A very colorful southbound manifest heads toward Etowah after setting out and picking up cars in Knoxville. The leaser rush that CSX has seen lately will soon die down, making scenes like this one... (more)

A westbound manifest meanders through downtown Knoxville on its way to Chattanooga and the Birmingham, Alabama.

With four ex-NS GP38s in the consist, X542 is crossing the Tennessee River into CSX's small yard near downtown Knoxville, heading north.

With the empty limestone hoppers of train 69W (lead by 9624) stopped in the siding, T69 rolls by on the main with a sweet trio of SD40-2s leading.

Two EMD SD40-2 locomotives lead a train of ethanol empties across the bridge that CSX painted orange in support of the University of Tennessee Volunteers. The second trailing locomotive had died s... (more)

An Ex-Burlington Northern SD40-2 leads NS Clinton local T12 north today, under nearly perfect conditions.

A standard cab SD70 led NS 42G all the way from Burnside, Kentucky to Knoxville, and continued to lead to Loudon, Tennessee. This train had only two locomotives coming into Burnside and needed the... (more)

Last of her kind. The SD70 would prove to be the final EMD model to sport the iconic "standard" cab, which had defined the look of all EMD-produced locomotives for decades. Here, ... (more)

Back where my day began. After a long, hot day of railfaning the Knoxville area, I photograph my last train of the day, in the same spot I shot the first one of the day. NS 15T rolls west through ... (more)

A meeting downtown. NS 69W cruises eastbound into downtown Knoxville on Main 1, passing a stopped westbound 131 on Main 2. There was a time back in the Southern Railway days, when this rath... (more)

Freshly painted SD80MAC 7217 (former CSX 4590) leads eastbound train 162 through downtown Knoxville enroute to John Sevier Yard for a crew change before continuing east to Linwood, NC.

In the early morning light, NS 56G sits at Baxter Ave. awaiting the arrival of a fresh crew to take the train to Loudon. Four high horsepower units, including a Dash 9 from NS' first widecab GE or... (more)

While waiting with several other railfans for NS 132, with the CNJ Heritage unit leading, to come east into Knoxville, NS 15T rolled by westbound with a nice ex-Conrail leader. The second unit was... (more)

NS 162 arrives in Knoxville behind a pair of elephant style GEs, with a CP leader.

A northbound CSX ballast train parallels Alcoa Highway between Singleton and Vestal on the KD Subdivision.