A rare SOU NW5 was in the storage dead line at Southern Railway Chattanooga facility

Five Southern geeps lead a freight on the Rat Hole. SOU 6268 started life as CofG 170 in April 1957.

1065 pulls a cut of cars under the C&O bridge which goes to Union Station , in the back ground is the C&O line to Indiana.

A Southern freight has picked up its train on the Ohio side from Cincinnati and now is crossing over the Ohio River into Ludlow Ky. At one time you could walk across this bridge on foot but not n... (more)

Southern 2-8-0 #401

Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in December of 1907 for the Southern Railway Company. It was later sold in 1949 to the Alabama Asphaltic Limestone Company before eventu... (more)

Southern 4501 pulls her tool car and 7 coaches up the 1% grade west of McDonald, TN with little struggle. Based on what was said after the flawless run, we should be seeing a lot more of 4501 in t... (more)

Photographer- Brain J. Cudahy- from the 35 mm original Kodachrome slide. Southern, well, as Southern as she could be- 2716 roars up the Southern main returning to Alexandria from a Charlottesv... (more)

Southern Rwy trains #154 and #83 meeting at High Point, NC in August 1972.

Southern Rwy F7 #4264 leads westbound at Hickory, NC (February 1971)

Southern Railway Ks-1 Class Consolidation number 685 is shown between runs at the mountain division point of Asheville, North Carolina. The 685 was part of rather large group of similar engines on... (more)

Pictured in its last winter season as a Great Lakes (via NYC north of Cincinnati) to Miami (via Seaboard Air Line south of Jacksonville) coach-Pullman train, Southern's northbound "Florida Sunbeam... (more)

Eastbound coal train at Gate City, VA on the Appalachia Division behind three SD35s in July 1966.

With a quartet of F3's, Southern's Train 68 has crested the grade at Balsam Gap, N.C. on the Murphy Branch on its way back to Asheville. If the crew is cool, perhaps they are unaware the nose do... (more)

Late in the steam era on Southern Railway, Ls-2 simple 2-8-8-2 4050 works the Bristol local upgrade just west of the crossing at Sunbright, VA. The grade is nearly two percent at this point. Both ... (more)