NS, UP, BNSF & F units in Chattanooga

[E.M. Bell]

Now that I have processed all of the "important" stuff (you know..steam!) from our trip to the TVRM railfest in Chattanooga last month, I have been working on the stragglers. Besides shooting all of the steam and passenger trains over that weekend, we caught a ton of the normal, everyday NS moves in and around Chatt.

Here are a few of those, and the entire set (including some groovy close up details and roster shots) can be found at this link. 32 new images..   http://www.pbase.com/kd4jsl/cs3rd11eb

NS 282 crosses the TN river as a couple of fisherman go to work. 09/01/11



NS 955 came into Debutts yard, dropped off the one passenger car they brought with them, and quickly made a reverse move to TVRM. They are seen here about to back under the Wilder Street bridge at Coffee's Cliff



A NS intermodal (201 I think) paces a CSX train at CP East End, near downtown Chattanooga



Brand new NS 8088 on display at TVRM



A set of UP power leads a NS pig train at Coffee's cliff



BNSF power on a empty NS coal train at CP East End.

[csx6900]

Awesome shots, Emit!  Is it just me or was CSX really slow around Labor Day weekend?  NS seemed plenty busy, but I caught very few CSX trains on the whole trip.  I only caught one the whole 3 or 4 hours I was at Coffey's Cliff on Sunday morning.

-Evan

[E.M. Bell]

I dont reckon I really paid much attention to CSX while we where down there (not that I would normally turn my head to see a CSX train anyway).. I have pics of Two with the 630 on different days...So they must have ran Two

The one I do remember was on Friday afternoon at CT tower..2 big GE's and maybe a dozen cars..guess that is a long train for them eh??