A Southern Railway double header featuring 2-8-0 #630 and 2-8-2 #4501 blasts through the exit of the 986-foot long Missionary Ridge Tunnel. The tunnel was built in 1858 by the East Tennessee and ... (more)

Southern Locomotives #4501 and #630 do some afternoon switching in preparation for the night photo shoot during the Lerro Productions charter at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.

Freight rules the night. The passenger platform at East Chattanooga Depot is deserted this night, with the last of the day's commuter trains having departed hours ago. Despite the apparen... (more)

Westbound Southern Freight. Shortly after leaving the Grand Junction Yard, a westbound Southern Freight slowly ambles across the South Chickamauga Creek Bridge toward downtown Chattanooga, ... (more)

Got smoke? The storied Southern Mikado #4501 bursts out of the west portal of the 19th century Missionary Ridge Tunnel in East Chattanooga, TN on a smokey run-by for photographers, during a... (more)

Southern Locomotives #4501 and #630 do some afternoon switching in preparation for the night photo shoot during the Lerro Productions charter at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.

The engineer of the 117-year-old Mikado Class 2-8-2 #4501 gives the locomotive more throttle as it pulls a mixed freight consist into Grand Junction in Chattanooga. The train is pulling a mixed fr... (more)

A late night double headed freight, led by Southern's 2-8-2 No. 4501630 trailed by 2-8-0 No. 630, heads west over the singled steel girder trestle over the South Chickamauga Creek. Captured duri... (more)

Southern Railway's 2-8-2 No. 4501 blasts out of the western portal of the 1858 built, 986-foot long Missionary Ridge Tunnel along the west end of the TVRM's main line. This was part of a two day ... (more)

Reporting for work. A pair of Southern Railway engine shop employees prepare to start the second shift near the turntable in the East Chattanooga Yard. Locomotive service jobs were among t... (more)

Bridges over South Chickamauga. A Southern Railway Freight rumbles across the steel girder bridge over South Chickamauga Creek, headed Compass East toward the Grand Junction Yard, roughly a... (more)

A mighty freight hog. The Fireman on Southern Railway Consolidation #630 leans out of his cab, watching for the Trainman's next signal to move, as his locomotive performs switching operatio... (more)

Southern Mikado #4501 (built by Baldwin in 1911) and Consolidation #630 (built by ALCO in 1904), leading a mixed freight train, on the bridge over the South Chickamauga Creek during the Blue Hour.... (more)

Snow flurries fall as Southern steam locomotives #630 and #4501 doublehead on some photo runbys for the first day of the Lerro Productions charter at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.

After getting further direction to run to Pratt for a crew change, NS 61S (Mingo Jct,OH-New Orleans,LA) eases down grade, and heading to the crew change point to Pratt on the NS Chattanooga Termin... (more)