A pair of RJ Corman SD70M's emerge from Tunnel 8 and catch the last tiny sliver of evening light in Ford, Kentucky after meeting a CSX coal train on the other side. Running as Z544 over CSX's CC S... (more)

In no doubt familiar territory still looking spiffy in its merger scheme this GE is hustling a southbound freight through the beautiful countryside with Nashville as the objective. Photo by Jim ... (more)

Running several hours off schedule for the third time in the past week due to equipment issues in Chicago, Amtrak No. 50 (P050 on CSX), the eastbound "Cardinal", leaves the skyline of th... (more)

The things we see come and go. Note the Union Pacific road railer. This train is southbound. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

KD tower is the far distant right of the screen. This SB train has just entered single track which will continue to Revilo several miles south. For whatever reason NS has not double tracked this... (more)

It just don't look right. For various reasons having to due with signals, avoiding turning and union contracts for s few years lo nose units ran long hood forward and had their control panels on ... (more)

As if showing the newbies around, veteran ex N&W unit leads two new GP59s at the head of an intermodal train pulling the grade after crossing the Green River.

Just north of the little hamlet double track begins even to this day. Here a northbound ballast train roars by at this favorite site. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

The RJ Corman Kentucky Line's empty Alcan aluminum slab train crosses over the Kentucky River as it comes into Frankfort, Kentucky on a bridge that parallels an abandoned road bridge that once car... (more)

A southbound merchandise train in the trench that replaced the "Rathole" tunnel that existed before. The photographer probably had his eye on one of the many "free" cedars for... (more)

Is it OK to call yourself a "pre ditch light" railfan? Just a thought. In any case, NS had two really rare models and here is one on a SB double stack train in the remote Bluegrass State country... (more)

After crossing the south fork of the Green River the CNO&TP began a major climb to this small hamlet. This used to require a narrow gassy tunnel. No more, thanks to a forward-thinking Southern R... (more)

A pair of NS rebuilds, one from Wabtec and one from Progress Rail, lead Norfolk Southern manifest freight 376 as it heads north over High Bridge, crossing over the Kentucky River in High Bridge, K... (more)

The "Rathole" is an actually a study in contrasts all the way from Cincinnati to Emory Gap. This is one of the flat areas that intersperse with the rugged territory. Hear a hot SB merc... (more)

Northbound hoppers at a location which has changed much since the days when a tower was really here. The broom sedge emerging after the line relocation has no doubt given way to scrub pines and b... (more)