Went south to visit my son, daughter-in-law and grandson in Louisville this weekend and my son and I went off to visit the local CSX yard. Osborn yard is very large and as we found out, hard to see. There are a lot of trees or buildings between you and the tracks. Unlike the Portsmouth yard in Portsmouth, there is no convenient parking lot near the throat of the yard.
But if you drive around for awhile, you can see lots of interesting things. And a journey down this little side street, tucked away between to buildings produced some photo ops!
In the first photo, we had just pulled onto the street and here comes a very slow moving freight. Then right behind the first freight was a smaller one. I have never seen two trains moving so close together.
After taking photos of the "train tag" team, we went across to the other side of the tracks (via a road way of course) and caught another two more leaving the yard!
I got a few more shots before my camera's batteries started to go and the rain started to come again, so off we went, back towards home. But along the way I caught sight of this old, beat up B&O gondola. The photo is back lit, so it is hard to see the faded emblem, but it is there! On the left of the car. On the right is the Chessie symbol. That was the last photo, as the batteries finally quit and with the rain, this one was taken from the car window. Not the best photo, but then the day wasn't the best day for photos. You take what you can have. It still was a fun afternoon!