A pair of Transkentucky Transportation Railroad B36-7's sit quietly at the railroad's shops in Paris, Kentucky. The crew will arrive shortly and get the two locomotives started up in prep for a da... (more)
Back in 2017 I stopped by the TTI to see what there was to see. Pretty sad to see all the neat old B36-7's and U36B's that were waiting for unknown fate or business. This stuff above was on the de... (more)
PAL 4121 ex. UP same number waits in Paducah and Louisville's yard for a crew.
A loaded TTI coal train chugs its way towards Maysville
A quartet of TTI B36-7's chug through the rolling farmland of Kentucky with an empty stone train
PAL 4120 has returned to home rails at Louisville after a visit to the CSX paint shop in Huntington, WV. When the unit was interchanged to CSX during May 2024 it wore UP yellow with wings blacked ... (more)
Four TTI B36-7's bring a coal train along the banks of the Ohio River
A trio of TTI GE locomotives are headed back to Paris after rearranging cars in storage on its mainline between Paris and Carlisle. This line once hauled coal to a transloading facility along the ... (more)
Decorated for in state rival Kentucky and Louisville Universities, a pair of specially painted GP-38-2 units power a charter train.
In the early days locomotives would appear lettered, and in this case painted, in PAL colors, only to last a short time. This nice looking ex-TASD unit had friction bearings, anachronistic even i... (more)
Paducah and Louisville train tied down for the weekend.
Paducah and Louisville #1998.
Paducah and Louisville #2123.
Working at the south end of the yard with ex-CSXT 704 in the lead. Rather shrill sounding chimes on this one.
A pair of Paducah & Louisville "GP38-2"s await their next assignment at the railroad's yard in Louisville. Built in October 1984 as GP40-2s (3808 was Cotton Belt 7262, 3805 was Cotton B... (more)