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.
L&N U30C #1472 in Corbin, KY awaiting its next assignment in August 1973.
L&N SD35 #1216 awaiting its next assignment in Corbin, KY || August 1973
Okay it is CSX but we can dream that Clinchfield is coming back as if by magic and by the time she reached Williamsburg we had a gray SD-45-2.
L&N 1326 in Corbin, KY
L&N SD40-2 #3583 in Corbin, October 1975.
L&N RS-3 #1350 and a slug working the yard at Corbin, KY.
SBD U18B #1910 in Corbin, KY, November 1985.
L&N C628 #1425 in Corbin, August '73.