Still looking good after many years, this ex-ATSF gator is loafing along on trackage operated by Squaw Creek, Yankeetown Dock and Norfolk Southern. It's a pie job.

As my Kentucky sojourn was ending I decided to get back to over to this operation. While not as exciting as the Alco alligator that was here previously it was good to see at least one of the rare... (more)

Remember Tim the Tool Man Taylor from TV. More power, arrh, arrh, arrh!. I may be a throwback but I like smoke occasionally.

My wife called and said she'd seen a special train so the chase was on. Carrying export locomotives with trucks on heavy duty flatcars this high and wide was probably destined for Norfolk. As ye... (more)

After picking up interchange from UP a pair of beautiful C-628s trundle back past the late great tower. This was about their only running forays away from the yard. We used to call the places u... (more)

Easing along, an interesting consist. Photo by Gary W. Zeitler. Note that Manufacturers Railway insulated boxcar in the background. It proves that it’s okay to raise the roof if it means you ... (more)

Want to have some fun, get your head into the game? Try changing a out a piston on an Alco 251-12. Again we need to thank the guys out here sweatin' and cussin' and doing the dirty tedious work ... (more)

Back when freight moved on this grade a northbound train is preparing for the climb. Excuse me if I don't show up to see the bicycles. Photo by Leroy Robl. From my collection.

Waiting for a train to shove over Beaumont Hill.

Sitting in the midst of a ramshackle infrastructure which resulting to a great decree from management waiting for a merger that never occurred this of Geep may be contemplating its future. The en... (more)

In those days we always expected Alcos here and finding a low horsepower EMD B-B was a big surprise. This is the Patio switcher spotting a reefer.

Ex C&NW unit, ersatz WM, they never had any.

EB coal approaching the passing siding. Of course you can rationalize if you will but this is late March forty two years ago. Notice the foliage. It's late March 2023. Leaves are out, trees ar... (more)

Faded glory,yet distinguished. Basking in the Sunday sun by a cornfield with a river nearby, bucolic ain’t the word. With a wide variety of power one never knows what will appear next.

What a great little town. All our friends thought we were weird going to the Mississippi for vacation but we had a fantastic time.