Oneida & Western
Prototype Photos
Loading the "Green Train" at Clover,
KY -Stuart Thayer Photo
The O&W
The Oneida & Western was not a true railroad in the
traditional sense. The O&W owned locomotives, cars, and cabs; but operated over
L&N (later Seaboard and CSX) lines in Kentucky and Tennessee using L&N
crews. It was owned by the Shamrock Coal Company, and it's mint green equipment
earned the unit train the nickname "Green Train."
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 SD40-2 9957 waits for the Green Train to finish loading at the Shamrock Coal Company flood loader at Clover, KY on the L&N's old CV division. 1 May 87 -Stuart Thayer |
 9957 at Clover, KY. 1 May 87 -Stuart Thayer |
 Shamrock Coal Company switcher at Clover, KY. 1 May 87 -Stuart Thayer |
 Empty Green Train moving back into the coalfields runs into the tunnel at Morley, TN. 1 May 87 -Stuart Thayer |
 Green Train moves through Etowah, TN. Nov 84 -Stuart Thayer |
 Even though this is after the Seaboard System merger, this L&N SD40-2 has not been renumbered or patched yet. Here it helps two Oneida & Western SD40-2s with a southbound loaded unit coal train, Conasauga, TN, Feb 84 -Jay Thompson Thanks to Robert Thompson for scanning his father's photos and adding the descriptions, click here to view more of Jay Thompson's photos on Flickr |
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 9957 at Clover, KY. 1 May 87 -Stuart Thayer |
 O&W cab #9990 at Corbin, KY. 13 Apr 88 -Stuart Thayer |
 The second O&W cab, #9999 at Emlyn, KY. 13 Apr 88 -Stuart Thayer |
For more related photos, see the L&N Photos page