Two Canadian visitors team up with a regular on northbound manifest Q542. The train is crossing the Little River, which flows out of the Smokey Mountains through Townsend, Wallend, and Maryville, TN on its way to the Tennessee River, which it will join only a mile or so from this point. Q542 regularly departs Waycross, GA for Cincinnati, OH via Manchester, Atlanta, Etowah, Knoxville, and Corbin.