88E489 - Looking southwest from
pedestrian walkway over train tracks, with CSX locomotives,
University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, May 1988
The tracks run along the east side of Belknap campus
(see map) between Floyd and Brook Streets. The Houchens Building is in the right foreground. The white-roofed building is the
Crawford Gym which opened in 1964 and was demolished in 2016 to make way for the Belknap Academic Building.
CSX Transportation was created in the 1980s from the merger of the
Chessie System and the
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (aka Family Lines) which already owned the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad. There are 6 locomotives in the photo, the first 5 of which are painted in Chessie or Seaboard colors, while the last one has "CSX" painted on it.
The lead locomotive is
Seaboard System 8523 (an
EMD SD50).
Next is
Chessie System 4259 (an
EMD GP40-2).
Next is Chessie System 5566 (?).
