600.
10:36 a.m.—Extra 484 North (GP7) (Miracle Turn) arrives Corbin with 30- 0-2700.
11:00 a.m.—No. 853 (called 10:30 a.m.) departs
Corbin for Lynch.
1430/1401/1533 (C630/C628/U28C), Green/Estep, 1-40-1040. This is Lynch Turn No. 1. The train will pick up an- other 40 empties from the storage yard at Chad, on the Poor Fork Branch, be- fore continuing to Lynch. 10:58 a.m.—Number 850 meets Ex- tra 129 North at Blackmont.
11:00 a.m.—Work Extra 171 passes
the loaded first half of the Merna Unit Train at Glidden, while the rest of the train is loading on the branch at Mer- na. This is an absolute train order meet.
11:30 a.m.—No. 831 (the day train on
the C&M Branch, called 11:00 a.m.) de- parts Corbin—169/137 (two RS3s), MD Hoskins/L Hoskins, 1-40-955. 11:40 a.m.—No. 853 meets No. 850 at Barbourville 11: 45 a.m.—No. 833 — 187 (RS3), departs Middlesboro with 4-0-225. This
is the Middlesboro-Pennington Local now headed south to Pennington, via the Old CV main through Cumberland Gap.
12:19 a.m.—No. 831 diverges from
the CV main at Heidrick and heads “up” (southbound) the C&M Branch to Manchester. 12:35 p.m.—Extra 117 South (called 12 noon) departs Corbin with 117 (RS3), W.T. Hall/M.B. Fleenor, 16-15- 1421. This is the CV Local Freight, which works between Corbin and Mid- dlesboro. 12:35 p.m.—No. 855 arrives at Nor-
ton.
12:50 p.m.—Extra 1532 North de- parts Glidden (the now-loaded Merna Turn, with the power in reverse order after loading on the branch) with 86-0- 9460. The four GE six-motor units are
LEFT: At daybreak on June 30, 1965, Extra 314 North, the “Night Lynch,” picks up Form 19 train orders from Loyall’s third trick oper- ator, Molus Lewis. Engineer Morgan Calhoun is grabbing the order hoop. This regular run was later given schedule number 850. FA2 number 314 still exists, at the Illinois Railway Museum at Union, one of a few of the Alco cabs that had a second life on Long Island as cab control cars. BELOW: Head brakeman Tom Burns returns to claim his seat as the CV local departs Middlesboro, Ky., as train 90 (later 832) on September 14, 1966.
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