The proud facade of the onetime Southern Terminal Station in downtown Chattanooga is now a hotel that could, to be honest, use a bit of a redo. I hope this grand old lady survives. The were was a ... (more)

Southern 4501 arrives at Grand Junction returning from another Missionary Ridge Local trip.

After a rebuild at Norfolk Southern's Juniata Shop in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and restoration into its original Southern Railway paint scheme at the Chattanooga locomotive shop, Southern SD40 #3170... (more)

A new addition to Norfolk Southern's "heritage fleet": Southern Railway SD40 #3170 was built in April of 1971 and served for Southern and Norfolk Southern until being retired in 2008. It was rece... (more)

This was on the first revenue run of the Southern 4501 after her extensive rebuild.

Ex-Southern Railway #2561 leads a rare former Southern reefer (recently acquired by the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum) back to K-25 after a run of cars to Blair to interchange with NS. Of not... (more)

Southern Rwy trains #154 and #83 meeting at High Point, NC in August 1972.

Southern 2-8-0 #630 and 2-8-2 #4501 simmers side by side in the sunset at Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's Soule Shops in Chattanooga, TN, the evening prior to TVRM's "Railfest". Pho... (more)

TVRM's former Southern Rwy 2-8-0 #630 leads a southbound Norfolk Southern/TVRM public excursion train across the massive bridge over the Kentucky River at High Bridge, KY on its round trip between... (more)

A Southern box car with a newly repaired door sits outside the shops near the Altoona station, seen in the distance.

If you're going to crash, might as well make it spectacular. Southern Railway's new aluminum "silver side" coal hoppers detailed atop a trestle near Frisco, Tenn. and the Big Hook was uprighting ... (more)

Southern Railway 1380 one of the only streamlined 4-6-2's on the Southern pauses at Atlanta Yard

Gotcha! You can tell who's the railfan in this shot as a Photo Charter organized by Clint Renegar with a Southern and Norfolk & Western GP30 duo passes a couple enjoying a beautiful Summer ... (more)

It's all-GP at Southern's Columbus yard in Spring 1975, but in a few years GE C-Cs will bump the dwindling number of geeps to support roles, and the turntable and 1922 coaling tower will disappear... (more)

In a significant milestone, driver #1 goes back under Southern Railway #630 while the locomotive continues its return to active service at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's Soule Shops in Eas... (more)