In a truly inspired application of irony someone named this place, desolate, cold and presided over by one lonely buzzard hungry for a meal and unlikely to find one. A coal train trundles its way... (more)

April showers are drenching western Kentucky as an inbound train of steam coal arrives behind some Santa Fe veterans at a place whose name is just a tiny bit of a misnomer. Photo by Jim Satterw... (more)

Local coal behind some classics ready to go up in smoke. Another great day chasing trains in the state I consider my second home.

After many years toiling for ATSF this old square face is tucked away in deepest western KY pulling coal from Central City to the largest TVA steam plant. And they called it Paradise.

Bringing in a coal train picked up from CSX these ex-ATSF units still have a sort of "bonnet" paint scheme. They feed to prodigious appetite of what was TVA's largest steam plant, consuming aroun... (more)

Midwest Coal Hauling CF7's 2495,2508 and 2627 lead coal empties to a Paducah & Louisville connection at Central City Ky.

Three Midwest Coal Hauling CF7's with their Santa Fe heritage paint lead coal empties away from the power plant at Paradise.

Midwest Coal Hauling GP9 2005 which obviously has a Santa Fe heritage rest between assignments at the power plant in Paradise Ky.