On our recent road trip to Kentucky, besides the visit to KRM there were some miscellaneous railfan opportunities.
Paducah, of course, is famous as the home of the principal shops of the Illinois Central. I tried taking some pictures of the remaining buildings, but the whole shop complex is so huge you can't really get a good idea of it.
Then we went to Mammoth Cave. We've seen the locomotive and car on display before.
They have Van Dorn couplers, another one of our favorite subjects.
Parts of the ROW of the Mammoth Cave Railroad are now a bicycle and foot path, much straighter and flatter....
than most of the paths we found on this trip:
And they had this not-very-good picture of people using the tracks for walking. I suppose those steam dummies could hardly sneak up on you.
And we went to Cumberland Falls, which is near Corbin. Corbin was a division point on the L&N with a large yard and shops, and it has a locomotive and caboose on display. The 2132 must be of the same series as the 2152 that we saw at KRM.
The main depot:
They are not kidding:
And then they have a Southern car on a short section of track.
After that, in a restaurant across the street we had the "L&N Club Sandwich" which was quite good. So what's not to like about Kentucky? (As long as you don't sit on an antique rail cart!)
My father was from Kentucky; I visited there frequently when I was a kid. I played on that Mammoth Cave Railroad when we toured the cave.
ReplyDeleteTed Miles, IRM Member