Western power leads K443 down the South slope of Cumberland Mountain on a busy Spring afternoon along the Chattanooga Sub.

G378 splits the rock walls at Tantallon with a 80 car loaded grain train. With less then two hours left to work the crew will get nothing but highballs for the remaining journey into Wauhatchie.

After working Lhoist North America a few miles south of here at Anderson, the daily Tullahoma turn heads back North as it enters the first cut at Tantallon with about 20 loaded lime hoppers in tow... (more)

After running around a stalled Q585 on main two, loaded grain train G362 crests the mountain at Whiteside at a walking speed. The two AC44's were down to 2-3 MPH for most of the climb up the steep... (more)

A heavy rain shower sets the scene as a short trackage rights train NS 102 crests Raccoon Mountain with ease. I was dodging thunderstorms all day on this particular day as a severe weather event w... (more)

A gaggle of BNSF power leads Los Angeles bound intermodal 265 around Nickajack Lake late in the evening. The train was nearly three miles long and stretched all the way around the causeway.

The setting sun provides a scenic backdrop as loaded Bryce bound coal train N904 skirts along Nickajack Lake at a good pace. It will shortly begin it's assault up Raccoon Mountain.

15T exits the darkness of Lookout Mountain Tunnel with the Illinois Terminal heritage unit leading. The green paint almost matches the green foliage.

The silence of the night is interrupted by the roar of Northbound intermodal train 23N as it tops the Raccoon Mountain Grade at Whiteside, TN. Seen from inside the portal of 160+ year old Whitesid... (more)

Bulls Gap, TN bound train 102 curves along the banks of Nickajack Lake on a beautiful late Winter morning.

After waiting on a couple Southbound's ahead of it to get pushed across the mountain, finally it's Q647's turn to take a shot at the steep grade. The rain and wet rails would prove to be a non fac... (more)

With the dynamics set in the full position and the air drawn down Q585 is nearing the bottom of the steep Cumberland Mountain Grade as it passes through Big Hormady Cut, the largest of the many cu... (more)

A former L&N GP38-2 leads Tullahoma, TN - Widow's Creek, AL turn M780 down Cumberland Mountain and into the final cut at Tantallon. The whines of first generation EMD dynamic brakes could be heard... (more)

NS's specially painted first SD70ACC adds some color to a otherwise dark and gloomy day in the Southeast as it splits the rock walls of the large cut at Haletown, TN leading 365 towards Sheffield,... (more)

NS's specially painted first SD70ACC adds some color to a otherwise dark and gloomy day in the Southeast as it splits the rock walls of the large cut at Haletown, TN leading 365 towards Sheffield,... (more)