Music Mondays and Train Tuesdays [combined this week] Good music and trains go together. First, here’s a good cover of Hurt by Johnny Cash. It’s not a train song, but the music video for Hurt shows Johnny Cash riding in the cab of Southern 4501. Railroad songs by Johnny Cash include: Folsom Prison Blues I [...]
Train Tuesdays Previously reported luxury rail service slated to start next summer between DC and WV has been delayed due to federal regulations on the passenger cars. Evan Brandt of The Mercury reports: …The problem, Rowland said, is rules issued by the Federal Railroad Administration that require that the equipment and furnishings in the cars [...]
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 [...]