September 9, 2017 – POWER! There’s nothing like a living, breathing, moving steam locomotive and when you put two together it’s amazing sight to see and witness! Here we have Southern steam locomotives 630 and 4501 after exiting Missionary Ridge Tunnel on their way back to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum shops, at East Chattanooga, TN, after a full day of passenger runs during the museum’s recent 2017 Railfest.
September 15, 2017 – The crew of this fully loaded CSX Grain Express train wait patiently for a southbound signal on the number 2 track just before John Rivers Road Crossing at Casky Yard, Hopkinsville, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision.
September 9, 2017 – Southern steam locomotive 4501 rounds a curve, with it’s passenger train, as it heads west to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga, TN, from their East Chattanooga Shops, during 2017 Railfest. #jimstrainphotos
September 23, 2017 – BNSF 7145 and 4116 lead CSX hot intermodal Q028-23 as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision at Henderson, Ky. I got a heads up from fellow railfan Ricky Bivins about this train heading through Mortons Gap, Ky, which is about 8 miles from my home in Richland. By the time I finally got ahead of it to where I could setup and get this shot I had to travel about 45 miles north of Mortons Gap to Henderson in order to do so. Good thing it was I-69 all the way as it showed up shortly after I got there!
September 9, 2017 – Planes, Trains, and …. Southern steam locomotives 630 and 4501 sit at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga, TN as they prepare for the first run of the day at their 2017 Railfest, as a plane takes off over them to parts unknown, as early railfans work to get their “perfect shots” of the newly arrived locomotives.