Steamy East Broad Top: At the water plug. Oozing about as much steam as I could ever ask for, EBT's venerable "Mike" #15 pauses at the water plug adjacent to the shop building to... (more)

Foggy East Broad Top: The ash pit. EBT Mikado #15 sits at the ashing station as the hostlers dump ashes and clean her fire before turning the locomotive over to the crew who will run her fo... (more)

Foggy East Broad Top: Echoes of the Past. EBT Mikado #15 steams at the ash pit as her stablemate, Mikado #17 rests on an adjacent track. In days of old, multiple narrow gauge Mikados would... (more)

Foggy East Broad Top: Cleaning the Fire. EBT Mikado #15 sits at the ashing station as the hostlers clean her fire and dump ashes, before turning the locomotive over to the crew who will run... (more)

Foggy East Broad Top: Oozing Steam. Having just been turned to face south, EBT Mikado #15 sits on the Orbisonia Turntable just oozing steam from a number of sources. In the background, is ... (more)

Heave! EBT shop crew members lean hard on the push poles of the Orbisonia Turntable as they turn Mikado #15 to align her with the service track....and give us a rear-quarter view of their l... (more)

Foggy East Broad Top: The "Armstrong" Turntable. East Broad Top crews unlock their manual "Armstrong" Turntable as they prepare to rotate Mikado #15 onto the servicing t... (more)

Misty East Broad Top: Leaving the House. On a cool, misty fall morning, EBT's last operable Mike leaves the Orbisonia Round House to begin what would be the last of the railroad's Fall Spec... (more)

Trundlin' through Trion. Southern Railway Mikado #4501 takes a local freight across the Chattooga River in the town of Trion, GA. This rather interesting combination wood and steel trestle ... (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)

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)