Lengthening shadows creep across the valley floor as NS train 170 heads toward Chattanooga behind a Warbonnet and a Dash 9.

The former TFM 1614, recently relettered and renumbered into the KCS system, leads 367 past a barn in the countryside as it approaches Fort Payne.

179 waits at Whitney to meet 170 and 16T before continuing to Birmingham. I doubt the crew planned to park the lead unit in a perfect patch of sunlight but I'm glad they did.

Minutes before sunset, a Santa Fe Warbonnet leads a northbound into Collinsville on the old Alabama Great Southern.

Being led by UP power, over CSX rails, NS train 201 passes a small vegetable garden in Bridgeport. To see how this scene has changed in 35 years, see TL Scott's photo 209036.

An empty Scherer train passes the old store in Lim Rock as it comes through the interesting three-way grade crossing at Jackson County Road 119.

NS 389 returns to home rails as it comes through the junction at Stevenson. The CSX Chattanooga Subdivision, over which NS trains have trackage rights eastward from here, can be seen curving off t... (more)

An SD70MAC leads a train of brand new GLIX hoppers through downtown Stevenson.

A Santa Fe snoot nose on a Saturday afternoon? Why yes, I believe a roster shot will be necessary. This unit was fourth in the consist but unobstructed views of its front end were possible while Q... (more)

It may be February but signs of spring are already popping up in north Alabama as the 2655 is panned across a field of purple phlox. My first successful pan shot!

A Powder River coal train heads east, bound for Georgia Power's Plant Scherer. On any given day along the Memphis District, one is likely to see more of these BNSF coal trains than anything else.

Running along Highway 156 on the Lake Nickajack causeway, a northbound heads toward Nashville on the former NC&StL. The state borders of Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia all come together in this s... (more)

A local comes down the "river branch" with a pair of high hoods while new riverfront construction looms to the right of the train. Also in the background is the Captain William J. Hudson "Steamboa... (more)