Photos from the SARM 2009 Photo Weekend
On March 20 & 21, 2009, SARM operated their annual photo freight event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This year the photo freight used the recently restored Alco C-420, Louisville & Nashville 1315. (Page 1 of 2.)
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The event got started Friday afternoon as the train was put together and the tracks were cleared for the event. Here, 1315 is on the Poplar Creek bridge on the K-Line, moving a string of intermodal flats. |
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Here the crew is switching two former US Army fuel
tank cars, recently acquired from the Y-12 nuclear weapons facility,
thanks to the help of the US Department of Energy.
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We generally try to feature a night photo session during these events, and Steve Barry of Railfan & Railroad Magazine was on hand to do just that. Here is L&N 1315 lit up in all her glory. |
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Looking like a scene from Coal Country, L&N 1315
is lit up parked next to an N&W caboose.
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On Saturday, we started with screaming sunshine and took advantage of it with almost a dozen runbys by noon. Here is 1315 in the woods near Blair, where several scenes for the movie "October Skies" were filmed. |
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We also used a C-420 on the passenger train, hauling
60 passengers between the photo locations. Here it is seen near the
north end of the line at Blair.
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Here is 1315 doing what she was built to do - haul freight. |
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What is more Appalachian than an L&N C-420 passing
a house up a holler? Here we do it on SARM's museum line.
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Here is 1315 on the Robinette bridge, a favorite photo location on the line. |
All photos this page by Barton Jennings.