EVWR sister units 3838 and 3839 make an extra rare weekend run on the west end of the branch

Interesting unit from diesel spotters standpoint. Modern frame would indicate GP-40 but it was in fact a late GP35, built on Alco trucks for GM&O, was on ICG, then a VMV demonstrator, etc. Still... (more)

Former Phelps Dodge unit has the tiny tank as a spotting clue.

EVWR 3840 and two other geeps leading the MVL1 out of Mt Vernon for Evansville to do interchange with CSX.

CSX and L&N have left little doubt to the milepost, as a coal train returns west from a barge transload for another load of Illinois sub-bituminous.

With a pair of industrial switchers in tow, the daily turn to interchange with CSX in Evansville, IN has a few more hours of switching before completing the turn. The original crew ran out of hou... (more)

Evansville Western switches the Port of Indiana.

For anyone who thinks the Evansville Western is just a podunk shortline...

With continued traffic growth, Evansville Western recently CTCed the eastern end of the railroad and extended sidings. The Sunday edition of the Mt Vernon, IN-Evansville, IN turn passes through t... (more)

With a quartet of export locomotives from VMV Mt Vernon, IL facility, Evansville Western's Mt Vernon Local #2 heads east to interchange with CSX in Evansville.

Not your typical CSX coal train power. Evansville Western train HVH129 is running 3x2 DPU over CSX to tie down just north of town at Harwood, where a CSX crew will take over this evening for the ... (more)

A three-unit set of Evansville Western locomotives lays over for the evening in Mount Vernon, Indiana, on September 28, 2017. Fifty-seven-year-old EVWR 3835 as built in September 1965 as Gulf Mob... (more)

Eastbound ballast train heads east past the restored Nashville depot.

After loading at Princeton Indiana an Evansville & Western coal train heads south over CSX rails.

After coupling to its train, the EVWR four motor units begin their return journey eastbound.