One of the strange and unusual, but not surprising find is this Nashville & Eastern former General Electric Leasing.(LMX) B39-8E number 8572 which is renumber into N&E 8573 once this unit was acqu... (more)

Nashville's only commuter train, The Music City Star, has finished its last run of the morning and is returning to home base in Lebanon.

Announced today, a new 501c(3) not-for-profit, the Nashville Steam Preservation Society, is seeking a lease with Metro Nashville Parks ... (more)

CSX SW1500 #1112 resting at Nashville, TN || March 1989

Power for a coal train backs through the switches north of Union Station.

Seaboard System SW1500 #1117 at Nasvhille, TN || March 1991

The last outbound Music City Star commuter train of the morning leaves downtown Nashville.

A pair of early geeps being ferried for local service trail the newer power on a southbound freight coming off the Evansville line and through the Amqui plant. That's the Louisville main off to t... (more)

Former Burlington Northern E9 No. 9912 faces former Bessemer and Lake Erie F7 No. 715 at Nashville’s Tennessee Central Railway Museum on a rainy May 9, 2014. To quote Neil Young, “Rust never s... (more)

L&N 2768 and another U23B start south with an intermodal train back in a time when trailers were still more common than containers. Don't usually think of U23Bs as best choice for this sort of se... (more)

L&N 3005 sits at the head of its train at the south end of Union Station's trainshed. As passenger service shrank, L&N used the trackage around Union Station more and more to accommodate freight ... (more)

As the parties in Nashville begin, a long night for the new crew of L025 begins as well. With two CSX AC6000CWs and an HLCX SD40-2 for power, the train switches crews at Kayne Tower in downtown Na... (more)

NERR 573, a former BNSF Dash 8 sits idle in the yard on a hot July afternoon. 573 is joined on the NERR by other former BNSF power that sits in the background as the skyline of Music City looks on... (more)

A coal train cools its heels as the Floridian pulls away from Union Station.

Passing under the clock tower for Nashville Union Station, E01511 struggles out of the gulch at South End. CN assigned this solo leaser SD40-2 to 103 empty CSXT bathtub gons from Chicago, IL/CN t... (more)