Back at Peachtree Station again but the leaves have begun to turn as the "Crescent", now with only three units prepares to depart for New Orleans. In the days before Amtrak.
it's a summer of change, new car, new wife and soon a new assignment. Here 4-unit power off the Southbound "Crescent" is coming off and the three replacements are in the distance at Pea... (more)
By the generosity of the Norfolk Southern our club was provided a tour of the then new yard. In a view from the tower we see some power moving cars around in the yard.
At the time, #4610 was THE pride of the fleet and there wasn't as much anticipation for a heritage fleet as there is now. Remember the "backlash" when they painted this back to black in... (more)
After finishing out its assignment on TVRM's Dinner Train the night before, Southern Railway 5000, the first GP38 purchased by the Southern rests on one of the exhibit tracks at Grand Junction In ... (more)
Southern Serves the South!! Earlier in the day, NS 786 arrived in to Columbia with it's usual at the time trio of NS ES40DCs leading. But 4th out, was the recently refurbished NS 3170 p... (more)
Even though the days of pulling TOFC freight through the Rathole or dragging wood chip hoppers over the Old Fort loops is over, this venerable work horse still gets to clean the carbon out of its ... (more)
The NS OCS passes TVRM as it rolls out of Chattanooga Tn
The Swapping High Hood Meet Up. It was an ironically odd pairing when Norfolk Southern SD40 3170 (née-Southern Railway/SOU 3170, 4/1971) was visiting the Southeastern Railway Museum (SRM/S... (more)
Hints of the Southern. The daily 12R run from Columbia suffered some mechanical issues and reversed into the yard to clear those up, with the head end waiting here near a remnant Southern ... (more)
Southern Railway GP30 2549 and GP38-2 5153 are idling at the Charlotte diesel servicing facility on a hot August day. 2549 has somehow lost it's SR nose herald.
NS 911 on the turn table as NS COO Paul Duncan speaks.
Southern 6900 looks on as NS 911 is sitting at the roundhouse
Southern Railway 3170 sitting at Grand Junction in the display yard on a cool Friday night
SOU 5000 leads the TVRM dinner train at the tunnel.
