Eastern Railroad Discussion > I was born in a small town

So the song goes. CSX sent M687 south today over the Louisville & Indiana with their Clinchfield heritage unit out front. Seymour Indiana is the home town for John Mellencamp and he is proudly represented on a building as M687 heads south. Next he passes through Memphis Indiana and finally Ashland Park in Clarksville as is he approaches the Ohio River to enter Louisville Kentucky. Thanks for looking. Joe Vittitoe

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Well-crafted images.
Bob

Nice pictures.  I hope CSX uses Clinchfield heritage as lead engine when they reopen the rebuilt Clinchfield.

Great photos! 

When ever I hear that song I always go back in my mind to the image of the conductor highballing the train on the platform of a Conrail cabin at the end of the video - railroading in the US midwest as it was meant to be! - Whoops, that was Little Pink Houses!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/13/25 18:17 by RMD23.

three very nice shots
Mark Mautner

Neat stuff!

Lots of domestic IM on that Avon-Louisville/Osborn manifest.

Nice picture with the mural in the background. My wife and I happened to be in town when they were finishing it several years ago.

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Going to be there in a few weeks. Does anyone have the radio channel numbers for Seymour and possible train count? Thanks!

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AAR 51 is the LIRC dispatcher. Not sure what CSX uses on the old B&O. Typically CSX M688/687 would be the only day time N/S trains through town.
I've seen M688 leave Louisville north at 6AM and also noon. M687 will ususally show up in Louisville around noon. If that's the case there might be a meet at Underwood which is just south of Scottsburg. Now CSX will send 3-4 northbounds during the day and get on the old B&O to head east for Cincinnati. There is a local CSX job up there but I'm not sure of when it works. Sometimes the LIRC will send something through town but only when CSX is out tof the way. Typically its noctunal. Then sometimes you might get a potash train running north or south. Good luck.
 

srman Wrote:
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> AAR 51 is the LIRC dispatcher. Not sure what CSX
> uses on the old B&O. Typically CSX M688/687 would
> be the only day time N/S trains through town.
> I've seen M688 leave Louisville north at 6AM and
> also noon. M687 will ususally show up in
> Louisville around noon. If that's the case there
> might be a meet at Underwood which is just south
> of Scottsburg. Now CSX will send 3-4 northbounds
> during the day and get on the old B&O to head east
> for Cincinnati. There is a local CSX job up there
> but I'm not sure of when it works. Sometimes the
> LIRC will send something through town but only
> when CSX is out tof the way. Typically its
> noctunal. Then sometimes you might get a potash
> train running north or south. Good luck.
>  

You also get occasional NS powered grain trains.  And the rare military trains.  

Excellent shots!

Nice.  Do  you  know   where  this  train   began the  journey??

M687 is a daily train between Avon Yard Indianapolis to Osborn Yard Louisville Ky. 

Great photos from Seymour.

'Still hayseed enough to say - "Look who's in the big town"
But my bed is in a small town, and that's good enough for me'