Chasing the Paducah & Louisville Railway 

Man it's a weard feeling looking at your own backyard in a video. I know these spots and these locomotives it's oddly satisfying having our small slice or rail get some love.

You guys are the Gold Standard of train videos, the drone work on this one was excellent and what I enjoy most is the history lesson that comes with your productions. I moved from the Los Angeles area to Madisionville KY 3 years ago. I live just a short block from the CSX line that runs through the center of town, I ride my motorcycle up route 70 all the time and cross over P&L tracks all the time. They have a large switching yard there (I think) sometimes I see a train but luckily for me they are not switching cars around when I get to that crossing. You can sit there for 30 min or more while they jockey cars around. You guys need a place to crash for the night are welcome come over to our place, you just have to put up with 2 small dogs and a wife that is going to want to know your whole life story. I am baking all the time you can take some cookies with you for your journey and a loaf of Sour Dough Bread which I make a lot of and just freeze them for later use. I don't know of any camp grounds around here but there may be one or 2. Hotels will run you at least 150.00 night how they get that much money for room in such a small town is beyond me. Keep up the great work.

We stayed the night at Kuttawa this past July, and witnessed a gorgeous moonrise over Kentucky Lake Dam. There's something very special, IMO, about that section of the P&L that goes across the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers.

I live a half mile from the tracks outside of princeton Kentucky I railfan this line alot

I really enjoyed the narration, not to fast, but thankfully not to slow! Love the paint too!

I’m so glad someone finally covered P&L in detail I live about 20 minutes away from Paducah so I see lots of P&L locomotives and my father works a quarry serviced by P&L thanks for the quality content Drayton

Did not disappoint as usual, Hot coffee,pancakes,(as I was enjoying mine) The coal yard was an absolute joy to watch, as was the DRONE footage, especially of the whole train, as a College“Basaball” Fan LOVED to see the KY Unit, the early “shoving unit” servicing the local business,the P&L does it all! So glad we’ll be returning in the near future, SPECTACULAR JOB DRAYTON!

I literally grew up just down dixie highway from the first yard they showcased. Lively Shively is what the whole area is called.

Thanks for covering the Paducah and Louisville I grew up in Paducah Kentucky a little more than a mile from south yard

I’ve been waiting for some high quality documentation of P&L, glad you finally gave us some. Can’t wait to chase it for myself

I counted 100 loaded cars, the equivalent of 275 trucks ! Thanks for filming this run. Excellent work !

watching trains ,drinking cold beer priceless

Stunning drone footage on this. Really great production. Keep up the over the top job.

Amazing video! I never that there was another Class II Railroad that existed until now! Very interesting! I also like the classic EMD’s, but most of all, I love those beautiful loaded coal trains and the coal power electric generating plant at the end of the video! Love those some stacks and water tower as well! Awesome video!

Gotta love the "squat shack".,on the back end. A paint job would really spice up the multy purpose

Watching other people cover a local operator to my area has always fascinated me. As someone who lives about 20 to 30 miles from Paducah, I’d say that the first half of the P&L’s name doesn’t get as much love as it should. I’ve seen a shocking number of wild lashups of equipment come out of the Southside yard and there’s a fair bit of action out of the locomotive shops that I’m surprised it gets so little coverage.

Whoa! Cool!

Excellent production. Can’t beat the drone footage for that dramatic effect. I live very close to the PAL mainline and love the sound of those locos working in the 8th notch heading up grade through Vine Grove and Radcliff. Tip top is the summit of the grade and the train then heads down grade into Kosmosdale. Keep up the first class work. Thank you.

Thank you for pronouncing Louisville the correct, local way lol. Great video!

Gorgeous aerial footage! And a great looking railroad.

Great video! Those drone shots at Spring Lick were incredible!

We used to have to get on the PAL territory and I can say for a solid fact that LED light will burn your retinas through the back of your skull but when they passed and you turned around you could see what felt like a mile in front of the head end

Thank you for coming down to Kentucky to document the P&L. Hope to see more.

planning on railfanning this railroad soon, thanks for the cool info!

Dome of the best train clips I've ever seen

That was a fun day drayton, I still wish I had been running the 8507 but I don't usually complain when I get the 3800, she's pretty quick.

You always do an excellent job please be safe I give you a plus a job well done please be safe the Lord's blessings be with you

Great video as always, and glad you did a video of one of my hometown railroads. It’s cool to see the railroad action around where I live, as south/west Louisville (despite the unfortunate danger due to external circumstances) has some of the coolest railroad infrastructure in the city, dating back to the early days of rail in the city, including passenger services, such as the PAL and NS yards (former IC and Southern), along with all of the different interchanges.

That gate stuck up on dixie highway is scary!

Watching this one and the Grand Elk Railroad one just before my interview for Wisconsin & Southern tomorrow. Definitely eases a lot of the nervousness. You and BradleyDCC both keep up the great work

Yall know how to camp and I like it!

AHHH, my Sunday AM coffee video has arrived! Thank you Drayton!

I Iove these videos of yours hanging out with your friends. They have a nice livery (the railroad I mean), it's beginning to be that it makes a change to see a regional that's not orange

The barrier arms are out of sync at the Dixie Highway level crossing. They both start going down and then the left one stops and starts again after the loco is clear of the road. It's a refreshing sight not too that long rake of coal wagons haven't fallen victim to the vandal's spray cans. Hi from NZ, Anthony.

Boy U guys are GOOD

It's great to see the Old SD70Mac's still earning their keep On another railroad. Excellent video and drone footage. Keep up the great work.

The point from DIB here is if you go to Louisville, don't get dead

Absolutely outstanding production! One of the best rail fan videos I’ve seen and spectacular drone shots.

dude nice video glad to see some p&l railway

Drayton, thank you for documenting the Paducah & Louisville Railroad for us! Your chase of the local was interesting. That shoving platform is unique. The locations you chose to showcase the coal train on its trip from the mine to the power plant where great to view and showed the length and power needed to move the coal train.!

