Let's re-rail this thread, shall we?
In the summer of 1952, the CA&L mainline south of Nashville experienced heavy flooding in late April, extending into early May of that year. Keeping trains running meant hastily arranging for reroutes heading south. Eventually, an arrangement was reached with the Mobile & Atlantic and the Noobmountain & Western, where trains would run southeast on M&A rails to Lancaster, Tennessee, where they would turn south-southwest to Leville, Alabama on the NM&W's "Down South" district. Today, we catch a five unit set of Alco FAs heading up train CA-3, an Atlanta-bound hotshot originating in Cincinnati. Our train is running as an extra over the NM&W (E207-S to be exact), which means the crew is going to be dodging out of the way of a lot of northbound traffic today.
Here, CA-3 slips down the NM&W's connection to the M&A at Lancaster:
Passing under a westbound M&A train and heading through the Lancaster station:
CA-3 then passes the NM&W's Lancaster yards:
Grinding to a halt outside the engine facility, CA-3 waits for a NM&W local freight to cross over and enter the yard:
With the local out of the way, CA-3 highballs southbound, getting a green-over-green through Spaulding, just south of Lancaster:
About to enter Spaulding tunnel:
And out the other side: