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La rivière Nièvre à Nevers (Nièvre, France). Mars 2022
Rolleiflex 2.8f - Fuji Provia 100
J'ai été interviewé par Claire-Hélène Delouvée (CAUE 58) sur RCF au sujet de mon travail au long cours sur la rivière Nièvre : rcf.fr/actualite/architecture-et-cadre-de-vie?episode=225732
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A southbound (mty) L&N Lynch Turn diverges from the "K&V Railroad" at Baxter, Ky. on April 7, 1974. The PC SD45s were pooled for a time on these trains, that ferried high grade met coal from US Steel's huge mine at Lynch to steel mills at Gary, Indiana. Those orange 100-ton hoppers were regulars on this run for many years.
Southern's Appalachia Division "East Local" is in the siding at Gate City, Va. on January 21, 1970 to meet train No. 88 behind SD35 No. 3055. The coal train is a "radio" Yuma Turn with mid-train remotes. The white number boards on 3055 identify the unit as a control unit for such movements. This was an early iteration of what is now commonly known as distributed power.
At 8:50 AM on August 14, 2020, the parade of southbounds just leaving Cincinnati, and northbounds arriving from Chattanooga and Louisville after their nocturnal travels over the CNO&TP is unfolding. A former Conrail C40-8CW (or D8-40CW in NS “speak”) leads a stack train off the impressive through truss double-tracked bridge over the Ohio River connecting Cincinnati with Ludlow, Ky. Even though CUT was within sight of this spot, Southern once maintained a depot to the right for local passenger service. In 1972 I was working for Southern and spent a month between Ludlow and Erlanger (the top of the hill) while new welded rail was laid, followed by ties and surfacing. By the time the seven miles of work was completed, I was on firsthand terms with every inch of the route.
The Interstate First Hill crew was backing from Dorchester Junction, Va. to the Red River Coal loadout in Dorchester with 45 empty Silverside gons on March 3, 1985. The old Dorchester Branch would soon be abandoned, with the wooden trestle and the Business US 23 bridge replaced by a fill. The track in the foreground is the main between Andover and Norton. Until the mid-30s, the at-grade crossing was protected by an interlocking tower in the lower left foreground. Under NS, this spot was later identified as "DNOR" as a block location.
October 21, 2010: This is a fine fall color view from the twin bridges of US 23 at Harvey, Va. The NS eastbound coal train is pushing against the dynamic braking of the head end power on the 1.7 percent descending grade. A CSX westbound is waiting in the siding at Jasper about two miles away.
CSX Q690 was passing the former Clinchfield Railroad passenger station in Kingsport, Tenn. on November 16, 1991. This through freight was usually used to ferry excess motive power back north to bring more coal tonnage southbound.
On July 29, 2015, a westbound (railroad direction) CSX pusher set is emerging from the north (compass direction) end of Natural Tunnel, on the NS Appalachia District. When the South Atlantic & Ohio Railroad elected to use Natural Tunnel as a passage through Purchase Ridge, it was obliged to blast out this short man-made bore through a thick rib of rock inside. Stock Creek (to the right) passes through a lower and smaller opening to get to the other side. The roof of the tunnel is a riot of color from 125 years of locomotive exhaust, various colors of rock strata, and all kinds of algae growth. CSX has used this route between Big Stone Gap, VA and Frisco, TN since 1985.
The second shot is an eastbound Southern Yuma Turn, leaving town with three units and no mid-trains. Commerical coal loads had probably accumulated in Andover to the point a crew needed to be called to help clean out the small yard to make way for more inbound coal. The date was August 20, 1984.
Amtrak No. 5, the westbound "California Zephyr," rolls through East Portal, Colorado on May 21, 1987. The longer train (compared to today) dates this scene to the time when the Amtrak version of the "CZ" carried through cars for the "Pioneer" to the Northwest, and the "Desert Wind" to LA. Those trains came off in 1997. The third car is an ex-Santa Fe hi-level, but the other cars behind it are Superliners (except a Rio Grande business car on the rear). Just several yards ahead is the portal for the 6.2-mile Moffat Tunnel that replaced the insane stretch of railroad with four percent grades over the top of Rollins Pass in 1928. A portion of the grade leading to the "Giant's Ladder" of the long-abandoned line can be seen rising above the rear third of the train.
I photographed these two roll-over victims at the north end of Loyall (KY) yard in August 1963. Records indicate the two units (Alco RS-3s 250 and 246) were both retired and later scrapped (or possibly used as trade-in credit on new units) on September 24, 1963. I can't recall for certain, but I think they were derailed near Lynch, rolling over into the creek (the Poor Fork Branch of the Cumberland River). They would be pulled to Corbin, then routed via the Lebanon Branch to South Louisville Shops for disposition. I'm sure they were evaluated for possible rebuilding, but obviously the verdict was no.