Got back from Kauai on Monday. Went on the Kauai Plantation Railway.....which is really just a tourist trap, but fun nonetheless. And it's the home of the Koloa Rum Co. Yum! Ironically, the passenger cars are built on flatcars that originated on Oahu. They were sold and sent to Alaska, then sold to the gentleman that decided he wanted a railroad on his plantation on Kauai. 60 years later, and they're almost where they started their life!
PAL 2012 leading the Mill Creek empty coal train south through Stephensburg, KY 8-9-15 by NSFan14 posted Aug 9, 2015 at 10:57 PM PAL 2012 leading the Mill Creek empty coal south through Black Rock, KY 8-9-15 by NSFan14 posted Aug 9, 2015 at 10:57 PM
Alex- Nice photos! Do you know where this train originates? I'm guessing a mine out in or around the Powder River coal fields?
Never seen anything like that train in this era. The cars kinda look like the Talgo trains which had a brief appearance on U.S. roads in the '60s (?)
Before the "Cabbage" was added to the end there was the Fins sticking up like on a late 50's Cadillac or like the "Batmobile" so the trains got the Battrain handle
Still it is a bit difficult to get used to seeing that styling. So radically different from Amtrak and even what went before that era.
Boxcab, The train originates at LG&E in Louisville, KY. But it goes to Madisonville, KY to a mine to get loaded. The PAL has numerous of coal mines located on their railroad. They also get alot of NS coal trains they run and gets sent back to Louisville and NS takes them to Brown, KY to a big power plant located just of the CNO&TP
Thanks, Alex. I guess we don't get enough news of the PAL and others in that region, to understand what's happening.
Nice shots to see. I remember the older PAL scheme well from many days out and about around the Radcliff and Elizabethtown areas in Kentucky, but the new scheme (and new power) are great to see.
