Music Mondays and Train Tuesdays [combined this week] Norfolk Southern’s older locomotives are setup to run in both directions, so you occasionally might see a locomotive with the long hood end facing forward, despite lower visibility for the crew. This photo of an NS freight train dates back to 1988-89. The freight train picture brings [...]
Train Tuesdays As reported last week, this past weekend was an exciting one for steam fans in Tennessee. After some private events associated with the Lexington Group in Transportation History, there was a one-way mainline excursion back to Chattanooga from Knoxville. I understand there was a hot bearing issue on today’s trip, but overall the [...]
Train Tuesdays After the inaugural 21st Century Steam weekend with short steam excursions on the mainline in Chattanooga, Norfolk Southern is operating a Knoxville to Chattanooga steam excursion: The excursion on November 14 is a steam locomotive-powered trip over Norfolk Southern’s Central Division mainline from Knoxville to Chattanooga, with charter bus service returning passengers to [...]
Train Tuesdays Quote of the Week It’s a good thing to let another generation know what a steam locomotive is – W. Graham Claytor Jr, president Southern Railway Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum 50th Anniversary Video See Also: TVRM Railfest / NS Steam Report Southern 630 Train Ride on the NS Mainline Book Review: Steam’s Camelot [...]
When it comes to low-tech, Liberty Farm in Bentonville, Virginia really walks the walk: We farm the old fashioned way like our grandparents and great grandparents did before us. We work the land with a team of Belgian draft horses, rather than tractors. In the spring they plow and disc new fields for grazing and [...]