As the sun fades away on this late summer evening, so does an end of an era in the greater northeast Alabama area. CSX N057-23 (Stevenson,AL-Evansville,IN/EVWR) is polishing the rail through the quiet town of Stevenson on the long trek back to the heart of the Illinois Basin After departing Widows Creek. For more than 60 years TVA’s Widows Creek Fossil has been generating 1.5-gigawatts for the Tennessee Valley, and Northeast Alabama area and at one time the plant would four trains a day during the height of its days. With the announcement that Widows Creek was to be decommission in September of 2015 it's a sobering reality that TVA is pressing ahead with clean energy in the future.
Railroading is a 24 hour a day business, that never sleep. From sunset to sunrise the railroad must run. These image are taken by some of the best rail photographer out their.
