Well, we made it to Nashville....but no, we didn't make a record!

Our main objective here was to take an excursion train trip on the

Tennessee Central Railway

This trip went from Nashville to Monterey, TN. It has been 50 years since

a passenger train had rolled into Monterey. At Monterey they were having a Fall Festival and

a Civil War Reinactment battle. It was a all day trip through some beautiful country. Many of

the pictures we took were from the train. Well, as you might imagine, a train is never free of

rocking and jerking...so many photos were a tad blury.

 

Early Morning Shots of Our Train's Cars and Motive Power

Illinois Central Extended Vision Caboose # 9380

Power for this trip was a EMD F40 (Amtrak), 2 F7B Units #'s 715 & 719 and EMD E8 Unit # 6902

While we would have enjoyed getting to photograph the locomotives in a better condition and setting,

it was not possible on this trip.

We will start with the power car #1354 and moving to the back of the consist

Post Office Car # 514 which is was converted to an additional power car

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baggage Car # 1266 now their Commisary Car

 

Inside our car # 4739

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watertown, Tennessee siding

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barn along the way

 

 

 

 

 

Our car about to reach the bridge

Well, do you need a good car? This lot seems to have some nice rides availble!

TC # 409 sits at the Cookville Station with a couple of cabooses behind

A closer view of # 509

Remember, these pictures were taken from the train we were riding on so not possible to set the up

TC Caboose # 9828

Here is a nicely restored speeder. What I didn't realize until editing this photo was the other speeder behind it.

Pulling into Cookville. The man in the picture is a US Senator. The lady must have been his daughter with his grandchildren. They had the

train stopped to ride it on to Monterey. Go figure, who else could have stopped a 'special train'!

 

In station to pick up additional passengers

Pulling out of station

Leaving Cookville, TN

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