Southbound piggyback train departing Oakdale behind three Southern EMDs, November 1985.

What a great 1st day of Spring. F-units, growing greens and pretty purples. NS OCS out of Cincy rounds the curve between Harriman and Emory Gap.

A CWR train works at Dayton, TN.

An old Southern Railway Transfer Caboose waits its fate at Harriman.

A NS southbound grain train waits for a crew at Oakdale with a former Oakway leader.

Daily Cincy-Jax intermodal hotshot 229 roars upgrade on the (then) single track segment between Tateville and KD Tower. This was one of the massive 1963 line changes that eliminated the tunnel-inf... (more)

For more than four decades, the hottest train on the Rat Hole has been Cincinnati-Jacksonville intermodal 229. Led by a C39-8 that's now off the roster, 229 eases by a surfacing gang at the double... (more)

southbound SOU train crossing Tennessee River coming off "Rathole" division into Chatanooga, TN

NS 8867 leads two foreigners and a sulphur train through Spring City.

Cincinnati, Ohio-Jacksonville, Fla., intermodal NS 229 led by a veteran GE C40-8 races past the restored Southern Railway depot in Spring City, Tennessee on August 2, 2011. 229 has been a hot trai... (more)

Just south of Cumberland Falls on one of the 1963 line changes, the NS OCS sprints toward Knoxville. Shades of the Royal Palm.

An early NS Triple Crown Roadrailer cruises north on the Rat Hole at the north end of the Flat Rock to Cumberland Falls line change (1963).

Six EMD's lead 124 north over the Cumberland River Bridge.

UP power leads NS northbound 132 at Parkers Lake.

Southbound intermodal train 229 passes thru Somerset on Norfolk Southern's Rathole.