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Morning clouds are breaking as Southern Railway's Knoxville local freight job works east, just after crossing the Holston River, taking several loads for delivery to industrial facilities in the town of Asbury, just outside the city of Knoxville, TN. On the point this morning is an aging G-Class Consolidation #154, which was built in 1890 by the Schenectady Locomotive Works.
This image was captured during a 2011 photo shoot on Knoxville's 3 Rivers Rambler, which featured the recently-restored Southern Railway #154. It is fitting that the 154 should spend her retirement in Knoxville, as she operated here for much of her working life, finishing her career in 1953 as the Southern's Knoxville yard goat. She's pictured here running along Asbury Road, in the town of Asbury, TN.
Very Hazy day resulting in lots of noise when attempting to recover detail. I kind of liked it though. I'll be going back up there on a clear day when there is snow on the mountains.
Former JCPenney Knoxville, TN. Knoxville Center Mall. This location closed 09/27/2017. Pictures were taken on 06/4/2016
It's 5AM and the crew of a Southern Railway Knoxville local job is tanking their aging Consolidation before departing eastbound with a number of loads destined for local industries just east of town.
This image was captured during an April, 2011 photo shoot on Knoxville's 3 Rivers Rambler, which is a tourist line that operates on the Knoxville & Holston River Railroad. The featured locomotive this day was the 1890 vintage Southern Railway Consolidation #154, which had recently been restored to operation after decades as a static display in a local park.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Booms Day, Labor Day weekend.....
The Grand Finale...:)
#112 in Explore September 29, 2006
Enola, PA to Knoxville, TN manifest 37Q creeps across the Rockville Bridge shortly after sunrise on what would be a beautiful summer day in 2012. Norfolk Southern discontinued train 37Q and counterpart 38Q in the last week after closing Sevier Yard in Knoxville as additional efforts to decrease capacity and spending across the railroad's network continue amidst the now failed attempt at E. Hunter Harrison's hostile takeover.
Scene along the Knoxville & Holston River Railroad just outside of the CMC Steel plant which it services.
The K&H also operates regular passenger excursion service over another line from near the University of Tennessee and following the banks of the Tennessee River to its origin where the French Broad and Holston Rivers merge.
The main street of Downtown Knoxville, Gay Street is home to a lot of the city’s skyscrapers, commercial buildings, and was historically lined with theaters, office buildings, department stores, and a variety of retail businesses. Historically the commercial heart of the city, today, the street features a well-preserved collection of various historical buildings built between the 19th Century and mid-20th Century, with much of the street being lined with contributing structures in the Gay Street Commercial Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Since the listing, many of the street’s historic buildings have been restored and adaptively reused for new purposes, with retail spaces on the first floor and a mix of apartments, hotels, and offices above.
The Airplane Service Station is a service station built in 1930 in the shape of an airplane. The design was inspired by Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. It's located at TN-9 or Highway 25 and Pleasant Ridge Road, northwest of Knoxville, Tennessee. It has been restored and now houses a barbershop. I visited this place on April 15, 2018.
We see here a pair of visible hand powered gasoline pumps. Early fuel station gasoline pumps were hand powered and derived from kerosene pumps. Around 1915, "visible" pumps began to appear in American gasoline stations. Fuel was still pumped by hand, but it now flowed into a graduated cylinder inside a glass protective enclosure. The customer could see how much gasoline was being dispensed and how clear and free of contaminants it was. The gasoline then flowed by gravity into the vehicle fuel tank.
From Wikipedia:
Greystone, also called the Camp House, is a prominent historic home in Knoxville, Tennessee, that houses the studios and offices of WATE-TV. It is an imposing structure, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The mansion is located at 1306 Broadway (US441).
Major Eldad Cicero Camp began constructing his home in 1885. Architect Alfred B. Mullet designed the mansion in the Richardson Romanesque style. Mullett had previously designed the Customs House building in downtown Knoxville. The home is two and a half stories, with a three-story tower in the front. The exterior of the home is sheathed in stone from a quarry in Lake City, Tennessee. The home contains elaborate hand-carved mantels from France. Each room is paneled in a different type of wood. The heads of windows include stained glass panels, and 22 different types of marble are used in the house. The site also includes a carriage house.
Major Camp was born in Ohio, served in the Union army during the Civil War, made Knoxville his home and was appointed a U.S. District Attorney by President Ulysses S. Grant.
The Camp family used the home until 1935. When Camp's heirs were no longer able to maintain the house, they sold some of the furnishings and subdivided the mansion into apartments. The condition of the building declined during its rental use, until WATE-TV purchased the building in 1965 at a cost of $75,000. Over the next two years, the mansion was restored and renovated for use by the television station. The restoration and renovation process cost $1.5 million. The first floor of the building was preserved and restored largely in its original form. A new 13,000-square-foot addition on the back of the building housed the station's studios. In April 1973, Greystone was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Built in 1937, this Art Deco and Art Moderne-style building was built to house the Knoxville location of the S&W Cafeteria, a chain of cafeteria-style restaurants headquartered in Charlotte, NC that operated in the Southern United States between 1920 and the 1990s. The building was in operation as a S&W Cafeteria until the early 1980s, when it closed, as a result of changing tastes and consumer habits, combined with the decline of Gay Street as a retail and entertainment corridor. The building remains very well-preserved, partially as a result of the efforts of the preservation nonprofit Knox Heritage, which helped spearhead the preservation of the building during the construction of the adjacent Rivera Theater in 2007, and subsequent restoration of the building between 2007 and 2009, with it reopening as the S&W Grand Cafe in 2009. Unfortunately, this venture proved unsuccessful, and the restaurant closed in 2011, with an Aveda Institute (cosmetology school) having occupied the building since. The building appears to possibly have been created by the joining and heavy modification of two preexisting 19th Century commercial buildings, though information on its early history remains unclear. However, the building features a low-slope rear shed roof with a parapet in the middle, terra cotta panels with varying textures and forms on the exterior, a central window opening with curved facades on either side, Egyptian-inspired trim above the window, and trim panels in a basket weave pattern underneath the window, an aluminum canopy over the street, and a first floor storefront with a large glass window, wooden revolving door, and polished stone panels. Inside, the building features many of its original fittings and finishes, including terrazzo floors, cantilevered wooden staircase with aluminum railings, a ceiling with octagonal light fixtures and decorative panels, wooden paneling on the columns, large mirrors, decorative Art Deco wallpaper, and a wood-paneled bar. The building is a contributing structure in the Gay Street Commercial Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
The Airplane Service Station is a service station built in 1930 in the shape of an airplane. The design was inspired by Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. It's located at TN-9 or Highway 25 and Pleasant Ridge Road, northwest of Knoxville, Tennessee. It has been restored and now houses a barbershop. I visited this place on April 15, 2018.
We see here a pair of visible hand powered gasoline pumps. Early fuel station gasoline pumps were hand powered and derived from kerosene pumps. Around 1915, "visible" pumps began to appear in American gasoline stations. Fuel was still pumped by hand, but it now flowed into a graduated cylinder inside a glass protective enclosure. The customer could see how much gasoline was being dispensed and how clear and free of contaminants it was. The gasoline then flowed by gravity into the vehicle fuel tank.