"You would have thought they was running at about 40mph!" On this Hot humid July morning, TVRM train #300 was slowly making its way down the Chattanooga Belt Line heading for 23rd St. wh... (more)

WORTH NO SLEEP (copyright Tj M. Murrah)

Norfolk Southern's "Southern" SD40 number 3170 poses with Southern GP30 number 2594 at Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's Grand Junction wye in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Photo by Casey... (more)

While N&W 611 was the star of the day, there was plenty of other stuff to shoot around the NCTM away from the photo crowd. Here Southern 2601 pushes one of the days public runs north through the y... (more)

Not often can you see the Southern "Tuxedo" and "Crescent" paint schemes on the same train. The 6900 was originally the sole power for the museum runs this day but after some p... (more)

This would be my ride around the museum complex taking a spin on the turn table.

The recently rebuilt ex-Southern SD40 No. 3170 stands at the Barber Junction depot at Spencer, NC during the night photo shoot.

For the first time in almost 21 years, N&W J Class Locomotive 611 works southbound on museum property and beside of Norfolk Southern's "Southern" 3170.

Reunion of Man and Machine. I had the pleasure of meeting this gentleman today at Spencer. He was the engineer assigned to 3170 to assist N&W 611 up Saluda Grade in 1992. He retired from NS after ... (more)

Southern 4501 gets loose on the mainline for the first time in 21 years! Here we find her in the wind big time at Hickory Valley Road as she begins a short turn out to Cleveland, TN and back.

Photographer- unknown- from the 35 mm original Kodachrome slide. August 28 and 29, 1976 saw former 4449 GS-4 head up an excursion from Atlanta, GA to Alexandria, VA in order to get the big GS-... (more)

Steam makes an appearance on the CNO&TP in KY for the first time in over 20 years as SOU 630 storms south on the First District during May 2014. I'll consider myself extremely lucky on this one co... (more)

A extremely brief moment of sun pops through on a very cloudy day, lighting up the nose (yep they ran long hood forward) of a Southern GP30 on display at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Musuem.

A lone SD9 flying green flags heads west with a mainline local. This is an unusual shot in that, by 1972, Southern's six SD9s and lone SD7 (all inherited from C of G) were generally in captive ser... (more)

Southern painted U23B #3910 leading a train at Asheville, NC in the summer of 1985