Southern Dinner Train. This nicely-maintained GP38 rests on a Saturday afternoon before pulling the Valentine's Dinner Train that evening. My wife and I would ride behind this train and en... (more)
After waiting at Ooltewah for 734 to get out of the way, NS 201 sprints past Hickory Valley Road for the crew change at Pratt, where the next crew will take it on the next leg of it's journey for ... (more)
NS 163 is parked next to a 3 train derailment @ Chattanooga Tn
Southern's first proper GP38-2 idles in the Grand Junction yard awaiting the evening departure of the Valentine's Dinner on the Diner.
A spring switch guards the wye at Grand Junction as TVRM 606 prepares to depart with a 5-car consist of the Missionary Ridge Local.
After passing one of the shortest siding holdout Boyce on the Western & Atlantic Sub, CSX K442-26 (Lawrenceville,GA-Chicago,IL/CP) is now slowing down as the unit train is on the final few miles o... (more)
6773 in fresh paint
On a dreary wet, and foggy afternoon train NÂș 100 eases the five car consist down Missionary Ridge grade on a limited weekday schedule of the Missionary Ridge Local. As always I'm a sucker for s... (more)
Class ES44AC leads Oakwood, MI to Chattanooga, TN train 189 through NS Tenbridge, so named for the Tennessee River below. Construction of the lock into Lake Chickamauga is evidenced by the multip... (more)
Southern 3170 and 2594 on display at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.
Southern 4501 departs Grand Junction with TVRM 100, the "Missionary Ridge Local." Off to the side is SOU 5000 waiting for its call to the dinner train later that evening.
Tennessee Valley Railroad Grand Jct campus.
A variety of power at the NW DeButts yard in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Engineer A Walker waves to the camera as he brings his train across the Chickamauga Creek bridge at TVRM , Chattanooga Tn
GP40-2 # 3002 switching at the shop