GP50 7010 still in its Southern paint leads an eastbound by MP 295 as it heads for Danville then points south.

Built for the Southern in 1973 today SD40-2 3219 is regulated to yard duty. Here it has pulled out onto the lead of the K&I bridge as it works the Louisville yard.

Reportedly ex-MP and considering the replacement headlight with no number boards I would guess originally C&EI. Don't even know where I got the road name from. I found the thing by accident.

These were around for a while looking good and sounding almost as good as the ones with the real 20-cylinder 645s under the hood. I keep waiting for somebody to do an SD30. After all, parts is ju... (more)

Cincinnati to Louisville NS 335 with the Reading heritage unit waits at Buechel for traffic to clear up and shortly a new crew.

Winding slowly downgrade on the serpentine branch this loaded mine run was an easy chase. Though wearing its short-lived Seaboard System number it still bears the proud logo of SCL's whipping boy... (more)

On short term lease these units made things interesting in the nineties and I missed most of them but got lucky on this date. I might have caught him in the street in La Grange had gotten out a b... (more)

Battered but not beaten this former L&N veteran sits proudly in the winter sunlight. Photo by Craig Hatter. From my collection.

Decorated for in state rival Kentucky and Louisville Universities, a pair of specially painted GP-38-2 units power a charter train.

Looking pretty good after a few years, a small relief from "stealth" is on the point of a southbound train.

Passing C&O signals down the Big Sandy Sub CSX 7021 leads manifest train M692 towards Shelby.

Bought by Conrail, owned by Norfolk Southern, operating on CSX with an MPI leaser this unit is tiptoeing down the center of Main Street in about the only mainline street running left. Oh, be sure... (more)

Mine Run R233 rolls around the bend at the foot of Burton Hill, while running alongside Ky Route 7 in the quiet community of Letcher, Kentucky. This train was recently loaded at Leatherwood and is... (more)

SD70 2522 leads a northbound freight.

CSX M209 leads its train through a Louisville neighborhood as it heads for Osborn yard.