The Music City Star leans around the elevated curve that leads into the Donelson station. This is Nashville's only commuter train. MCS 121 is the former Amtrak 398.

This southbound grain train rolls through an elevated curve after knocking down Sadlersville and heads for the Red River valley at maximum track speed.

A Road Slug/Mother combo leads this empty ballast train south across the West Fork of the Stones River.

A rather oddly lettered ES44DC and a C40-8 sporting YN3 paint lead a load of new cars south between Fosterville and Bell Buckle, TN. The yield sign at this rural crossing is one of several such s... (more)

It's a lazy Sunday afternoon in the small hamlet of Fosterville as this autorack rumbles through. Yellows and blues dominate the scene.

Three new "How Tomorrow Moves" ES44AC's (965, 981, 982) with the new CSX logo head up this mixed freight rolling into Nashville. They are on the trestle leading up to the Cumberland River bridge,... (more)

Nashville's only commuter train has just left downtown (visible in the background) on its first run of the day and is coming through the switch that will put it on the Nashville and Eastern main l... (more)

After waiting more than an hour for a train to appear, I was initially disappointed to see this one. Mis-matched power. A faded, dented and scratched CSX lead unit - even the size of the number ... (more)

It's a cool, sunny Saturday morning and Junior is making the rounds with his dad in the fuel truck. To kill some time while the yard power is filling, father and son practice a little football.

A pair of SD70MAC's have just passed Stones River National Cemetery, the final resting place of more than 6000 Union soldiers who fell in battle here 149 years ago. The rail line in this picture w... (more)

A friendly engineer hams it up for the camera as he rolls through Fosterville, TN with a load of auto racks on his way to Chattanooga.

149 years ago this month one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War was fought at this location, in large part to see who would control the railroad seen in this picture, then known as the Nash... (more)

Her 15 minutes of fame over, CSX 4025 no longer pulls the Santa train and has returned to her more mundane duties, such as pulling these hoppers through middle Tennessee. She still wears her new ... (more)

No Thanksgiving holiday for this crew. They're hauling a mixed load of freight northward across the West Fork of the Stone's River toward Nashville. A pair of ES44DC's (5427 and 5348) provide th... (more)

Contrails criss-cross the late Fall sky as CSX 7310 (C40-8W), 8084 (SD40-2), and 8720 (SD60) slow to a stop just north of the Murfreesboro depot. Switching activity ahead has temporarily haulted ... (more)