Closing out the initial day of Railfest 2014, newly restored #4501 doubleheads a deadhead run to East Chattanooga with #630. Thus ends the first day of public operation for #4501 since 1998.

It has been 16 years since the face of Southern Railway Steam, ran the high iron pulling railfans alike throughout the Southern Railway and Norfolk Southern System for nearly 48 years. Today South... (more)

Southern 2-8-0 #630 and 2-8-2 #4501 simmers side by side in the sunset at Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's Soule Shops in Chattanooga, TN, the evening prior to TVRM's "Railfest". Pho... (more)

4501 backs out of the Soule Shops Thursday night.

Southern Railway 4501 returned to life today, as sister 630 looks on.

A trio of Southern SD's lead by the 3310 heads west as they near Louisville.

With brush and weeds growing around it a Southern SW1 rusts to the rails in Wadley Ga.

In its final weeks wearing Southern paint GP38-2 5108 works the Whitner yard.

This is a snap shot taken by an unknown photographer. The print has been in my collection for decades, and I have no recollection of where it came from. However, I do know this is train 46, the no... (more)

Stearns, KY was roughly mid-way between Cincinnati and Chattanooga on Southern Railway's Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific subsidiary. A northbound local behind heavy USRA Mike 6319 (Souther... (more)

A crew heads back to the yard with a cut of cars from the Cooper River port area downtown.

A GP38-2 leads a Spartanburg freight into Andrews Yard as another Dash-2 handles a switch job.

Brand-new 5224 switches North Charleston. That pulpwood may be headed for Westvaco's plant on the Cooper River a couple miles south of here.

Snow is just starting to spit as a pair of GP50s - one SOU/one NS - assisted by a Mopac GP38 bring a northbound into Rome.

A westbound train - probably #45 - clunks across the WofA mainline in Opelika on a typically hazy late spring day in Alabama.