freight of the former ACL, ex AB&C crosses over Southern's GS&F line. Former Seaboard Savannah-Montgomery line di... (more)

EB merchandise with a GEnder bender in late afternoon light

Lancaster & Chester’s crew tied up their train in the small yard and went to the feed mill to get an empty NS unit grain train. They are heading now west to the NS interchange in Chester.

A Lancaster & Chester crew is making up an empty unit train to return to home rails at Chester.

The Herzog Automated Conveyor Train has done it’s thing so the power is running to the other end to head back east.

The business end of Herzog’s Automated Conveyor Train. Similar in use to DumpTrain, the one uses a much different mechanical system.

Photographer unknown.

Testing track, research cars #s 34 & 33 follow a unit down the main near the old roundhouse, now repurposed. They had just backed thru the siding are coming down the main to tie up on a yard trac... (more)

Testing track, research cars #s 34 & 33 follow a unit down the main by the beautifully restored station, now a meeting and event venue. They will go west to the end of siding (CP Ford), reverse, ... (more)

It’s relatively rare for a train to stop in town here but for some reason this southbound one did, laying off the big crossings. Lead unit was built as a C44-8W. These were unique to CSX and soo... (more)

A pleasant afternoon at the “Funnel” sees a couple enjoying the shake, rattle and roll of a mixed merchandise train coming off the line from Waycross.