December 20, 2019 – The RJ Corman Cumberland City Turn is reflected in a small pond as it crosses over Dunlop Road as it continues its move north on the Memphis Line after making a pickup at Letica Plastics in Clarksville, Tennessee. A big shout out to fellow railfan Cooper Smith for showing me this line today between Guthrie, Ky and Cumberland City, TN!
November 30, 2019 – Another stormy weather day with buckets of rain as CSX Q513 approaches the north end signals at Cedar Hill, Tennessee as it makes its way south on the Henderson Subdivision.
November 26, 2019 – CSX Q028 exits the CR Drawbridge from downtown Nashville, Tennessee as it makes it’s way north on the Nashville Terminal Subdivision where it will head to Chicago, Illinois via the Henderson Subdivision.
November 4, 2019 – CSX hot intermodal Q029 passes under Broadway Avenue as it approaches Kayne Avenue on its way south on the Nashville Terminal Subdivision, at Nashville, TN with CSXT 503 leading the way.
November 4, 2019 – CSX hot intermodal Q029 passes through Kayne Avenue as it heads south on the Nashville Terminal Subdivision, at Nashville, TN with CSXT 503 leading the way.
November 4, 2019 – CSX Q501 passes through the S curve after exiting Bakers Tunnel back around the curve as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision at Goodlettsville, TN.
November 4, 2019 – CSX loaded grain train G212 comes off the Nashville Terminal Subdivision onto the N&NA North Subdivision at CP Brentwood as it head south from Brentwood, Tennessee. The trackage to the left is the Nashville Subdivision.
September 21, 2019 – The John A. Chambliss “TAG 80” (Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railroad) leads, with the Southern 4501 all dressed up as L&N 1593, as it passes the old Peerless Woolen Mills at Chattanooga, Tennessee as it heads north on the Chattanooga & Chickamauga Railroad during the 2019 L&N Convention.
September 21, 2019 – The John A. Chambliss “TAG 80” sits next to L&N 1593 (Southern 4501) during a photo charter to the depot in Chickamauga, Georgia. Southern 4501, was all dressed up as L&N 1593, during the L&N Historical Society weekend at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) at Chattanooga, TN.
September 21, 2019 – The John A. Chambliss “TAG 80” sits next to L&N 1593 (Southern 4501) during a photo charter to the depot in Chickamauga, Georgia. Southern 4501, was all dressed up as L&N 1593, during the L&N Historical Society weekend at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) at Chattanooga, TN.
September 22, 2019 – Norfolk Southern 1206 leads a early morning mixed freight across the Tenbridge, over the Tennessee River, as it heads south on the CNO&TP Third District at Chattanooga, Tennessee.
September 22, 2019 – Norfolk Southern 1206 heads south into DeButts Yard with it’s mixed freight at Chattanooga, Tennessee as a northbound freight departs.
September 22, 2019 – BNSF 9163 acts as the DPU as it brings up the rear headed north from NS DeButts Yard at Chattanooga, Tennessee with a loaded coal train on the CNO&TP Third District.
September 21, 2019 – The John A. Chambliss “TAG 80” passes through and industrial section of Chattanooga, Tennessee, as it returns from a photo charter run to Chickamauga, Georgian, with Southern 4501, all dressed up as L&N 1593 trailing, during the L&N Historical Society weekend at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM). Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.
According to the TVRM Website it was built for the Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railway in 1968, TAG 80 was the last and most powerful engine purchased by that railroad. The engine was named “The John A. Chambliss” in honor of the railroad’s vice president, and dedicated on his 80th birthday.
The 80 was later sold to the Southern Railway, and later became the property of Norfolk Southern, who sold it at auction to the Chambliss family in 2001, who then donated the locomotive to TVRM. The locomotive was restored mechanically, electrically and cosmetically between 2015 and 2016, returning to service in March 2017. It is a model GP38, developing 2,000 horsepower.
September 20, 2019 – Southern 4501, all dressed up as L&N 1593, sits on the turntable at the shops in East Chattanooga, during the Annual L&N Convention night shoot, at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
September 22, 2019 – CSX Q581 heads southbound at Sherwood, Tennessee, on the Chattanooga Subdivision, with CSXT #18 leading the way.
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 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 22, 2019 – CSX W032-17, with CSXT 4062 a SD40-3 leading, meets a northbound Q581 at Sherwood, Tennessee, as it heads north on the Chattanooga Subdivision with a load of MOW equipment.
September 21, 2019 – Somewhere on the ground behind remotely controlled engine NS 6181 stands a remote operator that is working on building a train as one of the towers at NS DeButts Yard and the train is bathed in the late evening light at Chattanooga, Tennessee.