Once the main cleared, Q121 was the first train south, though very slowly on a 10 mph slow order.

SB coal train near Alliance

SB intermodal taking the #2 main at Princeton

Splitting the signal at 268.4

G198 arrives in Evansville, bathing in the late afternoon sun. The train went in to emergency about 1000' ahead. Fortunately the air came back up and the train made it in to Howell.

Into the golden evening sun at Vincennes.

A parting shot at Decker

Coal train V566 apparantly left the tracks when entering the wye at Hazelton. Four cars were strewn about with wheelsets all over the place.

Apparantly empty as no signs of spilled coal were present.

NB rack train passes through Kings.

Three GE's lead 3 EVWR EMD's at Belknap. EVWR was delivering the power to the AB Brown spur to return an empty coal drag to Evansville.

With the wye just ahead, the train starts to slow. The three CSX engines will be left on the wye to power a coal drag back to Evansville.

SB Q121 at Princeton

SB rack train Q247 peeks around the corner at S. Gibson

An EVWR crew prepares to pull a coal train in to AB Brown power plant

The crane survived the flood.

A new GE leads Q129 south over the Ohio River

On the move west, the train is about to cross under the University Parkway west of Evansville

West of Caborn

West of Caborn

The train arrives in Mt Vernon IN, just passing the wye to Southwind.

The train crosses Big Creek near the Wabash River bottoms. This marked the end of my chase.

CSX on NS at Lyles.

A fairly short Q121 flies south.

NB train Q648 eases across the very swollen Ohio River across from Henderson KY.

Seven inches of rain in an already saturated area equals widespread flooding.

Q648 waits behind a work train to get in to Howell.

NB stack train gets a signal at Claremont Ave and proceeds north out of Howell Yard.

An empty SB coal train holds the siding at Gibson and will meet L124 before proceeding south.

Meet complete, T979 heads south