May 14, 2017 – Paducah and Louisville locomotives “Salute to our Troops” (2127) and “Salute to our Veterans” (2129) led the local Sunday as it did interchange work with CSX at Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, Ky.
May 13, 2017 – A eerie quiet fell in amongst all these steel horses as they sat at the north end of the Norfolk Southern yard at Princeton, Indiana as the last light of dusk fell on National Train Day. I drove from Piqua, Ohio to Princeton, Indiana on this day looking for trains to catch and I saw three moving along the way, all in the distance. That’s the way it goes sometimes! I did catch another shot I’ll post later of a CSX coal train in the loop at Alliance Coal.
May 12, 2017 – Norfolk Southern Heritage Unit 1071, “Jersey Central Lines,” brings up the tail end of 71T as it finishes up loading it’s coal train at Alliance Coal in Princeton, Indiana.
May 11, 2017 – CSX E013-11 pulls from the siding at the north end of Trenton, Ky, with Citirail 1521 leading, after waiting for southbound CSX Q515 to pass. From here it made another 8 miles or so before going into emergency due to a broken knuckle on one of the coal cars at middle Casky in Hopkinsville, Ky. With Casky yard now being closed it took awhile to get someone trackside to help the conductor with the repair before continuing it’s way north on the Henderson Subdivision.