My nephew came up to visit, so I took him on a day trip to Russell Kentucky. Having been there just this past April, I'd thought he like to see the action. Before we got there, we saw a freight heading into Portsmouth (OH), so we stopped and took a photo of it heading into town.
Behind us and to the right is where the NW station used to be. It is now a county jail/sheriff office.


The car hadn't had time to cool off after we parked at Russell, when here comes the first freight we saw of the day. In the background is coal train just heading out of the yard. It was really roaring as it strained to get going!

Then we watched a yard engine working the yard. As you can see from these two photos, these engines need a little paint job! After awhile, we decided to head on over to Kenova and try to catch a NS and CSX crossover here. While we weren't successful with that idea, we did see a freight roar over the bridge to Ohio. It came up so fast and quiet I didn't have time to set up my photo or hardly get my camera going! And here I thought trains slowed down when they cross over bridges. Not this one! Whosh!

We waited for some more action, but hunger drove us on. After lunch we were heading back to Russell when we pulled over to visit this station/museum. Unfortunately, it was not open, but I did get the obligatory photographs of the station at Catlettsburg.


Here is the sign for the trains. I don't think any are coming. . .numbers 36 and 39 are long gone.

So ends another day of train chasing. More on the next post.