"Rosie the Riveter" takes a break from her night shift at the Southern Railways locomotive shops during the height of World War II. Since the outbreak of the war, women have been pressed... (more)

Servin' the South. A Southern Railway Freight rumbles through a residential neighborhood in the small, unincorporated community of Lytle, Georgia, on its way south to Chickamauga, Lafayette... (more)

Freight rules the night. The passenger platform at East Chattanooga Depot is deserted this night, with the last of the day's commuter trains having departed hours ago. Despite the apparen... (more)

Westbound Southern Freight. Shortly after leaving the Grand Junction Yard, a westbound Southern Freight slowly ambles across the South Chickamauga Creek Bridge toward downtown Chattanooga, ... (more)

Got smoke? The storied Southern Mikado #4501 bursts out of the west portal of the 19th century Missionary Ridge Tunnel in East Chattanooga, TN on a smokey run-by for photographers, during a... (more)

The engineer of the 117-year-old Mikado Class 2-8-2 #4501 gives the locomotive more throttle as it pulls a mixed freight consist into Grand Junction in Chattanooga. The train is pulling a mixed fr... (more)

Reporting for work. A pair of Southern Railway engine shop employees prepare to start the second shift near the turntable in the East Chattanooga Yard. Locomotive service jobs were among t... (more)

Bridges over South Chickamauga. A Southern Railway Freight rumbles across the steel girder bridge over South Chickamauga Creek, headed Compass East toward the Grand Junction Yard, roughly a... (more)

A mighty freight hog. The Fireman on Southern Railway Consolidation #630 leans out of his cab, watching for the Trainman's next signal to move, as his locomotive performs switching operatio... (more)

Leaving Snowy Jim Thorpe. A band of overnight snow showers have pretty much abated as Reading & Northern's #425 takes a passenger train north out of Jim Thorpe Station. The restored CNJ S... (more)

Morning fog blanketing the valley has not been burned off by the early morning sun as OSL 1068 approaches Heber City, UT

The Tennesee Valley Railroad Museum is home to not one, but two operational Southern Railways coal-fired steam locomotives. #630 is a 1904 American Locomotives 2-8-0 Consolidation.with over 46,000... (more)

This GP38 was built for the Tennessee Alabama & Georgia Railway in February 1968. When the Southern Railway bought out the TAG in 1970, the Southern shops converted the control stand to have the l... (more)

The Tennesee Valley Railroad Museum is home to not one, but two operational Southern Railways coal-fired steam locomotives. #630 is a 1904 American Locomotives 2-8-0 Consolidation.with over 46,000... (more)

The Southern Railways doubleheader steam train passes through Fairview, Georgia near the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. This was the site of a bloody 1863 American Civil War B... (more)