Blue power under blue skies on the PAL. SD70MAC #2012 and GMTX 2661 lead train CC2 at West Point, KY.

Paducah & Louisville's UofL (2013) and UK (2012) painted SD70MAC's lead a hopper train over the new bridge as they climb Muldraugh Hill southbound.

PAL LG3 charges up Muldraugh Hill behind a perfectly matched set of P&L 4-axles: 2112/2119 (slug/GP40-3), 3810 (GP38-2), 3803 (GP38-2), 2106/2107 (slug/GP40-3). LG3 handles empties south from LG&E... (more)

Paducah & Louisville train LG3 passes a house in West Point, KY paint in the P&L color scheme and adored with a crossbuck at the gable end of the house. Both the train and the photographer are ru... (more)

Late running coal loads for LG&E Mill Creek drop down Muldraugh Hill, northbound in the morning. "Hard times and trouble" struck on Rosine Hill earlier in the night, and another slug-set... (more)

Three mother/slugs and a GP40-2 lead the Mill Creek empties south up Muldraugh Hill. With seven 4-axles, chasing this train just seemed like the right thing to do. Traditional PAL consists like th... (more)

As sleet pelts me on gloomy late winter day three matched PAL SD70MACS leads coal empties back to the mines in western Kentucky.

P&L train LG 3, Cane Run empties, heads south past West Point, Ky on a warm March afternoon.

A pair of SD70MAC's heads south over the new bridge as they climb Muldraugh Hill with empties from LG&E's Cane Run Generating Station. The second unit, PAL 4522, is one of the few remaining MAC's ... (more)

LG&E Mill Creek empties climb the grade southbound behind a typical mixed bag consist. On this day, PAL's UofL unit is in command. With the newly acuqired SD70MAC's coming on the scene, we can exp... (more)

A southbound local crosses the new bridge (completed mid 2012) as it climbs Muldraugh Hill. This bridge replaced an ancient structure known among railroaders as the "straight trestle" or "low tres... (more)

Empties from LG&E's Cane Run plant climb Muldraugh Hill behind an interesting mix of EMD power that includes a mother/slug (PAL 2120/2117), SD70MAC (PAL 4516), and SD60 (GMTX 9041). The new bridge... (more)

CSX automotive train L204-19 is led by KCS ES44ACs 4684 and 4691 on its way from Louisville to Evansville. The train will be skirting the Ohio River for the next dozen miles of so. The foreign ... (more)

"New" power on the new bridge... P&L Transportation has recently acquired sixteen SD70MAC's from CSX for use on the PAL/EVWR/A&O system. Here we find PAL 2120/2117 leading the 2nd batch of eight M... (more)

Work nears completion on the first of two bridges to be replaced on P&L's "Muldraugh Hill" between West Point and Fort Knox. Before construction began a forested hillside sloped down to the edge o... (more)