A bitterly cold day but beautiful sun and no one around. Along line of motive power. Outstanding.

And the bubble reads "Maybe if we're quiet he won't notice us."

At the giant quarry near Kentucky Dam another gravel train is loading.

A local tiptoes by some old buildings with cars for an industry. Lucky business. As I recall IC Industries was more interested in bottling fizzy sugar water or some such at that time. Photo by ... (more)

More of an orange than a pumpkin, from the hue of the thing. I like the model, they did a good job on the rebuild. My first trip to Fulton, a bucket list location.

It strikes me that it's probably possible to track the history of the Paducah rebuild program by the appurtenances used on the excellent rebuilt units. The tri-lights replaced Pyle rotating light... (more)

Not exactly stealth but not exactly pretty, but at least they stopped doing "bug eye" headlights. Not a great number of these were done.

Northbound past the closed tower at a great place to watch trains. Unit was originally BN. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.

That slanting stack is unique. Great time to be in Arkansas.

These didn't impress at the time but most have worked many years for their later owners.

A rather regular event was L&N power running in from Memphis.

Drowsing on the holiday weekend this unit has the as-built paint scheme, albeit filthy, and the early long hood configuration.

Accelerating past the ball fields with WB mixed freight. Channeling Bob Uecker I’d say she’s looking “Juusstt a little worse for wear” at this point.

Historical perspective. I have been railfanning since 1964 or so and have only seen one or two VOs. Never heard one run. Point is steamers are not the only thing that goes way back. This beast... (more)

Ah, the variety there used to be in Cincy. The DT&I came in on trackage rights ending up at Southern's Ludlow terminal. Often they were kinda highjacked to shove trains up the short but steep gr... (more)