Built for Rock Island and displaying the early-style carbody this classic old GE is preparing to join seven or so of its stablemates in taking the daily coal train across the bucolic countryside t... (more)

Refugee from the Rock Island, this early-style version of the U28B exhibits a common U-boat characteristiic I have never seen modelled. Notice the leaves all over the radiator screens?

A paint job to warm the cockles of a bean counter's heart. This ex-P&LE unit had apparently not even gotten the yellow doors before being whisked of to this great little rural coal hauler.

Great place for old GEs to work in semi-retirement. It has to be fall, just look at that radiator screen.

A U28 of obvious P&LE heritage rests at Paris.

Seven B36-7s emerge from a tree tunnel between Millersburg and Paris with empties for CSX.

TTI VO-1000 #9 in the deadline at Paris, KY || April 1987

A northbound TTI coal train prepares to depart Paris, headquarters and southern terminus of the unique little shortline. Moments later the 107 car train will slowly ease over the scale, weighing o... (more)

A southbound CSX unit grain train was passing the former L&N station at Paris, KY on Oct. 26, 1990 with three C40-8s.

Paris, Kentucky - this town must have had the most U Boats per capita in the country!

One of the more unusual lineups I've photographed - a VO 1000, a caboose, and a slug.

Transkentucky Transportation GP12 #1072, built by Alco in 1954 as an RS3 for Missouri Pacific, later converted to EMD prime mover before being sold to TTI

Transkentucky Transportation U28B #244 was built for Rock Island in 1966 and acquired by TTI in 1981

TTI 5793 and two other vintage U36Bs shove on the rear of a TTI coal train bound for Maysville, KY, passing the classic Bourbon Drive In. This shot sums up why I pursue almost exclusively shortli... (more)