Every time we board the car these days, the boys want to go to Alsop Lane to see the trains. CSX maintains a small terminal and rail yard, and they usually have a couple of engines and a few dozen rail cars parked there. On some occasions, like today, we’ll catch a freight train passing through. Trains first traveled these lines in 1888 along the ambitiously named Louisville, St. Louis and Texas Railroad. Locally known as the “Texas”, even after being later renamed the more accurate Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis Railroad, this rail line has survived while all the rest have been abandoned. The tracks lay just seven blocks from our home, and we hear the current CSX Railroad engines’ passing through town several times a day. Hearing the trains is fun, but seeing them is better.
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