"Back in the day" we didn't have blogs, etc. to get news. Geeps did not do well in the coal fields and were hardly ever seen in those parts. To this day we wonder what occasioned the visit of tw... (more)

How I wish these had caught on! Somehow I don't think equipping an RS-3 with a 251 was really a program at all. From all I've heard about South Louisville, they probably had a couple of extras 2... (more)

A big chunky overworked workhorse.

Bearing a number from a numbering scheme that just never fully materialized this unit shows evidence of participation in the great coal boom of the period.

Bearing a number from a numbering scheme that just never fully materialized this unit shows evidence of participation in the great coal boom of the period.

How the mighty hath fallen. Bearing evidence of its short-lived 5600 number this ex-demo unit is a lowly yard switcher bearing evidence of South Louisville's make-do modifications. She won't las... (more)

These morphed a little and actually got a repaint before their demise. Somebody important must have visited.

All over Eastern Kentucky there were these "boomers" from other original owners with their slugs. The slugs were cut down RS-3s. This unit came from Tennessee Central. I don't think I ever saw ... (more)

On my periodic trips to Corbin in the good old days I would always wonder what they'd be switching with this time. These "phospate refugess" we just one on many sets of switchers that came and we... (more)

Northbound on the L&N main to Cincinnati, a CN C40-8 leads a mixed freight across the CC Subdivision, south of Corbin.

Yeah, I know it's CSX but they forgot the initials.

An assortment of retired locomotives sit in storage on the south side of CSX's Corbin yard along the former L&N from Corbin to Etowah. The stored locomotives included CSX's infamous SD40-2 No. 888... (more)

Newly minted. If you look closely you can see the strobe lights on the cab roof. These lasted almost no time. Apparently they blinded the crews at night.

Well into the CSX era, their painters haven't got to this former-L&N jewel still earning its keep in familiar territory.

As the engineer intently eyes him move the guy on the ground appears to be heading for that bench. The unit was originally SAL, then SCL, then L&N.