Winding slowly downgrade on the serpentine branch this loaded mine run was an easy chase. Though wearing its short-lived Seaboard System number it still bears the proud logo of SCL's whipping boy... (more)

On short term lease these units made things interesting in the nineties and I missed most of them but got lucky on this date. I might have caught him in the street in La Grange had gotten out a b... (more)

Battered but not beaten this former L&N veteran sits proudly in the winter sunlight. Photo by Craig Hatter. From my collection.

Decorated for in state rival Kentucky and Louisville Universities, a pair of specially painted GP-38-2 units power a charter train.

Looking pretty good after a few years, a small relief from "stealth" is on the point of a southbound train.

Passing C&O signals down the Big Sandy Sub CSX 7021 leads manifest train M692 towards Shelby.

Bought by Conrail, owned by Norfolk Southern, operating on CSX with an MPI leaser this unit is tiptoeing down the center of Main Street in about the only mainline street running left. Oh, be sure... (more)

Mine Run R233 rolls around the bend at the foot of Burton Hill, while running alongside Ky Route 7 in the quiet community of Letcher, Kentucky. This train was recently loaded at Leatherwood and is... (more)

Above average temperatures and elevated humidity lay along the Levisa Fork as Shelby-bound CSX M653 approaches GC Cabin on CSX's ex-Chesapeake & Ohio Big Sandy Subdivision.

SD70 2522 leads a northbound freight.

CSX M209 leads its train through a Louisville neighborhood as it heads for Osborn yard.

A common hangout for me in those days, this was a busy place. This former C&O unit is awaiting work.

Originally C&O, on the front of a NB coal train back when almost any kind of unit could be found in that role. And back when you could actually find a train here. The Eastern Kentucky air condit... (more)

The University of Louisville's football stadium sits on the site that once from 1905 to the late 80's was the L&N's south Louisville shops that built many steam locomotives and serviced diesels. T... (more)

Nee C & O rebuilt and derated to 2000 HP.