Weekend Photos - December 2025

[webenda]

Driving around Kentucky in the Google Street View car I came across a coal tower in Lebanon Junction.

[healey36]

What railroad is this? I'm guessing the old L&N. A big old concrete structure like that would likely be a bear to remove, so I guess they figured they'd just leave it. Looks like a terrific spot for some rail-fanning.

After a mottled paint job, a bit of ongoing masonry work here as well; the USPS-supplied stonework is being installed on the two tunnel portals on the tree-stand project:



Painted them yesterday and glittered the two buildings as well. Ready to start the main glittering project once we get those cemented in, then we're done. Can't wait to see the back-end of this dog.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Looks like a terrific spot for some rail-fanning.

I'm liking the barrel base mailbox,

[sarge]

It's the L&N, just outside Fort Knox, the Tanker's Paradise.

If you look at the address on "Maps", run up the satellite view, you can see how multi-track coal docks work.

[webenda]

What railroad is this? I'm guessing the old L&N. A big old concrete structure like that would likely be a bear to remove, so I guess they figured they'd just leave it. Looks like a terrific spot for some rail-fanning.

Correct, L&N. The coaling tower was there in 1915 when L&N records indicate a proposed arrangement for watering and coaling engines at coaling station at Lebanon Junction — Lebanon, KY, March 3, 1915. I can't find any records on the build date but Lebanon Junction sprang into existence from a railroad switching point that split the Louisville and Nashville Railroad traffic off the mainline to the Lebanon Branch that ended in Lebanon, Kentucky. This branch was completed no later than March 8, 1858, and the town grew out of a need for railroad workers to man the terminal and switching station. L&N became part of the CSX Transportation system in 1986.
Reference:
https://lebanonjunctionky.com/community ... %20station.
https://filsonhistorical.org/research-d ... 1879-1961/
https://library.louisville.edu/archives ... 0in%201986.

[webenda]

It's the L&N, just outside Fort Knox, the Tanker's Paradise.
If you look at the address on "Maps", run up the satellite view, you can see how multi-track coal docks work.

Thank you for the image, Sarge.
Your photo shows no roof and from the ground you can see sky through coal chute openings. Shouldn't it have a roof?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I think there might be a disparity in time line between the 2 photos.

Also, I think the entire upper section of the building is missing and just the lower concrete section remains.

Would make an interesting artifact on a layout.

[healey36]

Looks like a terrific spot for some rail-fanning.

I'm liking the barrel base mailbox,

Didn't even notice the mailbox, lol. Probably filled with concrete or sand, a deterrent to the high-school kid that thinks it's fun to run over peoples' mailboxes.

[webenda]

Also, I think the entire upper section of the building is missing and just the lower concrete section remains.

Oh! I was wondering if they filled it by hand with a shovel. It looked too tall to throw coal that high.

[healey36]

So I wonder if the base of the conveyor sits on what is now Railroad Avenue, or is that on the opposite side of the tracks?

A friend of mine posted this in her Flickr archive...thought it interesting:



I think of this every time I visit my kid up in Albany, crossing over the mainline heading west out of the city.

[healey36]

Okay, I'm calling this done:



After three-plus hours in the basement alternatively glittering and vacuuming, I think Rev. 2 is complete. Lots of room for process improvements, and I've taken copious notes, but I'm doubting there's ever a Rev. 3. What a death-march this project is.

More pics after the wife gets the village set up.

Hallelujah!

Maybe I can get the outdoor lights up now.

[webenda]

I admire your work, Healey. I really like that little tower house.

[healey36]

Thanks, Wayne. Since the intent is to use this primarily with the European wind-ups we have, I wanted it to have a Euro-look about it. You got a hill, you gotta have a castle on it, right? Well, maybe just a Norman-style church.

Just thankful this is done.

Paul R.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

More pics after the wife gets the village set up.

Looking forward to seeing them.

Maybe I can get the outdoor lights up now.

Too cold today and there's this white stuff everywhere......

[healey36]

Maybe I can get the outdoor lights up now.

Too cold today and there's this white stuff everywhere......

And damn cold as well...I don't think we ever got to 30 degrees today. If we did, not by much.

Gonna do the cemetery tour tomorrow...always a rockin' good time.