I've never been able to really time a rail photography trip with a snowstorm, but after a blanketing of the stuff on the 18th and me being off work I was able to take this photo of an NS SD40-2 t... (more)
As the sun rises over the mountains burning off an early morning fog, a pair of switching crews work simultaneously in the CSX Cumberland yard with classic EMD leaders.
A bright red Corman SD40-2 blasts through the suburb of Powell,TN. As this was quickly snapped on my way to work, I am very glad this train was relatively short and did not cost me any time.
Oddballs shuffling coal.
A northbound NS stack train has added some accessories as it heads for Chattanooga. Yes I was shocked to see this as it came out from a tree tunnel where one had fallen on it a few hundred feet be... (more)
A southbound mixed freight arrives with the merchandise needed for all that great industry in the background. The old Clinchfield Station, now a bank, stands majestically on the skyline.
Another view of the specialty trucking company crew loading components preparing the car move. This is a unique former Canadian Pacific "horse car" once used by the RCMP to transport hor... (more)
Destination Canada? Hard to say. This is a unique former Canadian Pacific "horse car" once used by the RCMP to transport horses to their shows across Canada. It is one of three to the be... (more)
Three Locomotives of R.J. Corman prestige are parked on a siding in Powell, a suburb of Knoxville. The Locomotives are operating on Corman's Knoxville & Cumberland Gap line, that was formed in 202... (more)
Despite the Willoughby Interlocking being a crossover between the NS and CSX railroads, this NS GE Loco, is actually running on the CSX portion of the diamond. Also helping out is a red CPKC unit,... (more)
One source says this unit was Illinois Terminal 1200 but the hood shows this is 1210. It was owned by N&W after IT. Photo by Jim Satterwhite.
Challenge: Top this for a bad paint job. This was the yard switcher de jour I found on a business trip. Former C&O unit.
A 20-hour late 12T heads up the Lehigh Line at Catasauqua.
Nashville & Eastern's thrice weekly empty rock train from Nashville arrives at Carthage Jct and will diverge off the old Tennessee Central mainline onto the Carthage branch to load at the quarry.
With fall foliage at near peak, the South Branch Valley Petersburg freight flies by the unincorporated community of Vanderlip, WV.
