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)
The local yard job shoves it's string of cars back North on the W&A main in to Junta Yard.
With a full train of salt in tow, D768 behind a pair of notched out GP's pull down the Mon Sub off of the Pittsburgh Sub on a beautiful Memorial Day at McKeesport PA.
N769 loaded coal train passes the Point of Rocks station onto the Old Main Line sub from the Metropolitan sub with a load of coal destined for Curtis Bay in Baltimore, MD. Some old school power ha... (more)
Southern Indiana looked like it might be interesting. I had some time and found out it was true with the first of several trips to what I call flat land coal country. Here is just an ordinary mi... (more)
