I can almost hear the cicadas along this neat country road on a hot, humid and hazy September 11, 1988, at Pinola Indiana. Around the curve rolls a westbound Conrail coal train headed for Chicago.
It is 9/5/03 and 2:15 in the afternoon, wildflowers are in full bloom, and CSX Q649 is southbound splitting the Monon semaphores formerly located at Romney, IN. Fujichrome Velvia.
Southern Indiana is flat, more or less, not what the boy from Appalachia thinks of as coal country but nevertheless they produce millions of tons from pit mining and three railroads converged at ... (more)