"Keith is getting some practice time for retiring by watering the steamer on the Black Hills Central at Hill City, South Dakota. The way Keith drives, he has no problem being back to work for CSX on Monday mornings." Submitted by Bill Grady, Louisville, KY.
I was catching up on my railfan surfing tonight and ran across a post on the P&L forum that indicated that Dennis Carnal had passed away. I quickly pulled up the West KY NRHS website and saw the information about his death in the newsletters.
I first met Dennis though my quest to complete my collection of L&N Employee magazines. He had posted that he had some for sale and I contacted him and found out that he had several that I needed and I had extras that he needed so we arranged a trade. Dennis and I arranged to meet at his house on one of my visits to Henderson and traded magazines, traded stories, and discussed the Cardinals vs the Reds.
My primary RR interest is in the tunnels [I'll spare you the long story why] and Dennis and I hooked up on a couple of different trips over the next couple of years to explore tunnels and sites. I had permission from the owner of the land where the original tunnel west of Dawson Springs is located to hike in and check it out and Dennis went with me. On another trip, he hooked me up with one of his friends from Greenville who knew about the buried tunnel on the original O & N alignment near Cleaton. That day we also checked out the daylighted IC tunnel sites on the P&L at Echols, Rosine, Black Rock, and near Stephensburg-that was a fun day.
Enough rambling, I just thought I’d express my condolences to your group on his loss. He was very gracious to me and willing to share any information that he could. He also kept trying to get me to come to one of your meetings, but I was never down on a Monday that you were meeting.
Sincerely,
Butch Adkins, Lexington KY
Hello, I thought that you might want to put a link up to this page http://www.railroadkeys.com/history/EHNRR.html If anyone has other items that they want to put pictures of on the page that would be great. I would love to get some photos of the early lines to add if anyone has one. Thanks, Michael Orange.
FYI: Website and Facebook page for Ozarks Model RR Association. Thanks to Greg Sullivan for Website update and photos for Open House. New Website is: omraspringfield.org Greg took the photos and created the FB page. Good work, Greg. Go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ozarks-Model-Railroad-Association/337691496249198?sk=wall. Thanks to Greg for your good work. Rex Easterly.
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad freight train makes it’s way Eastbound through the Tehachapi Loop East of Bakersfield, California. – Video by Jim Pearson
This is a video I shot on my September vacation to California and back. It’s in the Cajon Pass on the Union Pacific track that passes through Morman Rocks, East of San Bernardino, Ca. – Video by Jim Pearson
Here's a shot Scott Wartchow (friend of chapter member Fred Ripley) took of east-bound "Franklin Industrial Minerals" train on former Tennessee Central trestle east of Crossville, TN. A very lucky catch! (Photo by Scott Wartchow)
Well, after 4 years, I finally caught this guy on the move leaving Alcoa/Vectren. He normally doesnt leave til 11:00-12:00 as I can hear it, although faint, from my house, and doesnt return til 2:30-3:00am. Thing is I went down to where it normally sits off Eble/Sharon Rd. and there was another one sitting on the main and not the siding. He was all lit up and ready to move too. Waited for a bit but he didn’t move, so I left. Hope you don’t get motion sick, took the video on my phone 
Thought this would be neat to share with the group as its not common for anything to move on this set of track anymore. I can only assume they started using rail to haul the coal in back in 07-08 due to high cost of fuel and therefore using trucks to bring it in. (Video by Matt Gentry)
Jim Pearson gave me a heads up and I caught this train at South Latham. It's G150, a southbound grain train with some interesting power - CP 9767 (GE AC4400CW) on the point with IC&E 6410 (SD40-2) trailing. (Photo by Chuck Hinrichs)
Bill Heaton took this photo of CSX Snap Track loaded in gons, ready for action at Atkinson Yard, Madisonville, KY. This would be a simple, but effective modeling project in any scale. (Photo by Bill Heaton)
Ricky Bivins made this telephoto lens shot looking south towards Morton’s Gap, KY, on the CSX Henderson Subdivision. I always marvel at how the changes in grade and rail irregularities are exaggerated with a long lens. (Photo by Ricky Bivins)
Submitted by James Futrell
These photos were at a train derailment in Fulton, Ky. The derailment (we know now) started at a broken rail the car derailed and took out some MOW equipment stored on an adjoining track. As the car continued under the bridge it took out several switches and rail before coming to a stop south of the bridge. In the preceding morning pictures you can see a group in the lower left corner of one shot assessing the situation before cleanup began. I’m told that the north bound Amtrak had just cleared this track before train 194 used it going south and derailed. The amount of work performed between 8 AM and noon is nothing short of amazing. It looks like chaos but everyone has probably done this many times before and hit the ground running. The 5 or 6 train backlog was gone by noon.
Rex Easterly sent in a few photos of his new garden railroad in Springfield, MO. A Missouri Pacific passenger train crosses the Ron Stubblefield Memorial Bridge (these bridges formerly resided on Ron’s garden railroad in Marion, KY). Rex hopes to have the water feature finished this spring. I smell a road trip!
