RJ Corman FP7A Dinner Train Runaround Bardstown KY

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RJC 1940 and RJC 1941 perform runaround maneuvers at both the Jim Beam distillery in Limestone Springs, Kentucky, and near the depot in Bardstown out of which RJCR's My Old Kentucky Dinner Train is based. • R.J. Corman Railroad Group, LLC, for those of you who are unfamiliar with it, is a railroad holding company that owns and operates short-line railroad lines in Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia. The train in this video, My Old Kentucky Dinner Train, operates on the RJCR Bardstown Branch, formally owned by both CSX Transportation and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and originally built by the Bardstown and Louisville Railroad in 1860. The route takes the train from the old depot in Bardstown, Kentucky, all the way up to the Jim Bean distillery at Limestone Springs Junction, where the locomotives detach from the train and run around to the other end. The train is then pulled back to Bardstown, where the locomotives run around again before backing the train into the depot. I thought the whole process was done very smoothly; the only layperson indicator that it was going on at all was the sight of the locomotives gliding by the windows. • The train consists of four refurbished steel skirted Budd coaches, and power is provided by a pair of EMD FP7A's. The coaches were all built in the late 1940s, and their lineage can be traced back to the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Santa Fe Railroad's El Capitan, and President Dwight Eisenhower's funeral train to Abilene, Kansas. Although there are four coaches on the roster, only three were in the consist I took a ride on. The locomotives, both EMD FP7A's, are ex-Southern units originally built for the Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific Railway in October of 1950. • The first part of the video was shot from my seat inside RJC 777, which was the northernmost coach in the consist: the coach from which the locomotives detached at Limestone Springs. My prime rib had just arrived, and I wasn't about to get up to film anything, especially with all of the hubbub going on at the rear of the train. There were so many people on the rear deck of RJC 777 watching the runaround that any video recorded from there would've probably been crappy. I weighed my options and proceeded to shoot from my seat. So... take the opportunity to notice how smoothly and quietly the whole procedure was from the inside; that lady at 0:08 was totally taken off guard by the passing locomotives! Also, check out RJC 777's interior. RJ Corman was in no way screwing around when they refurbished these coaches: they're exquisite. • The second part of the video was shot from RJC 777's rear deck, which was totally empty by this point with the exception of yours truly. In this shot, filmed at the runaround track near the depot in Bardstown, the locomotives pull onto the Bardstown Branch and wait for the crewman to throw the switch before re-coupling to RJC 777 and backing the train into the Bardstown depot. • If you know my channel, then you know that I'm based out of Boston, Massachusetts, and that I focus primarily on what was once the Boston and Maine Railroad. I don't normally film trains that are more than 1,000 miles away, as cool as they are, simply because they're more than 1,000 miles away! You can expect more videos from this area in the future, though, and from now on I'll be learning as much as I can about the railroads down here. One of the things that I'm confused about is RJ Corman's reporting marks. I know that each short-line has its own reporting mark (the Bardstown Branch is RJCR), but what about the locomotives and rolling stock? Are they just listed as RJC? I just listed them as RJC. • Thanks for watching. Like I said, I'll be in this area a lot more in the future, so if you're a railfan in the Kentucky, be sure to subscribe and comment! • Special thanks to my wonderful girlfriend for buying us the tickets! • Facebook: / signalhillprods • Twitter: / signalhillprods • Instagram: / signalhillprods • © 2013 Signal Hill Productions

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