Coal, coal everywhere and a standard configuration of power prepares to depart down the former L&N to feed the hungry steam plants in the south. These must have looked great when clean which didn... (more)

The Oneida & Western "Green Train" passes through Atlanta with four matching SD40-2's built to L&N specs. Photo by Richard Thomason.

April Fool's Day and Mother Nature did it. Just as I was about to leave the sun came out! At the filth was magnificent. This train is preparing to go south with a unit coal train.

Oneida and Western SD40-2 9956 outside the EMD La Grange Plant in McCook IL October 1979. The two-tone green scheme of the O&W sure looked sharp when brand new. James Claflin Photo from my Collect... (more)

Oneida and Western SD40-2 9951 at the EMD La Grange Plant in McCook IL October 1979. The Oneida and Western was not an actual railroad with it's own tracks but rather a way for Shamrock Coal Co to... (more)

Oneida & Western (OWTX) SD40-2 #9951 leading a Shamrock Coal Company train by Tilford Yard. #9951 was built September 1979 and later became British Columbia (BCOL) #744

The Oneida & Western was a railroad without track. Due to the Louisville & Nashville’s inability to supply sufficient empty cars and power, the Shamrock Coal Company bought its own cars and SD40... (more)

The Shamrock Coal unit train is headed east on a shoo-fly in Tucker, GA. The construction is for an overpass above Fellowship Road to eliminate a crossing. The former Seaboard station is visible a... (more)

The coolest shortline there never was (this version, at least-- see comment below). I wish I had better photo skills (and the will to photograph trains somewhere outside of Bennett Yard and SY To... (more)

Shamrock Coal's Oneida and Western unit train comes out of the woods in Tucker on an eastbound run. The four SD40-2 units are hauling coal to South Carolina on the western of two routes through Kn... (more)

Shamrock Coal's Oneida and Western unit train is westbound with empties from South Carolina at Tucker. It was a real treat to find this train waiting for a meet at the west end of the double track... (more)

Oneida & Western coal train near Pineville, KY || October 1983

Back in the good old days Corbin necessitated at least a yearly trip. They seemed to change the yard switchers every year and they were always something exotic. Then you had these guys. God see... (more)

One of two cabeese owned by the colorful operation. Hardly seems possible that it was 33 years ago.

Three Oneida & Western SD40-2s lead an empty coal hopper train at Pineville, KY in 1985. These engines were owned by Shamrock Coal Company and built to L&N specs. They were later sold to the Briti... (more)