Kinda nice early in a merger, not so hard to figure where every thing came from. Here a southbound rolls thru a great little town.

Named for an old and now bypassed tunnel, this hill is one of the fuel vertical challenges faced by trains between Louisville and Nashville on the storied main line. Here a southbound rainbow con... (more)

The E'town local is EB approacing an old truss bridge with a few cars for local industries.

Crossing the new bridge, the local heads back to Cecilia and the mainline after switching industries. The line used to connect with L&N in town but no more.

CSX Q235 heads south by an old L&N signal at Parkton.

CSX Q275 heads south for Nashville.

The Cecilia Local works industries on the E'town Branch during a light snowfall. Starting life in 1884 as the Hodgenville & Elizabethtown Railway (later IC), this line is still often referred to a... (more)

Heading home after being out of town I get a call from a good friend that CSX Q525 was about to leave Louisville heading south with WC power up front. I raced to intercept and caught him at Eliza... (more)

The first of many.CSX SD50 8503 the first to be painted into YN3 paint leads Q525 south for Nashville.

A sunny October afternoon finds CSX train Q215 cresting the roughly 1% Tunnel Hill grade with a nice pair of BNSF SD40-2's in Heritage I paint for power and a nice cut of stack cars on the head en... (more)

A northbound blasts past the old code line and signals on former L&N trackage.

CSXT 5010 and sisters have just got the green in Elizabethtown, KY and are pulling the long string of cars under a 10mph restriction toward Glendale, KY.

Q211 clears Parkton and throttles up after several slow orders. Note the multiple "No Trespassing" signs placed along the overpass which crosses a small creek

Q211 crests Tunnel Hill and slows for a couple of slow orders just ahead