A Norfolk Southern ballast train heads south at Keno, Kentucky, on the famous former Southern Railway “Rathole” line between Cincinnati and Chattanooga. The short train even has a caboose on this humid and hot May 16, 1994, day.
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A northbound Norfolk Southern train crosses the Cumberland River at Burnside, Kentucky, on a hot and hazy August 23, 1992. On the point is NS No. 8596 which is a GE C39-8; and yes, the locomotive is operating facing forward, Norfolk Southern style!
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A Louisville and Nashville GE U23B leads a coal train towards Winchester after meeting an eastbound at Cressy, Kentucky, in December 1983. The L&N was then part of Family Lines and merging into Seaboard System. This line that heads east out of Winchester is a coal gathering branch to the Hazard area.
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CSX stack train Q133 is about to enter the street running trackage through La Grange, Kentucky, on the afternoon of August 10, 2012. “Naked brown guy” rides his bike precariously close to the clearance line, as the “dumb family” crosses the tracks, afraid to wait a few minutes for the train to cross. Dad has already made it (he’s by the stop sign, woman and children first—NOT) as mom and little kid jog across.
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CSX stack train Q133 gets closer as “naked brown guy” on a bike decides to cross over in front of the train, in La Grange, Kentucky, on August 10, 2012.
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