The story of the purchase by P&L of used AC power from CSX has shown up a couple of times in the TRAINSNewswire and another one on this date; referencing the repainting of the former CSX units.
FTA:****"Paducah & Louisville acquires AC power"
By Chris Guss
Published: April 24, 2013
Paducah & Louisville No. 4502 at Paducah on April 11.
Photo by Dan Schroeder
FTA:“…PADUCAH, Ky. – The Paducah & Louisville Railway acquired more locomotives earlier this year and has begun repainting them in preparation for service on the western Kentucky short line. The company acquired 16 EMD SD70MACs from CSX, which were constructed in the late 1990s. The 16 locomotives purchased are CSXT Nos. 4501-4506, 4510-4512, 4516-4520, 4522, and 4523…”
TRAINS had done a story about the then WATCO Company’s Railroad in West Virginia, THe Appalachian and Ohio (nee: The B&O RR’s ., Cowen and Pickens subs) The story went on to describe the various operational is
So what are you speculating?
To this point, moelarrycurly4:
"…Sometime back (maybe 2006 or2007) we had a discussion here on the Forum about the potential links a system would have for an East West routing, anchored on the Westend by St. Louis area, and on the East by Grafton,WV(?)…"
The above. To create the railroad link described .[ CSXT filling in the missing links on the route.]
I thought it would make for an interesting conversation around here.
Sorry for so long to reply I fell ill last week,
interesting speculation
Four River Transportation changed i’ts name recently ( last year sometime) It is now P&L Tansporttaion with P&L EVWR and A&O under it’s belt.
From what the Co president has said CSX says out of most of the business of running the roads.
All are dispatched from here in Paducah at their new headquarters.
during summer time I was told that the A&O only operates at night because the heat causes issue with the rails on the grades.