Ran into some interesting rolling stock in Summerville, GA yesterday. Old coaches parked at the depot, as well as old MOW cars parked on abandoned tracks south...
Thanks to all who replied. Talking to ya'll is like looking in the back of the book. I've never seen the "gon-zilla" loader on a steam excursion but would have...
All, With a nice day on hand and some of that elusive spare time handy, decided to venture east from Lexington towards Mt. Sterling to seek out traces of the...
Great shots. The last time I was up around Olive Hill, there was C&O bridge still standing, looked like it was a private road now. And what looked like the...
Yes they are running a regular schedule of manifest trains. ... From: "Donna" <ladym_1958@...> To: <KentuckyRailfan@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, July...
NS724, normally an ordinary coal train from VA to power plants in west central GA. Except today she was headed up by SOO power! Caught her in late afternoon ...
In a message dated 7/2/2005 9:02:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, TJM6515@... writes: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/editPicture.aspx?id=150491 Hi, Thanks...
Im not sure about Olive Hill, I only went as far east as Mt. Sterling, though if I can find the spare time this week I was planning on venturing east of Mt....
A group of us followed the line last fall, we drove down the right of way on the section that is now a jeep road (actually you could take a regular car over...
Anybody know anything about this, such as price or how to order? David Morse _Ndavmorse@..._ (mailto:Ndavmorse@...) On the Old Road Local man's tome...
On Sunday, NS 283 came East from Louisville with a brand new UP SD70ACe, which is the first time one of these new EMD's has been through these parts...at least...
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I am going to spend the next few days in London KY. Where should I go for railfanning? Should I expect to see anything worth noting? Anything else in the...
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George, there is a lot more going on in Corbin, than London. Also if you can find your way west on KY 80 over toward Somerset you can catch some NS action. Ed...
George, I would agree, lots more action going on down in Corbin than in London. Its only about a 20 minute drive down to the yards. Somerset and surrounding...
Hi, I can remember a road that paralleled the right of way but I do not remember exactly where. All I know it was somewhere between Ashland and Louisville. It...
There was a road between Olive Hill and Morehead that closely followed the track. Going west you turned left by the bulk plant at Olive Hill and crossed the ...
I got looking on my maps and on the internet, planning my next possible trip. From Mt. Sterling East US 60 follows the tracks for a while, them a backroad...
US 60 is an excellent route to travel up the old roadbed. There are several interesting places where the old roadbed can be seen. In Olive hill the old ...
The empty Corman Alcan train just came through Frankfort at 2:00 pm- interesting car- the RJC-911, off the dinner train. I'm assuming the car will be used for...
Group: I met with Ken Hixson of Lexington last night: the topic of our discussion was a possible book covering the long-gone Frankfort & Cincinnati. Ken has...
EVERYBODY: About 4:00 this morning EDT, three London subway stations and one doubledecker bus were bombed, nearly simultaneously. About 40 were killed outright...
At Olympia, KY the line crosses. If you head east at the crossing a county road follows the right of way for at least 2 or 3 miles. It stops at a former ...