Track maintenance equipment sits on the team track while power for the local rests on the cross town lead. In background containers in well cars of 22A are on the main.
As the sun rises on Thanksgiving morning, the NS 37Q eases by the beautifully restored Bristol train station ready to roll west with an EMD SD90MAC leading the way.
Departing for Knoxville at twilight time.
Contemporaries meet at twilight time. Westbound intermodal awaits crew change as does the eastbound intermodal (NS 202) in the glow after sunset. In background GP38-2 power for the local waits for... (more)
Intermodal on the main, Manifest on the siding. First to depart? 15T on the siding.
Lead unit looking a little less than pristine on the westbound.
Tennessee side crew will soon be climbing aboard and will depart shortly for Knoxville. Meanwhile NS V19 idles on the siding.
Westbound departing for Knoxville past two caboose used by the Bristol locals.
A historic scene that has been repeated thousands of times over the last century, a Southern Painted locomotive crosses State Street and into Virginia from Tennessee. Although it's not the Southe... (more)
The Southern heritage unit sits in the Bristol yard as the crew is called on duty for 6:10 pm. Once the crew arrives, the 8099 will hold until the eastbound 202 arrives and clears the main.
Rounding the bend by the Bristol Concrete Plant, the Southern heritage unit leads train 22A west into the Bristol yard.
On a humid summer night, the 15T sits idle beside the Bristol Depot before getting clearance to proceed west.
The 3170 idles through the night to maintain air on the train while the 4501 rests on the south end of the yard before the morning departure of the Radford Rambler.
Southern Mikado 4501 puts on great show as it ducks under the Mary Street Bridge in Bristol, Virginia.
Rain has passed but sun has yet to make an appearance as the first of three excursions from Bristol gets underway in a fine show of smoke and steam.