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“Big Emma” helping a coal train

By Angela Cotey | February 6, 2023

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


Louisville & Nashville M-1 2-8-4 1954 (a “Big Emma”) pushes behind the caboose of a northbound coal train on the big Red River bridge south of Winchester, Ky., in May 1952.
Ed Theisinger photo

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