The southbound NS 175 (Elkhart,IN-Macon,GA) waste no time as it scoot through the town of Spring City, TN (MP 283.2 (CP) Spring City) on its way south for Chattanooga, TN on the CNO&TP 2nd Distric... (more)
135 has just emerged from the Swannanoa Tunnel as it crests the Blue Ridge at Ridgecrest. It's all downhill from here until they crew change in Asheville, 15 miles away.
The sun streams in through the same break in the ridges that the old Southern Railway uses to escape the Old Fort Loops and head down into downtown Old Fort
All stages of fall foliage development are represented here along Mill Creek as an early morning 162 drags its heels, fighting gravity on the descent into Old Fort.