Sam Hanson of Bowling Green, Kentucky is your typical loving mother and grandmother to her kids and two grandkids, but after the sun goes down, she's serving dozens of college students and other Bowling Green residents at the Waffle House on Russellville Road. "There isn't much I'd rather be doing than being with you lovely folks," says Hanson.

Mike Kley, a member of Kentucky Railway Museum's shop forces, repositions his ladder against Louisville and Nashville combine car #665 in New Haven, Kentucky on April 18th, 2026. The 665, also known as the "Jim Crow Car" is a historic railcar on the National Register of Historic Places, and is made almost entirely of wood. Due to the car's deteriorating state, the museum is "cocooning" it to protect the remaining timber from the elements.

Brakeman Logan Emmick stands in the step well of Santa Fe CF7 #2546 after disconnecting it from the Kentucky Railway Museum's excursion train in New Haven, Kentucky on April 18th, 2026. The 2546 was originally built as an F7 passenger locomotive, and was later rebuilt by the Santa Fe for freight service. It was purchased by the museum as a backup locomotive for steam excursions in the 1990's.

Locomotive engineer Chris Moyer performs a brake pipe reduction as he slows the Kentucky Railway Museum's excursion train towards a stop just outside of Boston, Kentucky on April 18th, 2026. Moyer is operating KRM's 411, an L&N-painted GP9 locomotive that was originally built for the Reading Railroad. "If I could run any type of engine it would be a high-nose," said Moyer, referring to the 411's "high hood", where the short hood or "nose" of the locomotive is the same height as the rest of the locomotive hood.

Quentin Hughes, the Deputy Chief of the Western Kentucky University Police Department, poses for a portrait in front of his Ford Crown Victoria cruiser on top of WKU's Parking Structure One on the evening of April 30th, 2026. "I'm an old guy, so the Crown Vics have always been my favorites," said Hughes.

CSX SD40-2 #8367 idles the evening away at Bristow Yard, north of Bowling Green, Kentucky on the evening of March 26th, 2026. The 8367, having been originally built as Chesapeake and Ohio SD40 #7508, was in charge of train W053, which spent several days spraying for weeds along CSX's Mainline Subdivision, which is the original Louisville and Nashville main line running between its namesake cities.