Still serving the south, Southern Railway GP30 2601 drags a photo freight consist near the south end of the yard for National Train Day weekend at the North Carolina Transportation Museum.

Over the South Chickamauga. One of the day's two steam-lead passenger trains crosses the South Chickamauga River on its way back to the depot at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.

Rolling southward down the center of Hillsboro Street with white flags flying are Southern Railway GP38AC 2851 and Norfolk Southern GP38-2 5101, possibly NS train P41, pulling a southbound train o... (more)

Idling in the late afternoon sun, a common unit for years.

Southern E8 #6900 slumbers at the North Carolina Transportation Museum. The locomotive is fully operational but is not part of regular service at this time. Regardless, it is shown spending the ni... (more)

Rare to find a shot on an as-built SOU -2. Note the “slick” roofline. SOU was the only major railroad and perhaps the only railroad to buy the -2s with oil bath air filters. After a very fe... (more)

Well into NS days but looking good this southbound rattles thru town. As i recall this was the first time we encountered a certain Mr. Wrinn, then a local reporter.

Somewhat later GP38-2 having been built with paper air filters after the wait-and-see Southern got onboard with that innovation.

Built with oil bath air filters in the mid-70s, by this date SOU had converted to paper filters as reflected by the modification.

An early phase of a classic, obviously residing at the home of the Litterati.

This unit is on the track between the approach to the K&IT bridge and the old PRR (in background) bridge. The track apparently used to go all along the river but was truncated years ago and at th... (more)

It has been a long night of delivering families to the North Pole as the Engineer climbs down from the cab of the Polar Express at the North Carolina Transportation Museum. The amount of teamwork ... (more)