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Title: K&IT classic
Post by: Kentucky & Indiana Terminal RR on March 01, 2012, 04:28:41 PM
Here is a link to that shot Lwjabo, this is about the best I can do from my phone. It's taken in our oak st yard (PAL) , I have an even better one if I can ever get it scanned I'll post it too. http://jreb.org/Image/KIT60_LouKY_OakStYd_K.jpg
Title: Re: K&IT classic
Post by: Ponce de Leon on March 03, 2012, 01:14:01 PM
I regret not photographing more of those lovely K&IT engines. Here's a grab shot (albeit black and white) at Youngtown Yard in 1965:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=119317&nseq=1
Title: Re: K&IT classic
Post by: lwjabo on March 03, 2012, 04:11:55 PM
A Fairbanks Morris. I kind of figured it was. They were all gone around Atlanta before I hired in 1971. The last one the story goes vibrated extremely hard when sitting still. Anyway every night this crew took there engine to Inman from East Point. This night with no cars. They were always blocked at Spring often for hours. So they picked out a place they always ate at. That night no difference. They tie up the brake on the engine and leave it on the main line and go eat. When they got back it was gone. It vibrated so hard it knocked off the handbrake and engine brake and rolled away. It was lined into Terminal station and was a empty track where it derailed. The crew could not talk there way out of it and were at least for the Engineer got 6 months. I worked with the engineer on one of his first trips back at Forrestville about Christmas of 1971. He was very nervous and we got on the ground several times on the old city yard at Rome. It was a short night and I noted the engineer was sweating hard and collapsed when he got in his car. I was going over to ask if he was OK when another member of the crew said don't. The tracks in city yard were very bad and nothing ever came of the derailments. We simply moved boards around and rerailed our self. That is the way it was done at the time.
Title: Re: K&IT classic
Post by: Kentucky & Indiana Terminal RR on March 14, 2012, 01:22:23 AM
My latest Jewel, a quartet of Fairbanks switchers in the more colorful of the two schemes they wore.
Title: Re: K&IT classic
Post by: Kentucky & Indiana Terminal RR on March 14, 2012, 04:24:03 AM
Just my opinion but that paint scheme would be a great one on a modern engine.
Title: Re: K&IT classic
Post by: Kentucky & Indiana Terminal RR on March 18, 2012, 06:26:58 PM
One more...
Title: Re: K&IT classic
Post by: Ponce de Leon on March 18, 2012, 11:16:46 PM
That's one of the K&IT's Baldwins.
Title: Re: K&IT classic
Post by: Kentucky & Indiana Terminal RR on March 19, 2012, 12:24:51 AM
Yes it is, quite possibly the best looking paint scheme ever put on a switcher in my opinion.
Title: Re: K&IT classic
Post by: Kentucky & Indiana Terminal RR on December 28, 2012, 07:21:23 PM
Here's a string of real beauties, who couldn't love a Fairbanks?
Title: Re: K&IT classic
Post by: Kentucky & Indiana Terminal RR on December 28, 2012, 07:24:03 PM
Maybe my favorite ever
Title: Re: K&IT classic
Post by: Ponce de Leon on December 28, 2012, 11:20:04 PM
Quote from: Kentucky & Indiana Terminal RR on December 28, 2012, 07:24:03 PM
Maybe my favorite ever

I don't think I would disagree.
Title: Re: K&IT classic
Post by: E.M. Bell on December 29, 2012, 05:23:08 PM
The old cars and Morton salt billboard MAKE that last shot...Love it!
Title: Re: K&IT classic
Post by: Kentucky & Indiana Terminal RR on February 20, 2013, 04:45:21 PM
Here's another one, a Fairbanks and the 4501
Title: Re: K&IT classic
Post by: Trainman24210 on February 20, 2013, 07:58:49 PM
With the success of the Heritage units one would think NS would be eager to add some.  We need K&IT, A&EC a real S&A and Georgia & Florida. Uurrah!