Month: September 2011

CSX train derailment at Guthrie, Ky

September 16, 2011 Jim Pearson No Comments Chuck Hinrichs, News, Steve Miller
Photo by Chuck Hinrichs
Photo by Chuck Hinrichs

A CSX train derailed at Guthrie, Ky at 05:20 (CDT) on September 15, 2011.  The Lead loco is just south of Fairgrounds Rd with a broken  knuckle. The second loco is about 1/4 mile north upright at a 30 degree angle to the tracks. Between the Guthrie interlocking and the second loco (mostly on the west side of the tracks) is a large pile of orange Hamburg Sud 40′ containers with well cars sticking up at various angles.

Both tracks are blocked and it appears that the northbound signals may have been hit. To my UNTRAINED eye it appears that the train derailed in the interlocking or immediately south of it at the yard lead switch.  This will not be a good day to railfan the Henderson Sub.

The dispatcher was talking reroutes but no specifics. Last derailment the TOFC and hot freights went from Evansville down the ‘Texas’ to Louisville and then down the Mainline Sub to Nashville. So keep an eye out on the Mainline for TOFC traffic today and maybe tomorrow (Sept. 16, 2011). – Steve Miller

Sad news on Dennis Carnal

September 13, 2011 Jim Pearson No Comments Bill Thomas, Condolences, Dennis Carnal
We're sad to report that Dennis Carnal passed away this morning at Regional Medical Center here in Madisonville. Funeral arrangements and further details will be posted as they become available. We'll all miss the "Old Goat."
Photo by Bill Thomas

Greetings all.  It is with sadness that I pass word to you that Dennis J. Carnal passed away last night (Monday, September 12) around midnight, at Regional Medical Center, from what appears to have been an embolism brought on by unknown circumstances.  Dennis had been suffering from occasional seizures for a couple of weeks.  Keith Kittinger and I carried him home from my house Saturday.  He saw a Dr. at Multicare Monday, suffered another seizure while there, was admitted to RMC, then died that evening.

His cousin Peggy, Keith and I met with Reid Walters funeral home this morning.  Dennis will be cremated and buried in the Earlington Cemetery alongside his mother and father.

At Dennis’ request there will be no public service of remembrance.  I suggest as a chapter we collect a donation for one of Dennis’ passions.  Disaster Relief/Emergency Management or American Red Cross Disaster relief.  I’ll not make the next meeting due to a conflict at the Glema Mahr Center for the Arts.

I’d like to host a Thursday night get-together sometime soon at the house, build a roaring campfire (Dennis hated the fire pit) and roast some hotdogs while we give a memory roasting to the Old Goat!

Take care guys! – Bill Thomas