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With its day complete, GM&O 4832 sits idle at the East Chattanooga depot waiting its turn to use the turntable before being shut down for the night.

Making its last trip of the day, GM&O 4832 departs Grand Junction with the final "Evening Ridge Runner" for the 2024 season at TVRM.

With only a couple trips left for the day, GM&O 4832 exits the west end of the Missionary Ridge Tunnel with the 5PM "Evening Ridge Runner". This was supposed to be a double header with SOU 630, but 630 had to be withdrawn from service due to maintenance.

Working back to Grand Junction, SOU 4501 (disguised as GM&O 4832 for the weekend) crosses South Chickamauga Creek with the 11AM "Missionary Ridge Local"

East Broad Top #16 making its public return at the Winter Spectacular, Feb. 18, 2023.

As expected, the return of steam to the Narrow Gauge of the East brough out railfans in the hundreds--trains for the Winter Spectacular either sold out or were near capacity, and I'd wager around 200 people converged on the Long Fill and Runk Road overpass. But only four elected to shoot the morning frieght run through the open barn doors.

As part of the East Broad Top Railroad's 2022 Winter Spectacular, a night photo session was offered and a cold EBT #12 aka "Millie" was the star of the shoot. Here the locomotive and crew members pose by the sand tower inside the Rockhill Furnace shop and yard complex. Lighting was provided by Christopher Pollock, Steve Barry and Michael Burkhart. The smoke and steam effects were applied to the locomotive via smoke sticks. East Broad Top Railroad #12 was the first and smallest mikado locomotive (2-8-2) to enter the EBT's roster. Millie, as she was named in 1960 by owner Nick Kovalchick after his daughter, was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia in 1911 and was capable of hauling 15 loaded hoppers from the coal mines.