A month old corn crop awaits the rising sun as CSX train Q573 passes through Bardstown Junction, KY.

CITX 2811 leads CSX automotive train Q244 across the P&L diamond which is under the US 31W overpass at West Point, KY.

A friendly wave from engineer J.L. Scott as a P&L empty coal train gets under way from the LG&E Cane Run generating station. This was one of the last trains to serve the plant which was converted... (more)

CSX Main Line local J765 idles at Lebanon Junction while the crew takes a takes a break.

NS train 956 passes through Louisville on its way to St. Louis to rendezvous with N&W Y-6 #2156. GP40-2 #3068 leads an auxiliary tender, two office cars and a baggage (tool) car.

The RJ Corman Derby Special is about a mile from its destination at Central Avenue where passengers will disembark for Churchill Downs and the 141st running of the Kentucky Derby. GP38-3s 3802 a... (more)

The first step in removal of the superheater tubes from L&N 4-6-2- #152 at the Kentucky Railway Museum. Connections are heated to ease loosening them at the smokebox end of the tubes.

The last light in the evening sky silhouettes CSX train Y220 as it steps carefully across the Louisville & Indiana Bridge toward Jeffersonville, IN.

CSX Merchandise train Q554 passes the iconic L&N coaling tower at Irvington. The town features the structure on its logo. On an unusually busy afternoon on the “Texas” this train was follow... (more)

NS SD75M 2803 leads train 111 through New Albany. The freshly painted locomotive was BNSF 8222, one of seven acquired by NS. Behind it is SD60E 6905 and a C40-9W.

CSX train Q511 is about a half mile from cresting the grade up from the Mill Creek watershed at Campbellsburg and beginning the descent into the valley of the Little Kentucky River.

A variety of locomotives head north on the CSX Short Line Sub at Campbellsburg, KY. Behind CSXT 41 and IC 1029, freshly painted MEC 616 and GMTX (Finger Lakes Railway) 3301 are on the climb out o... (more)

RJ Corman train Z546 does some semi-street running on the Water Street Lead to switch customers along this former L&N track. Although Bourbon is king in Louisville, the tracks here are bracketed ... (more)

The Paducah & Louisville has a stretch of track literally on the banks of the Ohio River between Kosmosdale and West Point, KY. Here PAL CC2 heads south along the river on its way to Cecilia.

Chessie 614 struts out of Thurmond, WV with the Chessie Safety Express after a photo run by. The train had begun the day at Cliftion Forge, VA.