I'm looking for photos of the long-gone "Little Cardinal" of the Frankfort & Cincinnati. The car is property of the Kentucky Railway Museum. I'm modelling the...
The Corman dinner train is scheduled to depart Lexington on Thursday morning at 0800 and should be by HK Tower around 1100 on its return to Bardstown. ...
It is the junction of CSX's LCL Sub and Corman's line to Lexington just east of Louisville at Anchorage. Virgil Clausen Versailles, Indiana ... [Non-text...
I'm in the process of doing preliminary research on a possible future layout based on the CSX Corbin Division somewhere between Paris and Corbin. I've done a...
Mike, I haven't been to the KRM in a while, but last time I was there, the motorcar had been shipped off for restoration. The book "Forty Miles, Forty Bridges"...
Lon: Thanks for the info. I have the book "Forty Miles: Forty Bridges" - in fact, Ken Hixson refers to my book "The Best School I Ever Attended" in it. I...
If I remember right, the Big Cardinal was sold to the Cuban Copper Company. It was repainted in the colors and markings of the new owner before it left ...
#1 was overhauled and repainted by the F&C when they gave it to KRM. It ran to KRM's River Road site under its own power. Several floods at the River Road...
CSX F40PH 9992 and office car "Indiana" are currently operating over the LCL Subdivison from Louisville to Cincinnati this evening as train P913-07. It was...
I was passing though Mayfield today and saw a Metra locomotive on the P&L with 2 P&L engines. Did they acquire engines from Metra? bj [Non-text portions of...
That Metra engine passed through Louisville several days ago. I think it's in there for repair at VMV. Mike Harpe ... -- Please note my new email address: ...
... According to a Jan. 23 post on the LocoNotes mailing list Metra F40 METX 110 was headed from Chicago for work at the Progress Rail facility in Mayfield. It...
progress rail in Mayfield is supposed to be rebuilding 2 Metra locomotives. 102 & 100 should be on property with 102 scheduled to leave soon (or could that be...
I wasn't close enough to see the number (on the parkway) but it was heading into Mayfield. Where is progress rail? From: KentuckyRailfan@yahoogroups.com ...
Now that the KTP is back at work, are they shipping loaded autoracks out or is everything still going by truck? If they are, I assume the train list is back to...
... sofar we are still shipping by truck. A portion of our employee parking lot is still blocked off for finished unit storage so I do not anticipate anything...
... locomotives. ... could ... helpful. ... It should be Metra #102 which is scheduled to depart Mayfield soon. It has been down there since early July 2008,...
The mile post west of Frankfort is a "W" -- Why? -- does the "W" signify any thing -- as a mater of fact can anyone explain all of the mile marker headings...
W most likely indicates to the engineer to blow the horn for the next road crossing. ... From: cmabogart@... <cmabogart@...> Subject: [KY Railfan] MILE...
Does anyone have or know where I could find photos of the following Kentucky depots == JETT == DUCKERS == PAYNES DEPOT == RENICK == AUSTERLITZ == ESCONDIDA...
Maybe it is a Whistle Post. ... From: cmabogart@... To: kentuckyrailfan@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 2:25 pm Subject: [KY Railfan] MILE POST...
If it's a lone "W" with no number that's not a milepost, that tells the engineer to blow the whistle. Sometimes you'll see another sign with bars and dots to...
This is probably of greatest interest to railfans in far western Kentucky. It will bring more trains to the ex-IC line from Fulton south to Jackson, TN! ...
I believe that the orginal poster is talking about a milepost with W such as W143 or 143W. As for why it's W I can only think "west" but, it may mean nothing....
Could it be that CSX or Chessie System used alpha designators for various lines in the system: thus the Monon sub was "Q" and the Old Road was "W"? ... From:...
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