TTI 5793 and two other vintage U36Bs shove on the rear of a TTI coal train bound for Maysville, KY, passing the classic Bourbon Drive In. This shot sums up why I pursue almost exclusively shortli... (more)

A northbound TTI coal train rolls through Somo with four B36-7s (5911, 5815, 5857, 5819) wearing three different TTI schemes and one still painted CSX. There are three more B36-7s at the rear end ... (more)

Three B36-7s (5808, 5807, 5902) shove a northbound TTI coal train near Cowan. There are four more B36-7s on the head end.

Three B36-7s (5808, 5807, 5902) shove a coal train north over the TTI between Paris and Maysville. There are four more B36-7s on the head end.

Looks like an ordinary caboose, right? Wrong. I'd like to recommend this to more shortlines. It's an "executive caboose", air conditioning, little bar/galley, comfy sets, the works. I'm sure ship... (more)

This on is ex-Rock Island. Most of the RI units have the nose slope that is a definite U-28.

TTI has a real roundhouse, an old L&N classic.

My on-line source says this was P&LE 2820. I find that interesting, but not fascinating, so I rarely hunt frame numbers etc. I do well to occasionally follow the most important rule of photogra... (more)

Reengined and modified by their original owner MP, these units were further mutilated with a chop nose by somebody, probably TTI.

Who put that flat nose on this poor old ex-P&LE U-boat?

This nee CB&Q, ex BN U-28B is in a fresh new paint scheme but not the solid blue new paint scheme we saw the same day. This is the original with no lettering. Go figure. No 260 was still worki... (more)

This nee CB&Q, ex BN U-28B is in a fresh new paint scheme. We had the run of the place that day, thanks folks. This is the other side.

This nee CB&Q, ex BN U-28B is in a fresh new paint scheme. We had the run of the place that day, thanks folks.

On a cold dreary day in December 1986 I found a former RS3 that had been rebuilt into a GP12 and a P&LE U28B waiting to haul more coal at Paris.

An empty hopper train heads south from Maysville to Paris behind four B36-7s (5808, 5807, 5902, 5911), seen here along Strodes Run Pike near Somo, KY. This was my third attempt at shooting the TTI... (more)