Toting a hefty cut of loaded aluminum ingot flatcars, ATRR 9 shoves out of South Plant yard preparing to make the 2 mile jaunt to North Plant.

ATRR's morning inter-plant transfer run backs into South yard with a pair outbound highcube loads for CSX L665 (waiting out of frame to enter the yard after ATRR 9 clears), and the regular slew o... (more)

NS K&A branch local T21 pauses at South Plant having just met an outbound ATRR run as the crew awaits permission into Arconic's South Plant yard. During the 30 or so minutes of waiting CSX L665, A... (more)

ATRR Nº. 9 rushes over E. Hunt road with a pair of aluminum coil scrap flats bound for Arconic's South Plant.

After picking up empty ingot flats and aluminum coil loads from North Plant, Arconic Terminal's inter-plant train hustles back towards South Plant through the picturesque countryside of Alcoa, TN.... (more)

PRLX 2374 shoves in the evening ATRR train into South Plant yard with empty ingot gons and a handful of coil filled boxcars.

LTEX 1546–originally built for the Southern Pacific as 2699–totes a short consist of captive service cars as it runs a transfer job between Arconic's (formerly Alcoa Metals) North, and South P... (more)

The CSX Alcoa local is making it's journey home late in the evening this day, passing by the Green Meadow Country Club then on to Armona where it will switch onto the KD Sub and back to Knoxville.

The CSX Alcoa local with engine 2311 Road Slug leaves the South Plant with its one car train.

A high hood GP38-2 single-handedly leads the Alcoa local south during the late afternoon.

C740 rolls over the Little River on its way back to Knoxville with just one boxcar in tow. Spring is in full swing in east Tennessee, as evidenced by the beautiful blooms along the river.

T-21 is the daily turn to Alcoa on the Norfolk Southern K&A branch line. Here the crew is shoving the last cut if cars in the yard before they begin the process of retrieving cars to take back to ... (more)

It's good to be back she must be saying. The southbound excursion is nearing the Georgia Pacific track where her stent will be over.

Southern Railway 154 (KXHR 154) has arrived in Alcoa, TN on the NS Maryville Branch with a Lexington Group excursion. This private trip operated as part of the Norfolk Southern's 21st Century Ste... (more)

Southern Railway 154 (KXHR 154) blasts through a tree tunnel with a bit of remaining fall color at Grade Road on the NS Maryville Branch with a Lexington Group excursion. This private trip operat... (more)