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Viewing Album: Louisville & Indiana Railroad Company
By:
William H. Davis Jr.
Dates:
9/16/2011 - 9/16/2011
Album Info:
The Louisville & Indiana Railroad ( LIRC ) is a Class 3 railroad that operates freight service between Indianapolis, Indiana & Louisville, Kentucky, with a major yard & maintenance shop in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The 106 mile line was purchased from Conrail in March 1994. Previous to Conrail, the line was owned by Penn Central, & before that, the Pennsylvania Railroad. It serves the cities of Franklin, Sellersburg, Seymour, & Columbus, Indiana, & also serves the former Clark Maritime Center, now Port of Indiana, Jeffersonville. In Louisville, the LIRC interchanges with the Paducah & Louisville Railway, CSX Transportation & the Indiana Railroad, former CP Railway ( via trackage rights over CSXT's former Monon Line ). Traffic from them is mostly Potash. In Indianapolis, the line interchanges with CSX Transportation at Avon Yard approximately 7 miles west of the Circle City. The LIRC was briefly home to the Amtrak passenger train Kentucky Cardinal, a failed attempt to capture express business from United Parcel Service air hub in Louisville. Inconvenient departure & arrival times, coupled with the prevailing 30 MPH speed limit on the LIRC led to the trains demise in 2003. The former express facility is now run by A&R Transport, which is a plastics transload facility. Plastics make up the majority of the online business with the railroad. CSXT negotiated trackage rights over portions of the LIRC in 2004. This enabled CSXT to abandon a portion of the former B&O trackage from New Albany, Indiana to Jeffersonville, & access the remainder of the line to Charlestown, Indiana & the former Indiana Ammunition Plant using LIRC trackage over its Ohio River bridge. Additionally, CSXT has used rights over the LIRC as far north as Seymour, where it connects with another former B&O line ( now the CSXT Indiana Subdivision at Seymour ) from Cincinnati, Ohio to St. Louis, Missouri. These trains have been used to bypass the congested CSXT LCL Subdivision between Cincinnati & Louisville.
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Title:
Louisville & Indiana Railroad Company
Description:
CSXT Southbound Freight Train Q511 ( Cincinnati, Ohio to Louisville, Ky. ) passing through Cementville, In. Im not sure if this is a detour or a haulage rights train. I saw a Q573 & this Q511 running via LIRC on this day
Photo Date:
9/16/2011
Upload Date:
9/16/2011 10:27:01 PM
Location:
Cementville, IN
Author:
william davis
Categories:
Scenic,Action
Locomotives:
CSX 5259(ES40DC)
CSX 97(AC44CW)
Views:
490
Comments:
2
Title:
Louisville & Indiana Railroad Company
Description:
A pair of LIRC GP11s are doing some switching in their yard at Jeffersonville, In.
Photo Date:
9/16/2011
Upload Date:
9/16/2011 10:05:49 PM
Location:
Jeffersonville, IN
Author:
william davis
Categories:
Roster,Scenic,Yard
Locomotives:
LIRC 1803(GP11)
LIRC 1801(GP11)
Views:
656
Comments:
2
Title:
Louisville & Indiana Railroad Company
Description:
LIRC GP38-2 221 & GP39-2 2376 are doing some switching in their yard at Jeffersonville, In.
Photo Date:
9/16/2011
Upload Date:
9/16/2011 9:29:49 PM
Location:
Jeffersonville, IN
Author:
william davis
Categories:
Roster,Scenic,Yard
Locomotives:
LIRC 221(GP38-3)
LIRC 2376(GP39-2)
Views:
729
Comments:
2
Title:
Louisville & Indiana Railroad Company
Description:
LIRC Yard Job doing some switching in their yard at Je[fersonville, In.
Photo Date:
9/16/2011
Upload Date:
9/16/2011 9:23:24 PM
Location:
Jeffersonville, IN
Author:
william davis
Categories:
Scenic,Yard,Action
Locomotives:
LIRC 1803(GP11)
LIRC 1801(GP11)
Views:
678
Comments:
6
Title:
Louisville & Indiana Railroad Company
Description:
LIRC Yard Job doing some switching in their yard at Jeffersonville, In.
Photo Date:
9/16/2011
Upload Date:
9/16/2011 10:41:11 PM
Location:
Jeffersonville, IN
Author:
william davis
Categories:
Scenic,Yard,Action
Locomotives:
LIRC 2376(GP39-2)
LIRC 221(GP38-3)
Views:
474
Comments:
4
Title:
Louisville & Indiana Railroad Company
Description:
LIRC Yard Job doing some switching in their yard at Jeffersonville, In.
Photo Date:
9/16/2011
Upload Date:
9/16/2011 9:49:05 PM
Location:
Jeffersonville, IN
Author:
william davis
Categories:
Scenic,Yard,Action
Locomotives:
LIRC 2376(GP39-2)
LIRC 221(GP38-3)
Views:
455
Comments:
2
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