METRA trainsets lay silent in the Elgin coach yard, awaiting tomorrow's rush of passengers into Chicago.
An SD40-2 waits quietly in the night for the weekend to expire, in anticipation of another work week.
As this motive power sits silently, the grunts and groans of the Bowater Paper plant can be distinctly heard off in the distance.
NS's OCS heads south between Spring City and Dayton, TN on a day that started out sunny, and later turned to a downpour of rain.
Its rare to see snow in the Tennessee Valley area. The Rome (GA) local heads for DeButts Yard in Chattanooga to swap out cars.
Back when the "Dinky Parade" was powered by classics...
An ex-Conrail SD40-2 - now lookin' good in YN3 - sits with its work train overnight on the house track in Ringgold, GA.
Sometimes railfans don't get sun - especially when a railroad company runs an OCS, or a museum displays a restored locomotive alongside for a killer photo-op runby. Enroute from Chicago to Atlant... (more)
Birmingham bound; Covenant College on top of Lookout Mountain in the background.
An empty Georgia Power train crosses the Tennessee River (via two bridges with "Long Island" in the middle) and heads back to the western coal fields for more lignite.
A local L&N freight trundles away along a rural Tennessee branchline. In reality, SARM recreates a memory of a bygone era.
BELCH!!! 1315 throttles up at "Kudzu Hill" along TN 327 as it heads back to the former K-25 complex.
An OCS deadhead move heads down the Knoxville Line to Chattanooga.
An NS train with UP power passes by Nickajack Lake on the Tennessee River as it heads from Memphis to Chattanooga.
Some newer CN power heads up a southbound NS train.
