Somewhere in the metro are a local switching job is making the rounds. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

Photo by Dave Petke. From my collection.

Growing up in the Appalachians I thought you had to have hills to have coal mines. Southwest Indiana isn't like that. Mostly it's flat, much of it is wasteland, covered with half-grown timber, s... (more)

From the get go of the merger I wanted to find these for RF&P oddballs because I didn't expect they would last long. Big surprise. They were still around the last time I checked.

Originally L&N (in this scheme), then SBD and now CSX with an odd touchup. Want to weather this one?

A outbound freight is headed geographically east and will soon reach the longest (horizontally) straight section of railroad in America. Likely it will head to the former ACL at Pembroke.

Another grizzled old veteran, by this date probably serving on a work train.

CSX M421 at the Ashland Amtrak Station

It's Friday. An EMD leader. Must be the local to Haverstraw.

M367 resumes trip Westbound after leaving bad order car in Lyons Yard.

M367 begins a setout move for a bad order car.

I162 exiting the tunnel at Fort Montgomery with CW44AH 5117 leading.

Originally C&O, on the front of a NB coal train back when almost any kind of unit could be found in that role. And back when you could actually find a train here. The Eastern Kentucky air condit... (more)

If this iron horse was a real horse it would have a very swayed back. I've always been fond of the SD35 line and especially the SDP. Apparently at some point following removal of the steam gener... (more)

The University of Louisville's football stadium sits on the site that once from 1905 to the late 80's was the L&N's south Louisville shops that built many steam locomotives and serviced diesels. T... (more)