Summerail Trip - 3

Hi, We spent the morning of August 3 waiting in LaGrange, KY for CSX to run trains down the street through town.

Finally a friend of Bills texted us to say W018-29, a rail train, was headed our way (above and below).

Since Bill's friend had reported that no other trains were "in the picture" we had lunch at a good deli in town, The Red Pepper, and headed for Jeffersonville to check out the port. While driving around we spotted a very pretty switch engine working a grain elevator. Bill got permission to photograph the locomotive. As I was walking to get into position Bill called out to me to stop and look at what was right in front of me. This hawk posed on a cement slab for about five minutes while we went about photographing it and the switch engine.

The locomotive we spotted was painted for the East Brookfield & Spencer, a Massachusetts short line (above and below). Since it is still listed on the Diesel Shop roster for this railroad it may be leased.

Our next stop was the Paducah and Louisville yard where we found this line up (above and two below).  The middle unit was the yard engine and would soon be going to work.

These two units saluted our veterans and our troops.

After some brief switching the yard engine did some local work, however, we were unable to gain access to the tracks where the crew stopped.

Then it was back across the river to New Albany, IN where, after a brief wait, an NS train with vehicle frames and stacks appeared  (above and three below). For some reason it pulled up just on the other side of the grade crossing in the photo above and sat for awhile.

Then it slowly moved down

and stopped again, blocking the pedestrian crossing in the photo above. On the plus side this allowed for a variety of angles. On the minus side our car was on the other side of the train.

Our final location of the day was the Louisville and Indiana yard in Columbus, IN. The yard was deserted and this was the only power present.

Thanks for looking.