#georgiasiding

[railwayhistorical]

Wait & Meet

The crew on a westbound job on the Baltimore & Ohio in southern Indiana (former Ohio & Mississippi) waits at the west end of Georgia Siding. Not too much later, an eastbound manifest blasts by.

The lead locomotive on the waiting train, number 6900, is the class unit for the road’s GP30s; this locale is just west of Mitchell, Indiana. The doll arm on the signal mast tells us that the signal governs the main, not the siding that holds the westbound waiting train. [There is most likely a dwarf signal for the siding, which we can’t see here.]

Three images by Richard Koenig; taken May 7th 1977.

[railwayhistorical]

The B&O in Southern Indiana—Part One

Over the next three posts I will show some images I took along the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in Southern Indiana back in 1976. This is a line that stretches between Cincinnati and St. Louis; at this point the line is rarely used, perhaps for local service, at best.

The first two images were made east of Michell, Indiana—near the tiny town of Tunnelton, and then a bit further west off Buddha Road. While these two were made with color transparency film, I must have run out and switched to black & white negative film for the remainder (being a broke teenager).

I caught up with the train in Mitchell and was able to shoot it at the west end of the siding from the N. Teke Burton Drive Overpass. The penultimate image was made with the train approaching Georgia Siding, west of Mitchell, while the final picture was taken a mile and a half east of Loogootee, Indiana, from the Highway 150 Overpass.

The lead unit, in the colorful Chessie System scheme, B&O 3546, is an EMD GP35 that was built in July of 1964. The following units are of the Southern Pacific run-through power: an SD40 and a GE U-boat.

Five images by Richard Koenig; taken March 7th 1976.