Music Mondays and Train Tuesdays [combined this week] Thanks for making 2011 a record year for The Low-Tech Times. Looking back, my favorite acoustic music release for the year was the collaboration of Chris Thile and Michael Daves. And being an easterner, my top railfan event was Norfolk Southern’s return to steam at TVRM Railfest. [...]
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 [...]
Train Tuesdays 21st Century Steam: Norfolk Southern’s Steam Program This new video from Norfolk Southern explains their new steam program. The exciting news is that NS plans to bring steam to all major terminals throughout their system by the end of 2015. See Also: Official 21st Century Steam Website Full Coverage of TVRM Railfest / [...]
