NS 57Q picks up the pace after a quick meet with a southbound intermodal at Boyce. Here, the train is crossing Tenbridge, which spans the Tennessee River.

Norfolk Southern SD45-2 number 1700 poses outside the paint shop at DeButts Yard in Chattanooga, Tennessee, wearing its new, "old" paint scheme. The first of a thirteen unit order, 1700... (more)

"Belles, and Snow birds" NS 335 (Macon,GA-Sheffield,AL) slowly roll pass NS 130 on its way west (south in NS terms) for Sheffield, but before this train with a bit of color at the lead could leave... (more)

After a steady down pour, you can see the foliage is starting to change color just a bit. A pair of NS SD40-2 leading two other motors dead in tow (DIT), and about 40 cars is waiting to meet CSX Q... (more)

With a colorful motor consist at the lead NS 367 (Chattanooga,TN-Birmingham,AL) highball down the double track main with a pair of CEFX Blue blue, and a CP SD60 online, and in charge of the long m... (more)

During the late months of October as the fall colors was really starting to show, we see empty coal bucket NS 733 (Juliette,GA-Memphis,TN/BNSF) is slowing down before going over the Hickory Valley... (more)

4501 night photo session

4501 has a very nice look in this profile shot.

Old v/s New: Hartford & Slocomb #913 sits on static display while NS #6920 basks in the morning sunlight in the distance at TVRM the morning before railfest.

After everyone was gone, we stayed back to flash the 6920 and 911 at TVRM. Here they sit under calm and peaceful skies.

After riding the 4501, we stopped to take some pictures at Ten Bridge with a few friends. Here we see the Southern taking a coal train across Tenn Bridge going North on the CNO&TP.

Slowly crossing over the Tennessee River in Chattanooga (M.P. 331.3 CP-Tenbridge) is the coil train NS 397 with direction by the Chattanooga Terminal Dispatcher (CT) out of Knoxville to proceed do... (more)

Southern 4501 on the return trip from Cleveland, TN back to Chattanooga. This was the second mainline excursion during the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's annual Railfest.

A day after the 14th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks, two of Norfolk Southern's specially painted SD60Es honoring first responders and veterans pose together again for Ra... (more)

Empty coal train 75W hurries over Tenbridge in Chattanooga with the Southern Railway heritage engine doing the honors on the old Southern Railway Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific (CNO&TP... (more)