To Continue the winter railroading on the NS in Kentucky, here are 3 days of bad weather (Sleet, Snow, and then Arctic COLD!) on the CNO&TP here in Kentucky
February 14th and 15, I spent the weekend showing some friends of ours around. Its always great to show off your favorite piece of RR, and the NS did not disappoint. Besides a healthy of amount of trains, we also has some interesting weather to contend with...heavy sleet, freezing rain and then a little snow coupled with wind and temps in the single digits. This is the kind of weather that would keep most folks indoors, but I love it!
February 28th I was back out there again, taking advantage of some sun and the remains of a 16 inch snowfall from the day before. A busy day got even better with a solid set of EMD's on 167 plus a lot of other goodies.
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Saturday Feb 14th
A 12 hour late 251 (Southbound TripleCrown) comes through the dips at Gradison, KY
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251 passes a crewless grain train at "Southern States" on the North side of Somerset, KY
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NS 251 (Northbound Triplecrown) behind a spartan cab SD70 at Gradison, KY
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Southbound 229 crosses over 2 to 1 at Gradison in a sleet storm
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Northbound 116 comes under the new signals at Geneva, KY as the sleet tries to change to snow.
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Sunday 02/15/15
Southbound 197 climbs out of the Cumberland River valley at Tateville, KY. The temp was around 5 degrees this morning, but the sun was out!
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Train 167 works through the big cut at Wiborg, KY
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Saturday Feb 28th
Northbound 264 rolls up the valley between McKinney and Palm, KY
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Snow still clings to the knobs as train 275 heads out onto Single track at Southfork, KY
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167 tops over at Kings Mountain, KY behind a Groovy EMD Trio.....SD70Ace - SD90Mac - SD60M
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Herzog MPM (Mufti-purpose Machine) #195 tied down in the house track at McKinney, KY.
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Clean Rock is Happy Rock....One of the home-built Ballast cleaners spends the weekend tied down at Burnside, KY
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Good stuff.... I like ole 8843 and the "home built ballast cleaner... I think his brother cleaner is down toward our part of the country...Saw a kershaw machine tied down at Heiskell, TN, just south of Clinton yesterday....
leroy