“Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning”. Well our battery did go out and we got a very good look at this former GM&O unit before road service showed up.
A little “oops”. Check out the rear axle of this unit sitting at the yard office. Late in the day it appeared they were preparing to re-rail it.
SB ethanol on the former IC.
Once it was confirmed that CN 3069 was leading the G884 SB grain, I took off to go catch it. I managed to make it to Fulton right after it made it and followed it all the way back to Memphis. He... (more)
U70291 rolling off the Bluford sub into Fulton.
CN grain train with BNSF power departing Fulton heading up the Cairo sub.
A 45 Year Old Veteran GP38-2 struggles with its PTC as it passes some farmland north of Fulton on the Fulton to P&L local. 6222 was built in 1975 as DT&I 622 before becoming GTW 6222 and still w... (more)
One of the last Wisconsin Central painted locomotives, WC 3018, works the former Illinois Central yard in Fulton under a setting sun and a blanket of snow.
Drone Shot of a south bound CN train CN #2451, UP #8393 entering Fulton yard as they pass the Paducah Local power EJ&E 703, WC #3018, IC #6204 and a yard job CN #5295, A lot of Fallen Flags paint ... (more)
I guessing but I’d expect these few units are the last ex-GM&O locomotives on the property.
Test car “Pacific Spirit” is in a push-pull between two units sitting on an old roundhouse lead resting for the night. The train departed early next morning southbound. A contractor was buil... (more)
A Southbound Grain train departs Fulton and passes one of the ex-LMS C40-8W lease units still wearing the Conrail blue paint.
ICG 6049 in the Gray and Orange scheme leads a GP30 still painted in GM&O colors (the 509), GP10 8221 and GP40 3062 through the yard at Fulton.
My first expedition to Fulton.