As part of Norfolk Southern's 21st Century Steam Program, TVRM's Southern Consolidation leads the first steam excursion on the Buchanan Branch in 55 years, as it crosses the bridge into Weller Yar... (more)
Southern locomotive 630 passes over a small creek as it works back to Grundy, VA.
SOU 4501 takes coal while stopped in front of the old Union Station. The train is enroute to the 1970 NRHS Convention in Charleston. Today this building is a California Dreaming restaurant, situ... (more)
Doubleheaded with 4501, the Southern 722 powers the southbound leg of the Carolina Special over the SCL approaching Green Pond. The train will turn at Savannah and return to Charleston, site of t... (more)
The 21st Century Steam Special has just rounded Lookout Mountain after leaving Chattanooga and is now running, 630's throttle wide open, at Wauhatchie Pike. In about a half mile, the train will du... (more)
NS 21st Century Steam Special from Chattanooga, TN south to Attalla, AL on Saturday, Nov.9, 2013. Photo taken near Rising Fawn, GA
Southern #630 leads the day's excursion south, passing the old store in Rock Spring.
Southern 630 flies through Pine Hill, running solo on this September morning.
Southern 4501 rolls into Dayton, TN with an excursion on a gorgeous fall day. Dayton is famous as the location of the Scopes trial in 1925 about the teaching of evolution. The railroad is Souther... (more)
Still the best locomotive ever run by NS steam program (IMHO). Here the train is westbound entering the siding for a meet. Why yes, I am on the lead locomotive of the train they are meeting, by ... (more)
Southern 630 going through the town of Swannanoa
Southern 630 climbs the hill at Dendron.
Arriving at the historic, and distinctively painted, depot with first excursion of the day.
The Southern 630 prepares to take it's train into the yard for the night, after unloading it's passengers off the Lynchburg excursion in downtown Roanoke. NS's East End shops can be seen in the b... (more)
On a beautiful, brisk winter morning, SOU 630 brings the 21st Century Steam excursion bound for Radford past the signals at Abingdon.