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Corn, EMD's and Sun on the Louisville & Indiana (LIRC)
« on: September 01, 2015, 08:05:01 PM »
Back at the end of July, I made another trip North with Alex and Gage  to Hoosier land to  shoot the Louisville & Indiana (LIRC) with a couple of friends.   The CJ Turn (Columbus to Jeffersonville local) was called around daylight that day, and pklenty of work to do as it plodded along South. There would be a ballast train out working as well, plus a few CSX Northbounds to run later in the day.

Our First Encounter with the CJ was just North of Edinburgh at the huge Kokomo Grain facilty. The train would pic up a pair of engines and  fill out on a cut of grain loads for the NS at Louisville. After that stop was made, they also made a large pickup at the yard at Columbus (Indiana) before departing with 5 Geeps and decent sized train.  This was my second trip to the LIRC this year, and it was nice to have some SUN for a change.  With all of the work currently underway to upgrade the line (a former PRR property), the look and feel is bound to change by the end of the year.

TO keep this in context to the forum (although its pretty much anything goes here in the lounge)...  LIRC rosters several engines that started out life on the Southern.  The leader seen here (LIRC 2004) started out life as Southern 2723 back in 1969!   

Here are a few samples, and feel free to check out the entire set at this link  >>>>>  http://www.pbase.com/kd4jsl/lirc15

07/25/15 

LIRC 2004 looks sharp in the retro PRR style paint that the company is using now, as it switches at Kokomo Grain near Edinburgh, Indiana


"Ghost" A ribbon of 100lb jointed rail runs arrow straight through the corn and soybean fields of Indiana, carrying away the countless tons and hopes of last years harvest as a new crop grows. A headlight in the distance moves through the shimmering heat of another 95 degree day, the faint outline and color of a RR paint scheme once familiar to all who rode and shipped via the PRR on this little remarked mainline,yet the year is 2015..its just a modern day ghost of the Pennsy...a nod to the standard RR of the world. . The LIRC "CJ" turn, just South of Edinburgh, Indiana


Corn, Soybeans and EMD's as the CJ passes through the farmland South of Jonesville, Indiana


 The LIRC "CJ" Turn ambles across the White River bridge in Columbus, Indiana  . A sharp eye will note the PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD still visible on the side of the bridge, still proclaiming to all that care to look that this line was once part of the Standard RR of the World. While a 5 pack of EMD's makes a nice sight,I am thinking a PRR K4 with a passenger train wold have been even better!


 The CJ comes by the cement plant at Speed, Indiana  with sand flying from all 5 engines


Gage and Alex get the shot as the train crosses the old B&O diamond at JO Tower, Seymour, Indiana.



E.M. Bell, KD4JSL
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Re: Corn, EMD's and Sun on the Louisville & Indiana (LIRC)
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2015, 07:34:58 PM »
Great photos EM!
Dan

 

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