The West Local passes the Southern Railway passenger station at Knoxville, TN.

NS 135 splits the signals at Boyd. Fort Loudon Lake is in the background.

NS 703 pulls along North shore of Fort Loudon lake

UP 2345 eases up to the East end of Boyd siding after meeting NS 135

NS 162 continues after their meet at Boyd

NS 9485 eases into the siding at Boyd to wait for NS 162 & NS 703 to pass.

UP 4460 is easing to a stop on the main at Boyd to wait for a Westbound coal train.

Kentucky Coal headed for Georgia Power's Wansley Plant.

The local rumbles past the fishing pier headed for Loudon.

The two SD40-2s are working hard to get Q142 up to track speed out of Amherst. Rather ironic that the first train I see after my internship with BNSF in Seattle has a white face BN in the lead!

CSX 7693 crosses Beaver Creek atCoward Mill RD in Knox County. Snow in background is remnents of the Blizzard of 1993 that struck the Eastern US in 1993

NW 1218 Heading East leaving the Dowtown Yards in Knoxville, TN. Shot from Gay St. viaduct. I shot this as part of a B&W photography assignment for my high school Graphic Arts class.