🚎Throwback Thursday 🔙 Louisville's last remaining mule-drawn trolley cars, once operated by the Louisville Railway Company is on display at Historic Union Station, offering a rare glimpse into the city’s early public transportation history. The trolley first entered service in 1865, helping connect neighborhoods long before electric streetcars and buses, and remained in operation until its retirement in 1902. TARC carefully refurbished the trolley to preserve its historic character. This resto

Paducah and Louisville Railway 2100 leads the daily local through PAL's west yard after doing its interchange work with CSX at Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, Kentucky. Part of it's pickup today, January 18th, 2021, was six engines, dead in tow, bound for the NRE shops at Paducah, Kentucky after a brief stay at Princeton. The power on this train was, PAL, 2100, 2121, 2101, 2104, CIT/CBFX 1579 and 1589 switchers, NERX 2710, 8580 (both ex SP), Northside Mining 2001 and NREX 2724, also ex-SP. | Jim

4.8K views · 236 reactions | Appalachian and Ohio Railroad working Paducah and Louisville's West Yards, Madisonville, Ky. A&O is part of the PAL group. | Jim Pearson Photography | Facebook

Paducah and Louisville Railway, 4522 and 2012, University of Kentucky locomotives, lead loaded coal train LG1 through Rosine, Kentucky as they make their way north to the Louisville Gas & Electric powerplant, just south of Louisville, Kentucky on August 17, 2021with PAL 4512 & 4523 as the rear DPUs. | Jim Pearson Photography

May 13, 2020 - Paducah and Louisville Railway (PAL) 1998, University of Kentucky engine, leads a Scotty's Rock train south on LV1 with PAL 2100 and 2121 trailing. Tech Info: iPhone 11Pro, 4K, edited with Adobe Ruse on the iPad. | Jim Pearson Photography

9.8K views · 821 reactions | February 2022 Paducah and Louisville Railway 4516 leads a empty coal train to Warrior Coal Loop at Madisonville, KY through Icy Trees. #jimpearsonphotography | Jim Pearson Photography | Facebook

A southbound Paducah and Louisville Railroad rock train headed up by engine 2109 passes through the crossing at West Yards in Madisonville, Ky as it heads toward Louisville on March 9th, 2014. | Jim Pearson Photography

On February 5, 2019 Paducah & Louisville Railway Military Move, MI1, heads south through Richland, Ky. | Jim Pearson Photography