A mine shifter is leaving Shelby Yard with a train of empty hoppers to deliver to a coal mine in a scene repeated over and over again at this southern Kentucky terminal. Railroad: Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O)
Locomotive: GE U23B
Location: Shelbiana, Kentucky, USA
Locomotive #: CO 2309
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: August, 1984

C&O 2309 and B&O 3690 are grabbing a caboose to add to their train of empty hoppers before departing for the Kentucky coalfields.