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After a what is to be considered major derailment along the CC Subdivision around Livingston, Ky, the Cumberland Valley Sub welcomed reroute traffic with open rails. G740-20 is seen here in Loyall having just tied down for the next few days. After doubling their train back into yard tracks 8 and 9, it will await a future crew to take it on south to Kingsport and then on up the former Clinchfield on its way to Russel. Not to far behind it is a second grainer, running as G842-20.

One lucky evening in my early years of photography, I stumbled upon a rare find on the CV. In a world among Gevo’s, an Ex-L&N SD40-2 found its way back to trackage that chances are it had hauled coal on many decades before. My presumption is that it came from Kingsport on its MOW train; inexperienced me at the time wasn’t aware how rare it was to see one of these powerhouses on this coal sub. Of all things, I shot on an Apple IPad at the time; probably the best photo I ever took on it.