As the sun sets behind the Cumberland Mountains, NS T10 rolls down a 1.5% grade and across Lonesome Valley on its journey to Middlesboro. This ex-Southern Railway branch line services a handful of... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Middlesboro Turn rolls up the 1.5% grade into Tazewell.

N&W 611 climbs towards the summit of Blue Ridge Grade.

The northbound deadhead run of the CSX Kentucky Derby train rolls across Lake City on its journey north on the CSX KD Sub.

Q540 rolls over the high bridge over Cove Creek as it climbs Lake City Hill.

Southern Appalachia Railway Museum's recently lettered ex-SCL SD45 #2024 is lit up by a handful of photographers on a warm spring evening.

An eastbound coal train rolls through the small community of Del Rio, TN along the French Broad River Valley.

As the sun drops behind the Blue Ridge Mountains, NS 744 creeps down the intense grades of the Southern Loops.

T12 rolls downgrade off of Copper Ridge on its return to Sevier Yard with the last ex-Southern Railway high hood SD40-2 I would ever shoot leading the way.

C740 rolls over the Little River on its way back to Knoxville with just one boxcar in tow. Spring is in full swing in east Tennessee, as evidenced by the beautiful blooms along the river.

Engineer Charlie Poling brings the SD45 up into the NS interchange at Blair at dusk.

SARM's beautiful SCL SD45 #2024 leads a Heritage Railroad freight train to the NS interchange at Blair.

A southbound CSX loaded coal train rolls across Ivydale on a bitterly cold winter morning. The community of Ivydale used to be served by both the L&N and the Southern, which had a branch that ran ... (more)

T35 roars up the 1.2% grade out of Lake City, racing against the sunset before it enters the shadows of the Cumberland Mountains. This line runs to Jellico, TN, and is of Southern Railway heritage... (more)

T35 works the small yard in Lake City in a rare daylight move. A cut of empty woodchip hoppers for Royal Blue will be picked up before proceeding further north into the Cumberland Mountains.