A GP-7 & a late model GP-9 used to commonly show up and just wait around until the the train of coal for the Kingston plant showed up. I think it all moves in unit trains now.
I my advanced age and decrepidy I often seen a shot like this and wonder, "What possessed me to be in Emory Gap two days after Christmas?". No idea but TVA was there to pick up their train from N... (more)
One of TC's 16 Mikados rests at Emory Gap, TN in September 1953 in this rare Tennessee Central color steam image. Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.