The loader at Bluehole, Kentucky looks like it’s plenty busy as a Louisville & Nashville train of empties splits the two sides of the facility. Today, this scene is pretty much eradicated.
A coal train destined for Plant Harlee Branch near Milledgeville waits for a crew as the coach at the rear of the mixed train from Macon disappears in the distance.
Typical power for this train in the mid-90s, a Cotton Belt GP60 races CSX 145 down the former Western Railway of Alabama toward Montgomery and, eventually, a handoff at NOLA.
With a rather short train on the drawbar, Alabama Southern train 112 trundles over the Lubbub Creek trestle in Reform, Ala. before stopping for a recrew. Freshly rebuilt snoot nosed WAMX 4115 is t... (more)