Flemingsburg is like an old movie. just a station in the middle of nowhere, by this date just a place where M of W equipment ties up. Here a southbound empty train rattles by and soon the birds a... (more)

Early model U28Bs are best distinguished from the U25 by the sloping nose. This former CRI&P unit was photographed by Dave Petke. From my collection.

Fall is well along as a huge string of old GEs chug into town with radiators blocked by fallen leaves. The train is empty so maybe nothing overheated on the way.

A quartet of TTI B36-7's bring a loaded coal train north through Carlisle,KY bound for barge loading at Maysville

It’s hot, no I means it’s HOT, and humid, as the daily loaded coal train descends the steep grade to there connection with CSX’s former C&O main. Dynamics brakes are working hard. They’l... (more)

After delivering coal loads at Maysville a quartet of TTI B36-7's head back to Paris Ky. for what would be one of their final trips. Plenty of fans were about to record their final runs.

Another day at the TTI with a whole lot of nothing going on. They are left with one transload customer within the yard and have a handful of stored coal cars shoved up the main a few mines.

ex-RI 244

ex/exx-CSXT/SBD 5763, nee-SCL 1812

TTI 260, a former CB&Q U28B, basks in the sun at the Illinois Railway Museum. CSX recently donated this unit to the museum and it will eventually be painted into CB&Q red.

Three General Electric locomotives take the spotlight in IRM's yard 5 during Diesel Day's. From the left: TTI 260 (GE U28B), BN 5383 (GE U30C), and UP 1848 (GE B40-8)

TTI 260 gets christened at the Illinois Railway Museum during their Diesel Days event.

TTI U28B 260 makes a debut run on the caboose train, passing the semaphores at East Switch.

For the first time in many years, TTI (IRMX) 260 makes it debut, running the caboose train at the Illinois Railway Museum.

IRM's newest addition, the TTI 260, sits next to the BN 5383 and UP 1848 at IRM. The 260 will eventually be painted into its original CB&Q Chinese red paint scheme to match the museum's existing S... (more)