Southern Railway 5000 rests in the display yard beside the other highhoods as it waits to depart Grand Junction with the Dinner on the Diner.

On the last official day of winter the quiet air that blanket East Chattanooga was broken by the sound of TVRM Nº 225 as it cruises westbound as the four car train crossing the Awtry Street bridg... (more)

TVRM 225 makes its way towards Missionary Ridge Tunnel as the rain continues to fall necessarily on the railroad as the saying goes, but it was certainly falling on me.

spinning 5000 on the turntable.

5000 eastbound on the main line.

TVRM 225 crosses Tunnel Boulevard as Southern 5000, or Andre as some of us at work call it (lets see how many people can figure out why it's called that), leads the first Valentine's Dinner train ... (more)

All 3 of Southerns GP40X`s lead 144 @ Chattanooga Tn

Southern Dinner Train. This nicely-maintained GP38 rests on a Saturday afternoon before pulling the Valentine's Dinner Train that evening. My wife and I would ride behind this train and en... (more)

A matched trio of Southern Railway GP50s hurry a hot shot freight up the Washington Division on a bitterly cold mid-winter morning. The undulating terrain of the Northern Virginia Piedmont is clea... (more)

Southern's first proper GP38-2 idles in the Grand Junction yard awaiting the evening departure of the Valentine's Dinner on the Diner.

Southern 3170 and 2594 on display at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.

Southern 4501 departs Grand Junction with TVRM 100, the "Missionary Ridge Local." Off to the side is SOU 5000 waiting for its call to the dinner train later that evening.

Tennessee Valley Railroad Grand Jct campus.

Southern E8(a)s 6900-6914-6904 depart Peachtree Station in Atlanta, Georgia with Southern #1, the Southern Crescent circa 1970/1971. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo