GenSet rests at the former US Steel Prep plant facility that Progress now owns. It along with a few other odd ball locomotives call this place home.

Looks like a great Chessie paint job. It's awfully tempting to get out the old clone tool and make some alterations.

Four big L&N C-C units idle at the fuel and sanding gantry at Corbin in 1965--a GE U25C and four Alco Centuries. When they were new, L&N's six-motor units tended to get filthy from coal dust, road... (more)

L&N Alco C628 number 1411 did not have a long service life. Along with five other L&N six motor units, she was totaled in a horrendous head-on collision at Amherst, TN on May 12, 1969. Four years ... (more)

The "class" unit of L&N's group of Alco C628s idles under the old coaling and sanding tower at Corbin, KY. The big Alcos were unusually prone to being dirty, owing to a combination of co... (more)

Another iteration of the locomotive-slug combinations that have worked here for decades. This time the leader was originailly SCL, then SBD, before becoming CSX.

An Atlanta-Cincinnati freight is stopped for a crew change in Corbin, KY. Traffic on this once-busy corridor is way down because of declines in coal production.

I guess I was glad that the road slug program at least preserved the carbody. It is my understanding that these units do not "pass gas" so I wonder why all the fuel stains are on the ta... (more)

Resplendent in stealth, if resplendent was possible, this version of the CV local heads out for a days work.

Necessity if the mother of invention. I was walking around the engine terminal at Corbin, KY about 1 AM (try doing that today!) while waiting to board a passenger train that wouldn't be in until 3... (more)

L&N's first six-motor power came in 1964 in the form of the Alco C628, such as the 1407, shown at Corbin's old back shop. The units were the first new power on the L&N with dynamic braking. Alas, ... (more)

The southbound CSX deadhead move of the Kentucky Derby Train gets underway at Corbin, KY after a quick crew change and fuel stop lead by F40PHs 9998 and 9993.

This war-weary GP38 in the servicing bay at the then-new shop and locomotive facilities at Corbin, KY obviously was once a Louisville & Nashville unit (4042). It's gone through several iterations ... (more)

Seaboard System GP30 1370--shown in company with two U30Cs--had only recently been renumbered from L&N 1034 in this first year after the demise of the Old Reliable. The FRA ended up getting on the... (more)

Taken from the Monon and moved to the coal fields, these units lasted about another decade hauling coal and looking good with the jaunty bell mounted on the short hood.