With whistle blowing and bell ringing, 630 puts on a show coming by the depot in downtown Lafayette. The train order signal is less than authentic but still a nice touch.

21st Century Steam! SOU 630 rolls into the spot light in the little town of Niota, while quite a crowd has packed the town for NS 951's arrivial,as it heads South towards Chattanooga from K... (more)

TVRM's 630 makes its presence known in the town of Chickamauga.

One of many steam trips that occurred during the 1970 NRHS convention was this Charleston-Savanna roundtrip excursion, seen here southbound on ACL rails. On this day Consolodation #722 led Mikado... (more)

A Southern steam special on the N&W crosses the James River enroute to Shenandoah. More Southern 4501 shots are seen from that steamy September 1970 at ... (more)

Southern 722 and 750 lead a doubleheaded excursion over a trestle at Hurt, VA in 1971. This particular excursion ran from Roanoke to Hurt on the old VGN, Hurt to Lynchburg on the Southern, and Lyn... (more)

The Dogwood Arts Festival Special ran from Chattanooga to Knoxville, a distance of approximately 111 miles each way. The power was Southern Ms Class 2-8-2 4501. Southern 4501 was built in 1911 by ... (more)

The April 20, 1985 Dogwood Arts Festival Special ran from Chattanooga to Knoxville, a distance of approximately 111 miles each way. The power was Southern Ms Class 2-8-2 4501. Southern 4501 was bu... (more)

The April 20, 1985 Dogwood Arts Festival Special ran from Chattanooga to Knoxville, a distance of approximately 111 miles each way. The power was Southern Ms Class 2-8-2 4501. Southern 4501 was bu... (more)

Southern 4501 gallops thru the Georgia woods as it leads a TVRM excursion south for Trion.

Shortly after leaving Chattanooga, Southern 4501 is in the Tennessee countryside on a beautiful spring day. The train is the Dogwood Arts Festival Special, and the destination is Knoxville. The tr... (more)

Note even sure if this was 1981 so let's say circa. I do remember our amazement that this was fantrip and we couldn't keep up. Man, that thing could run! It was a trip from Charlotte to Columbia... (more)

Former C&O 2-8-4 No. 2716 pulls a northbound Southern Railway excursion train across the James River Bridge on Independence Day 1982.

Southern Railway 2-8-0 No. 722 is east on Burkeville on its excursion run to Keysville from Richmond.

Texas & Pacific 2-10-4 No. 610 nears Charlottesville with a Southern Railway train excursion from Washington, D.C.