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.
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.