An extra weekend Scotty's Stone turn passes the "Jerusalem Ridge" marker, homeplace of Bluegrass legend Bill Monroe, at the foot of Rosine Hill. The crew is handling 30 loads of rock sou... (more)

Military loads bridge across the P&L between the LIRC at Louisville and BNSF at Paducah.

Northbound Mill Creek coal train with the radio unit screaming like a banshee at St. John.

An empty Mill Creek train rolls south through Summit on a perfect spring evening with a pair of MACs bringing up the rear.

UofL painted PAL 2013 leads the Mill Creek empties south through Vine Grove, with two more MACs out of site at rear of train. Now that P&L has equipped their SD70MACs with distributed power, both ... (more)

A late running PL4 drops down the steep grade coming north out of Clarkson. Normally a nocturnal train, PL49 (relief crew symbol) was running hours late thanks to a frigid night and multiple broke... (more)

An empty Paducah and Louisville coal train out of the Mill Creek Generating Station climbs over the first of two bridges over Muldraugh Hill in the quickly fading evening light.

The Mill Creek empties head south at Dixie Beach Road on a gorgeous spring evening. All three units (4501, 4503, 4523) had fresh paint jobs from VMV at the time of this April 2014 scene.

Fresh out of the paint shop at VMV and shining like a new dollar, PAL 4516 leads the Cane Run empties south at Deering Road. Two MACs were just shy of what was needed to get the Cane Run loads ove... (more)

Happy 30th Anniversary P&L!!! August 27, 1986 - August 27, 2016. Paducah & Louisville Railway began operations 30 years ago today as a spinoff from the shrinking Illinois Central Gulf system of th... (more)

The Cane Run empties head south through "Riney", cresting the hill at MP 42 with a classic P&L consist. Unfortunately, Cane Run converted to natural gas and received their last coal trai... (more)

An extra local crosses the Salt River at West Point with P&L's recently painted Veterans unit in command. At the time of this photo PAL 2129 was suffering from injector issues and looking a bit fi... (more)

The Mill Creek empties depart Kosmosdale behind University of Kentucky inspired PAL 4522, passing the Kosmos Cement plant on their way south. The recently painted unit wears a special scheme (simi... (more)

PAL 4522 leads the Mill Creek empties south through Stephensburg. The recently painted SD70MAC is one of three P&L units wearing University of Kentucky inspired colors, including PAL 1998 (GP38-2)... (more)

Southbound Cane Run empties at Horton, KY. This was the last one I would shoot before LG&E Cane Run stopped receiving coal.