I was catching up on my railfan surfing tonight and ran across a post on the P&L forum that indicated that Dennis Carnal had passed away.  I quickly pulled up the West KY NRHS website and saw the information about his death in the newsletters.

I first met Dennis though my quest to complete my collection of L&N Employee magazines.  He had posted that he had some for sale and I contacted him and found out that he had several that I needed and I had extras that he needed so we arranged a trade.  Dennis and I arranged to meet at his house on one of my visits to Henderson and traded magazines, traded stories, and discussed the Cardinals vs the Reds.

My primary RR interest is in the tunnels [I’ll spare you the long story why] and Dennis and I hooked up on a couple of different trips over the next couple of years to explore tunnels and sites.  I had permission from the owner of the land where the original tunnel west of Dawson Springs is located to hike in and check it out and Dennis went with me.  On another trip, he hooked me up with one of his friends from Greenville who knew about the buried tunnel on the original O & N alignment near Cleaton.  That day we also checked out the daylighted IC tunnel sites on the P&L at Echols, Rosine, Black Rock, and near Stephensburg-that was a fun day.

Enough rambling, I just thought I’d express my condolences to your group on his loss.  He was very gracious to me and willing to share any information that he could.  He also kept trying to get me to come to one of your meetings, but I was never down on a Monday that you were meeting.

Sincerely,
Butch Adkins, Lexington  KY