Carbon & Limestone Railroad. 'The Rocky Road!'
Southern steam crosses Main Street in Carbon Kentucky. More beer joints, poolhalls and jute joints than you can shake a stick at in this boom town! It's quite the contrast with Crooked Creek a poorer mining town south of here.
(Note: need to research steam locomotives, pick out a reasonable roster of engines for 1949 and reskin them with the C&L name. High up on any to do list will also be to have AI make an old timey railroad logo. A circle with the corporate C&L name that goes around the badge along with our 'The Rocky Road!' slogan. Then in the middle of the circle an outline of a bear. This recognizes one of the places on our route, the almost famous Kentucky settlement called Bear Tussle where some wild & woolly mountain man supposedly out wrestled a bear back in the earlies. Many will admit to you that's all hogwash, they hold it to be true that the bear won!)
Another view of Main Street with a more proper train photo, this time at the other end of the street looking south. Southern Railway also serves Carbon, they work a small interchange yard and have two stalls out of the seven total in our round house. Southern also has trackage rights to Limestone but according to contract no coal for them to haul if its comes from the Carbon area! Rumors fly around constantly that they are going to buy the Carbon & Limestone but that talk has gone on forever.
The joker that is our company photographer evidently climbed a tree to get this shot. Of course he had to pick out the dirtiest mess in town at the Kentucky Scrap Company to take a snapshot of. That's high achievement to out dirty the coal mines around here! Also to the right you can see company housing. Both railroads & the coal mines have some decent housing in their own sections, much better than poor old Crooked Creek which I understand you might have recently visited just to the south of here.
No doubt about it, two of Carbon Police Departments finest! The twins are fondly called Pete and Repeat by many of the locals in Carbon. They are securing the road construction worksite which has gone from Limestone on the Ohio River up to the Mountains and now literally are about to hookup to Main Street. This marvel of modern highway construction will be called Highway 99. The Construction & Engineering company leveled acres of trees and right behind them grading work and right now they are paving just a mile further south of here.
(I get sidetracked often! A fellow that posts a lot on the forums and is always helpful to me & everyone else got on me once when I was neglecting the RG&D Soldier Summit Route for a similar sideshow with news helicopters, toxic chemicals, an evil Corporate PR Lady, derailments and so forth. By the way I am convinced he works for NV3 Games but can't prove it and won't cough up a name. But this diversion might payoff. Thinking of a big timber harvest on a mountain or we could up the stakes and go all out. Time to push the throttle up to full military power and Strip mine a Mountain!)
