Paducah and Louisville Railway (PAL) engines

The 270-mile (430 km) line was purchased from Illinois Central Gulf Railroad in August, 1986. The 223-mile (359 km) main route runs between Paducah and Louisville with branch lines from Paducah to Kevil and Mayfield, Kentucky and another from Cecilia to Elizabethtown, Kentucky. The PAL interchanges with Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) and Canadian National (CN), formerly Illinois Central Railroad, in Paducah. In Madisonville, the line interchanges with CSX Transportation (CSXT).

Nearer the camera are a pair of EMD SW13 switchers (rebuilt locomotives produced at the IC Paducah Shops between 1971 and 1975, not a factory-new model) and further away a GP10, likewise rebuilt from a GP9.