Due to Southern 630 still undergoing mechanical work at Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, Norfolk Southern provided the Southern Railway heritage locomotive to power the TVRM/NS Chattanooga - Onei... (more)

On a beautiful New Year’s Eve morning, NS 9523 has train 275 gliding through Oakdale with a load of brand new automobiles.

New Year's Eve on the Rathole. Southbound manifest 117 passes through Oakdale on Track One with 9762 in command.

NS 197 creeps through Oakdale approaching Tunnel 25, having just passed two waiting northbounds.

A fresh crew has boarded southbound 387 as it departs Oakdale beginning its trip over the third district of the CNO&TP for Chattanooga.

NS 142 heads north through Oakdale. This could very well be the last snowfall for these searchlights as their replacements were just to my right across the tracks.

The "hotshot" heads south through a snow covered, and empty, Oakdale.

Time was that CNO&TP train 151 (earlier, train 51)--the "Sparkplug"--was the hottest thing on the railroad. It rolled out of Cincinnati every morning behind four SD24s, with up to 130 loaded box c... (more)

NS #7001 one of three GP40X's that NS has leads a South Bound out of Tunnel 26 MP255.5

A southbound freight with 5 trailing exBNSF motors to become eventual rebuild fodder for NS's rebuild program.

EMD/CAT's brand new SD70ACe #1201 leads NS high & wide train 055 southbound under the signal bridge at Tunnel 25 in Oakdale, TN on a mild October evening. The 1201 had been debuted at the Mine Exp... (more)

A northbound passes under the old 'searchlight' signals at the south end of Oakdale yard. The signals are being replaced rapidly along the Central Division, in fact the new signals were just out ... (more)

Fall colors on the rathole.

A northbound NS freight passes under the old Southern Railway signal bridge at Oakdale. This particular signal bridge was made from the frame of a boxcar. Thanks to Chris Starnes for the lighti... (more)

Southbound piggyback train departing Oakdale behind three Southern EMDs, November 1985.