Making Lemonade
RJ Corman’s sand train until recently was a nocturnal operation between a sand loading terminal along the Ohio River northeast of downtown Louisville and a Nugent Sand facility adjacent to RJ Corman’s shops in Lexington, Kentucky. They’ve shifted to a daytime schedule now with the intent of making a turn from Louisville to Lexington and back starting pre-dawn in the morning. However, they haven’t made the full round trip a few times recently and on this Monday they started with the empty train in Lexington. After making the trip across the old road and onto CSX at HK Tower CP and a short run south they access their branch to the terminal down by the river.
First they cross the South Fork Beargrass Creek and curve through the JBS Foods plant and then transit a short stretch of street running in Louisville’s historic Butchertown district. The Butchertown district itself is no longer Louisville’s 1800 meatpacking center, but has experienced a renaissance of redevelopment and contains an eclectic mix of businesses. In this view they’re rolling by the freshened up storefronts along the alley between Story Ave. & E Washington St.
It’s my understanding that RJ Corman has a contract to do maintenance work on some ex-Susquehanna SD60’s now owned by GMTX and is testing them on their trains out of Lexington pending their own SD70’s going into service. In addition to GMTX 9014 & 9059 a RJC Geep 3806 is also along for the ride ahead of the empty sand cars.
At the top of the photo is the logo for “Lemonade PR” which seemed appropriate enough since this shot made lemonade for me out of what started as a lemon of a day. Louisville, KY 2/20/2023
Making Lemonade
RJ Corman’s sand train until recently was a nocturnal operation between a sand loading terminal along the Ohio River northeast of downtown Louisville and a Nugent Sand facility adjacent to RJ Corman’s shops in Lexington, Kentucky. They’ve shifted to a daytime schedule now with the intent of making a turn from Louisville to Lexington and back starting pre-dawn in the morning. However, they haven’t made the full round trip a few times recently and on this Monday they started with the empty train in Lexington. After making the trip across the old road and onto CSX at HK Tower CP and a short run south they access their branch to the terminal down by the river.
First they cross the South Fork Beargrass Creek and curve through the JBS Foods plant and then transit a short stretch of street running in Louisville’s historic Butchertown district. The Butchertown district itself is no longer Louisville’s 1800 meatpacking center, but has experienced a renaissance of redevelopment and contains an eclectic mix of businesses. In this view they’re rolling by the freshened up storefronts along the alley between Story Ave. & E Washington St.
It’s my understanding that RJ Corman has a contract to do maintenance work on some ex-Susquehanna SD60’s now owned by GMTX and is testing them on their trains out of Lexington pending their own SD70’s going into service. In addition to GMTX 9014 & 9059 a RJC Geep 3806 is also along for the ride ahead of the empty sand cars.
At the top of the photo is the logo for “Lemonade PR” which seemed appropriate enough since this shot made lemonade for me out of what started as a lemon of a day. Louisville, KY 2/20/2023