Jacksonville bound hotshot Q143 crests the steep Raccoon Mountain grade at Whiteside with ease and now begins to throttle it's short 2,300ft. train back as it starts down grade into the crew chang... (more)
One of the best places on the this 10 mile section of the Chattanooga Sub on Raccoon Mountain where you can get a train at a sweeping curve is at Aetna Hollow at Whiteside, TN (MP J-137.6 Whitesid... (more)
Q143 crawls past the old civil war tunnel on the new bipass. After plans were introduced to double track this portion of the Chattanooga Sub, the old tunnel was bipassed in order to fit the second... (more)
"Oh boy we have a screamer" Q143 climbs up the Raccoon Mountain S-curve around Whiteside, TN with its 5,000 foot intermodal train sqealing around the curves.
K492 leads out of the Tennessee Valley with a rebuilt AC6000CW in the lead. While chasing this train, this was the only time we were able to get it in daylight due a cloud deck rolling in.