September 21, 2019 – The conductor stands ready to throw the switch after Southern Railway 630 departs from East Chattanooga, Tennessee on one of its several runs for the day. Southern 630 is a 2-8-0 Consolidation type steam locomotive built in February 1904 by the Richmond Works of the American Locomotive Company for the Southern Railway as a member of the KS-1 Consolidation class. Today, it operates at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
September 22, 2019 – CSX W032-17, with CSXT 4062 a SD40-3 leading, heads north at Sherwood, Tennessee on the Chattanooga Subdivision with a load of MOW equipment.
September 8, 2019 – CTA Blue Line train 105 to Forest Park passes a crossover as it approaches the Damen Station as it heads toward downtown Chicago, Illinois.
October 2, 2019 – This afternoon I caught this rainbow power move as it took the siding at the north end of the siding at Dawson Springs, Ky, on the Paducah and Louisville Railway. The power is, PAL 4518, CITIRAIL 1204, BNSF 9651 and 5653. The BNSF power came north earlier this morning and dropped off a string of empty coal cars, before the power being moved back to Paducah, Ky. Not sure of the reason for the strange move however.
September 4, 2019 – The last glow of the day starts to fade from the sky a crews get things ready for a night photo shoot in Duluth, Minnesota at a recent photo charter at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum on the North Shore Scenic Railroad.
Locomotives from left, Minnesota Steel #7 a 0-4-0ST “Tank Engine” built by Porter in 1915; Soo Line #2719, Duluth, Missabe a Class H-23, 4-6-2 “Pacific” built by ALCO in 1923; Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway #332 a 2-8-0 consolidation class built by Pittsburg Works in 1906 and Duluth & Northern Minnesota #14 a 2-8-2 “Mikado” built by Baldwin in 1913.
September 21, 2019 – Southern 4501, all dressed up as L&N 1593, heads into a curve at Chattanooga, Tennessee as it heads south to Chickamauga, GA, during the 2019 L&N Convention.
September 28, 2019 – CSXT 3201 leads Q503-27 as it crests the hill at the north end of Crofton Siding as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision at Crofton, Ky in the early morning light.