KXHR 8214 sits dormant with a cut of empty cement hoppers on the outskirts of the University of Tennessee Knoxville campus amid an increasingly common extreme torrential downpour.

A pair of Knoxville Locomotive Works SE15Bs pull cars transported via barge across New York's Upper Bay into Brooklyn yard. Once empty the barge will be loaded with New Jersey bound cars and sent ... (more)

It’s just after 12:30pm on Tuesday, June 27th as P&W 2006, one of two GP38-2s bracketing today’s PR-3 wobbles east down the degrading Providence Journal spur to retrieve a trio of empty paper ... (more)

For the first time in 2022, KXHR's SW600–number 9, traverses the rather forlorn K-Line bound for Phillips 66 with a single car in tow and engineer Rick Jones at the throttle. Yesterday’s move ... (more)

Steamtown National Park's Scranton Limited excursion headed up by Nickel Plate GP9 no. 514 cruises south on the former DL&W freight mainline under a set of now defunct US&S color lights. To the ri... (more)

Lhoist North America, located in Crab Orchard, TN just off of I-40 between Knoxville and Nashville is home to an eclectic mix of motive power, but most notably their high hooded former Southern Ra... (more)

Toting a hefty cut of loaded aluminum ingot flatcars, ATRR 9 shoves out of South Plant yard preparing to make the 2 mile jaunt to North Plant.

Tucked behind trailers amid industrial downtown Nashville are 3 B23-7s, and while NWR 4245 (out of scene) remains mostly in-tact, counterpart 4219 and its Conrail cousin have suffered the repercus... (more)

Ruth bound copper ore empties rattle west through the high desert of East Ely, NV behind a pair of classic Kennecott Copper Corporation ALCo RS's, (RS3 no. 9 and RS2 no. 5 to be specific). Though ... (more)

PR-3 cruises out from under the former New York New Haven and Hartford Pawtucket - Central Falls station as they proceed south towards Providence to work the Providence Journal and eventually Port... (more)

Blue-bonnet in the Music City? While this unusual Tennessean scene might seem out of the ordinary it is assuredly normal, reinforced by yet another of these former Santa Fe B23-7 sitting behind tr... (more)

Released from KLW on March 21st, engine number 8214 is the latest addition to the Knoxville and Holston River Railroad (KXHR) fleet. 8214, an NZESE15BDET4L has had an interesting rebuild history, ... (more)

WRRX 1277, built for the C&NW pauses briefly with a cut of loaded scrap gondolas before continuing about its switching duties. 1277 is employed by the CMC (formerly Gerdau) steel mill in Knoxville... (more)

Coal is no longer the 'king' it once was on CSX’s former Clinchfield mainline. Mines and tipples–both large and small alike have continued shudder across the region since the late 1980’s fol... (more)