At the small yard a couple of local geeps rest and watch the new kids still in their old paint & numbers wheeling a a southbound merchandiser.

This one didn't keep its as-delivered Family Lines paint job for very long. It was probably an L&N unit. The chain is ususally a dead giveaway.

Shunned by their Clinchfield purchasers these were taken into the SCL fold in trade for some SD45s and became SBD. Photo from my collection, photographer unknown.

Sporting a new number but no CSXT lettering this nice looking unit leads an inbound train. Consists seemed more interesting in those days.

Owned by CSX at this point but still looking good. Happily they omitted the reporting marks.

Newly minted. If you look closely you can see the strobe lights on the cab roof. These lasted almost no time. Apparently they blinded the crews at night.

There is a beautiful green SAL unit in there trying to get out. Oh, what a colorful group CSX could come up with if they had heritage units.

Relettered former SCL unit.

Originally bought by Clinchfield.

Railfans watch a SB freight charging down the former-ACL main. BTW these same fans found and reported multiple failed bolts in the crossovers. Did it prevent a wreck? Who knows.

One a previous posting I said I hadn't shot another unit with its old L&N number but here is another.

Originally L&N, this example of EMD's finest lookds great in the new paint. Now, about that water tank.

A southbound coal train passes Camp 2 on the old Clinchfield.

Well into the CSX era, their painters haven't got to this former-L&N jewel still earning its keep in familiar territory.

This unit started out in one of the most beautiful diesel color schemes as Seaboard Air Line and finally managed to look good again. Here she's in short term storage and the core is probably stil... (more)