With two late model motors on the front, 73Z pulls onto the K&O to facilitate turning their train back toward the west as leaving TVA Kingston.

Pokey reroute 17M makes an appearance on the K&O just east of Harriman. This portion of the line runs along the foot of Walden Ridge which can be seen rising behind the train.

A northbound intermodal, with all four units running elephant style, hustles under the signal bridge at Laurel and into the late evening sun.

The pushers of an mty TVA Kingston coal train rest just clear of the control point at "Strange" as the train awaits a fresh crew to run it back to Knoxville.

The local power at Emory Gap rests its wheels on one of the yard tracks just out from the yard office. The photograph was taken out the window while crossing the famous 12 track grade crossing tha... (more)

Ex Carolina Piedmont switcher (with reporting marks for Phillips Metals) sits on the shop track at the Southern Appalachia RR Museum. I haven't seen it around the property before so I'm not sure w... (more)

Viewed from below grade, northbound 51Z breaks the silence in the quiet community of Elverton.

VLIX 2064 goes along for the ride on the back of the Secret City Excursion Train, on the return trip it will be in the lead since there is nowhere to turn the train when it gets to Blair.

A trio of GE's sit idle in the house track in downtown Harriman basking in the sun.

One of the SARM's vintage alcos rumbles across Poplar Creek under a clear fall sky.

Restored US Army unit sits out at the SARM shop facility on a clear fall day.

Like ghosts from the past, these searchlight signals (complete with their cantilevered signal mast) still keep watch over the double-to-single track junction on the south end of Tunnel 26 just to ... (more)

Lead motor 9520 pops into a spot of sun among a plethora of black shadows, actually, it was the only bright spot I could find as the sun was quickly dipping behind the Tennessee hills.

A southbound freight is all coupled back together and ready to depart after dropping a slew of cars and two locomotives in the storage track at South Waters, just north of the Emory Gap yard.

On a chilly fall morning a short, but slow, freight rumbles past the city limits of my hometown.