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.

A busy day was unfolding at CSX West Knoxville yard with R540-23 picking up its daily set of cars, Y101 working the south yard, and Q541-22 flying by on the mainline.

Southbound manifest R539 is only a few miles out of West Knoxville Yard, heading toward Singleton siding, where he will have to stop and meet a northbound. The signals at this location are a bit o... (more)

A very short C740 local heads south toward Armona, passing the signal at I.C. King Park. This GP30 road slug/GP40-2 mother set usually stays around the Knoxville area, and often serves as yard pow... (more)

Loaded ballast train 934 arriving in Knoxville at City Yard.

NS T21, the "K&A Local" is seen crossing the Tennessee River returning to downtown after performing it's work south of Knoxville. T21 is a turn that runs from Sevier Yard to the Maryvill... (more)

On a Friday morning made damp by the previous evenings rains, grain empties head back north for another load. This train would make it as far as Coster before the crew's time ran out. Another crew... (more)

Two for one. With the downtown Knoxville skyline in the distance, coal empties powered by a pair of AC GEVOS, roll north across the Tennessee River on a bridge that dates back to the L&N da... (more)

A UP pool power AC4400 leads NS 163 hightailing it west out of Knoxville, passing through the small suburb of Concord. A small section of Concord Marina can be seen across Fort Loudon lake directl... (more)