SR 154 moves the afternoon excursion upgrade into Marbledale, the outbound terminus of the Rambler.

SR 154 leads a private charter outbound from Knoxville.

SR 154 leads the morning's excursion outbound from Knoxville.

The crew of 46G has begun to tie down their train after bringing it down from Burnside, KY. A new crew will be called several hours later to take it the rest of the way to the Staley plant in Loud... (more)

Far from home, this gal heads toward Atlanta after making a brief stop in Knoxville.

This faded warbonnet is the lead 40G, currently tied down in the early morning awaiting the call from Staley in Loudon, TN. It wouldn't be until mid-afternoon before the call came.

Marker-light equipped Southern EMD SW-7 switcher 6859 was assigned the passenger station at Knoxville, Tenn. when this image was snapped on June 28, 1957. The church tower clock says 2:28; the h... (more)

The smallest standard gauge 4-6-2 ever built, by Baldwin in 1911, was for the Little River RR in Townsend, Tenn. It served the Smoky Mountain RR for a number of years, and was restored in 1975 to... (more)

Five-year old Southern GP7 2196 has returned to Knoxville, Tenn. yard after servicing its customers on June 28, 1957. What is right of the nose-mounted bell — a siren?

An overnight snowfall of 6+ inches in East Tennessee has things moving just a bit slower than normal as NS freight train 114 departs Sevier Yard as a yard job shoves cars toward the hump on an adj... (more)

CSX freight Q539 rolls through Amherst as it heads south to Etowah and eventually Atlanta behind CSX C40-8s 7613 and 7578. In the modern world of wide nose GE locomotives, seeing two standard cab ... (more)

Seen from the right of way of the Knoxville & Holston River RR, the NS local heads for "aluminum city", AKA Alcoa, TN.

Eastbound NS stack train 202 slowly passes through downtown Knoxville as the Knoxville Fire Department works to extinguish an overnight fire at the abandoned McClung Warehouse to the left of the t... (more)

With small amounts of snow still on the ground on this frigid day, the West Local heads directly into the golden glow of the late afternoon sun on it’s way to Loudon, TN with an unusually long t... (more)

Norfolk Southern's 201 stack train makes a rare daylight appearance in Knoxville following the Christmas holiday. It has just crossed the CSX at the diamond at Willoughby and is proceeding west to... (more)