What some people consider the most ill-concieved paint scheme in modern railroad history may rarely have looked better than on this matched set of GEs preparing to leave Corbin Ky on a brisk Octob... (more)
A nearly new U30C is ready for departure with southbound coal loads.
L&N L-1 class Mountain-type number 418 is still in the early stages of running repairs at the company’s Corbin, KY backshop in this scene from 1946. The engine’s four-wheel pony, or engine tru... (more)
Leading a coal train north, L&N C-Cs from all three builders team up with an Alco C630 recently transferred from sister road SCL.
Mikes 1896 and 1831—a J-4A-J-4 doubleheader---blast out of Corbin on the “High Line” with a DeCoursey-bound train in 1942. The double tracked Cumberland Valley Division to Loyall is in the f... (more)
Steam escapes from the traps on heavyweight L&N coach 2512 as its dark blue paint reflects the platform lights at Corbin on an August evening in 1963. This is southbound train 17, the nightly Cinc... (more)
L&N 8072 coming into Corbin Yard.
The brakeman sprints ahead to line switches to get his coal train out of the yard and on the way to Georgia. Power on this day was pretty typical, a trio of U30Cs and a single SD40.
Fuel Pad- CSX's Corbin fuel pad humm's with activity on a cool December 94' evening.
Richard Beal photo: Sitting outside the freshly re"signed" engine shop at Corbin, KY. An old Clinchfield warrior suns herself.
Here a northbound train is crossing the river after just departing the huge yard.
NB train departs the area at about the only shootable spot on the north side.
L&N 1425 resting between trips at Corbin, KY || August 1973
Leased out by EML but happily with an unbutchered paint job these units were scattered around CSX pretty well. Interesting exercise, by the way, try to find the home office, CEO and phone number... (more)
Only a year after I shot them in CA these had been spurned by Big John Santa Fe and hired out as mercenaries for CSX working for something called EML.