Love It. The NS Train with 9481 Leading was Train 223.

Another great video. What a shame that Louisville is so horrible.

That shoving platform was a great idea for modeling

LOVE THE X-SP GP-38-2 ! SP LIVES

They are on my to do list for sure

Love the drone footage!!!

Amazing drone action!

Now I know what a "ghetto caboose" is! Another very good video by you.

Awesome variety of trains over different terrain!

Very nice presentation I really like the LED headlights with the non condescend ditch lights contrast, Caltrain uses the same type of thing but ditchlights instead of headlights.

Well done gentlemen!

Great video 🚄🚄👍

Oh my gosh I would love to catch this train but you guys had the perfect set up I love it!!

Even in a group you are brave for venturing into the seedy parts of Louisville . Maybe you can cover pals subsidiary, the Evansville western.

another great video. thank you

thank you share this video other from Australia

10:14 looks like the gate got caught on the cantilever on that left signal

Excellent work Drayton!

This is great, deserves an A+!

Thx and greetings from Germany

Man that drone footage and the sound.. Was that looped from trackside? It was epic, as was the flying and camera work... Loved it!

awesome video!!! keep up the good work Drayton!

Amazing video and production as always Drayton. Shots from the drone are second to none. They look like something I would expect to see in a commercial or promotional video for a railroad. Hope to see you make a video in Wisconsin someday.

Amazing camera angles and learn something out of this video love them sd70macs green and that now knew little bit about Louisville area

Gotta love those MACs! Looks great on those drone shots.

@Delay in Block Productions Jolly good show guys 🙂

Class act, cheers

Where I come from I have a class three regional short line called the Fort Worth and Western Railroad they use incandescent bulb headlights and LED ditch lights which is the opposite of what the train in your video is

Great video! Loved it, thanks! :) : :)

Great video! I used to live along the P&L near Dixie Highway and enjoyed their trains with those old GP units at that time. LP1 and PL4 tended to run in the dark most of the time then. Also, you’re spot on about Kentucky street and Oak street yard being a rotten and dangerous neighborhood for sure. The ICG also used to switch the Frito-Lay plant in Shively many years ago before it closed.

Hey, that’s an awesome video! I really like the colors on the locomotives. It’s a nice dark aqua green. 🙂

ZR2 FTW!! 2017 2.8 here!

One of the Class I's PAL interchanges with is the BNSF in Paducah. Wyoming coal comes down the BNSF through southern Illinois to Paducah, and interchanges with the PAL, who takes the coal to barge terminals along the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers. This is usually done with run through BNSF power and crews. The same company that owns the PAL, also owns the Evansville & Western (EVWR). Their power has the same paint scheme, just with different lettering. They operate the former L&N line between Evansville and St. Louis. It will be interesting to see how PAL survives if the coal business goes away. Other than a few yard jobs, and one manifest each way between Louisville and Paducah, there's not much business other than coal.

Well done. 👍

I have 8 Paducah and Louisville railroad spikes

Cant wait!

Awesome video!

Excellent drone footage. :-)

Nice catches! I’m hopping for more good content! 😁

Its nice to see some older SD Power being used ; A dying breed of power, It would be nice to see a train being pulled by a string of SD40-2s

Excellent video, i live in vine grove and hear P&L all the time.ufortunately most of the trains other than locals pass here after dark. I remember when P&L started up they had mostly worn out GP10's.at that time i lived in rineyville and saw them all the time struggling with coal trains, of course then they were pulling about 70-75 cars and no dpu's.

Very Nice Video!

I been on p&l Railroad all my life

Wow nice train

I was in Martinsville Racetrack 5 years love Racetrack with NS go though.

Need to do a video on the Paducah and Louisville subsidiary Evansville Western.

I absolutely love your videos! The Paducah and Louisville has been one of my favorite railroads and I really appreciate this video. Any chance if you're down in Florida doing a video on The Bay Line in Panama City FL and runs to Dothan AL? I really enjoy your channel.

This reminds me of the Wheeling and Lake Erie 262 that I hear at 3 am that is sort of my alarm clock for work.

Makes me excited a because gotten better that drone and that excites you that coming back to St. Louis Here tips for favorite Drone plot and film so there’s lots amazing places so here we go 1. Lenox Tower 2. WR 3. East St Louis Valley Junction 4. Grand Avenue 5. Alton IL Amtrak Station 6. Hartford 7. Pacific 8. HN Cabin 9. Litchfield 10. Southern Crossing 11. Greenville 12. Keysport 13. Valley Park 14. West Alton MO

Awesome dude. I am Active Duty Army stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky and their mainline runs straight through and services the Base as well.

Hi Arthur!, I'm from Fishers! Nice camping setup!

I'm not sure how many of you caught this, but at 10:15 notice how the left side crossing arm doesn't fully descend until after the train is already over the crossing. Surely that's a massive safety concern and hopefully it has been reported and fixed. We all know people don't just slow and come to a stop if they see the lights are on at a crossing and the arms are still up.

Great video! Beautiful videography as always. Don't really know who is giving this a thumbs down but ok.

Ayyy, nice audio mixing!

Only 6 days to go

Shoot I live about 40min southwest of Indianapolis in a town called Martinsville.

Cheap you are not.Noted intelligence you guys have.Great stuff.

Your right about some of the areas being rough you need several people and carry pistols the trouble makers do

at 17:48 is that guy smoking while on top of that Gasoline tanker after teh train passes?

Awesome catches Drayton! Also, did you know that CSX has putted some of their Dash-9's and even some of their Dash-8's back into service?