Category: Thomas Bryan
CSX Q026 hit a chicken truck between Nortonville and Morton’s Gap, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision on 5/29/14. No on was hurt, even the chickens seemed ok. Remember, never play chicken with a train… -Thomas Bryan
Q029 passes a southbound grain train in the siding at South Robards, Ky on a snow covered December 11th. The grain train’s leader SD40-2 8099 was originally delivered to the L&N. – Thomas Bryan
Amtrak Heritage unit 66 leads Lincoln Service train 304 past Lenox Tower in Mitchell, Illinois. The train has just started its mid afternoon run to Chicago. 12/30/13 – Thomas Bryan
By Thomas Bryan
“Q648-We got less than 2 hours to work and 300 hundred gallons. T149-Just get some corn from the field, stuff it in the tank and maybe it’ll turn to ethanol.” -Two crews chatting at Henderson, Q648 would leave Henderson with less than an hour to work.
Northbound Train- “The wheels on the train go round and round, round and round, round and round, the wheels on the train go round and round all through the town.” -Entertaining themselves sitting in the siding at Robards.
By Thomas Bryan
Progress is painful. – CSX SA Dispatcher:
CSX SA Dispatcher answering over (Pause) Q647 wait for a signal and we’ll go South and play with the other trains (Pause) y’all play nice now (Pause) Did you say always, alright here we go, SA out. –CSX SA Dispatcher
Southbound train-Is it raining down there (Pause) Northbound train-Whew I’m soaked from head to toe (Pause) Southbound train-Aw, I forgot my rain gear. –South and North bound trains during a meet.
