A local set sits idles with a very neat engine. Former property of the CNO&TP NS#7048 is awaiting its next assignment as the sunset shines on the consist.
I very clearly remember being wowed by this big bridge as a child flipping through train books in the early 90s. 20ish years later, I finally got a chance to visit it. Train dreams do come true!
Once the pride of the "Super Fleet," two battled worn former Santa Fe Warbonnets get to lead a top priority train once again at the point of the pride of the CNO&TP, train 229.
An NS manifest freight crosses the Burnside bridge over the Cumberland River near Somerset, Ky. heading north to Danville, Ky. This is part of the former Southern Railway's "Rathole" running south... (more)