A brace of Southern locos rest at the TVRM depot at Chattanooga Tn.

SOU GP30 #2594, SOU SD40-2 #3170 & SOU GP38-2 #5000 are seen here staged on the Chickamauga Creek Bridge in Chattanooga, TN. For the 2017 Railfest night photo shoot. A huge thanks to the TVRM & ev... (more)

SOU GP38-2 #5000, SOU SD40 #3170 & SOU GP30 #2594 are seen here staged on the Chickamauga Creek Bridge in Chattanooga, TN. For the 2017 Railfest night photo shoot. A huge thanks to the TVRM & ever... (more)

Five Southern locos at the TVRM 2017 railfest.

TVRM Railfest 2017 - The Night Photo Session. The most recent Southern Railway addition to the museum's fleet leads sisters 3170 and 2594 across the Chickamauga Creek Bridge.

TVRM Railfest 2017 - The Night Photo Session. Southern still serving the South

September 1983: A Chattanooga local on the newly formed Norfolk Southern heads out of town with a trio of Southern EMD's-2594, 3170, and 5000. But in reality: This is 2017 at Tennessee Valley Rai... (more)

I took a step back from the photo line to let others get their desired shots and a unique photo op presented itself. Here the train poses on the creek bridge as photographers get the shot. This re... (more)

Southern 4501 crosses the trestle over the South Fork of Powell River in East Stone Gap, Va. on the return portion of its circle excursion from Kingsport to St. Paul via the ex-CRR, St. Paul to No... (more)

"Bending the iron" at Monroe, when there was a yard there

The "Birmingham Special" is braking for its stop at Monroe

Southern steam 4501 exits the Missionary Ridge tunnel with the morning sunrays just reaching the smoke plume.