May 4, 2018 – Day 186 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B&W Photo Challenge – Shutterbug Elaina

May 4, 2018 – Day 186 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B&W Photo Challenge – Shutterbug Elaina – Today after I picked my niece Elaina up from preschool we headed downtown to shoot pictures and this shot is from the old courthouse, one of the places she wanted to shoot. As much as possible when I’m out shooting with my “Shutterbug Kids” I let them pick the direction they want to wander and take photos. She is one of 5 of my great-great nieces and nephews between the ages of 4-7 years old where we go out on photo adventures together!

May 3, 2018 – Phosphate train CSX K814 NB at Nortonville, Ky

May 3, 2018 – Phosphate train CSX K814, with CP locomotives 8824, 8769 & 8946, (New Whales, FL – Chicago, IL) passes the DPU end of loaded coal train. CSX N019-02. at what used to be the north end of the Romney siding at Crofton, Ky as it continues it’s move north on the Henderson Subdivision. The two sidings at Nortonville have now been turned into a two track main with track on the right and two on the left. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad #cprailroad #canadianpacific

May 3, 2018 – Day 185 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B&W Photo Challenge – Blizzard Time

May 3, 2018 – Day 185 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B&W Photo Challenge – Blizzard Time – What’s better than a cool Oreo Blizzard at Dairy Queen, after a hot spring day playing at the park! For me, capturing a portrait of my handsome nephew Jayden using the portrait mode on my iPhone! He’s also a pretty good young photographer himself! Look him up on Facebook! His page (which I manage) is Shutterbug Jayden and you’ll see a photo he captured yesterday while we were there.

May 2, 2018 – Day 184 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B&W Photo Challenge – Ballerina Elaina

May 2, 2018 – Day 184 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B&W Photo Challenge – Ballerina Elaina – My niece Ashley shares a moment with her daughter Elaina before heading off for her ballet class. When photographing parents and kids together try to capture natural moments that occur between them.

May 3, 2018 – CSX K814, with CP locomotives 8824, 8769 and 8946 at Crofton, Ky

May 3, 2018 – CSX K814, with CP locomotives 8824, 8769 and 8946, (New Whales, FL – Chicago, IL) Phosphate train, meets southbound CSX Q025-03 at the north end of the siding at Crofton, Ky as it waits to continue it’s move north on the Henderson Subdivision under stormy skies. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad #cprailroad #canadianpacific

Day 183 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B&W Photo Challenge – Hugs and Kisses

May 1, 2018 – Day 183 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B&W Photo Challenge – Hugs and Kisses – Damion tries his best to get away from his little sister who wants to give him hugs and kisses after his participation in his kindergarten classes performance this evening at his school. He loves his sister to the moon and back, but hugs and kisses from his sister in public and at school, not happening if he can help it! Capture the moments between siblings, they make for great memories!

Stormy skies loom over CSX X573-02, Kelly, Ky

May 3, 2018 – Stormy skies loom over CSX X573-02 as it heads south at Kelly, Ky with a lash-up of CSXT 314, 404, 9046, 5014, 684, 673, 669 and 672. The train was rerouted onto the Henderson Subdivision due to a derailment on the Mainline Sub at Lebanon, Ky. The 5014 and last 4 locomotives are 600 series engines (AC60CWs) and have been sold off by CSX and are on their way to Progress Rail. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad

CSXT 4074 heads under the New Salem Loop bridge, Nortonville, Ky

April 26, 2018 – CSXT 4074 heads under the New Salem Loop bridge with local J732-26 as it makes its way north at Nortonville, Ky on track 2 up the Henderson Subdivision as it heads for Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, Ky. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad

NS 1074 Lackawanna Heritage Unit at Rahm, IN

April 28, 2018 – For the second time in a week we find a Norfolk Southern Heritage unit on a CSX freight on the Henderson Subdivision. Today CSX Q589-28 (Avon, IN – Wauhatchie, TN.) has the NS 1074 Lackawanna Heritage Unit trailing as the second unit, as it snakes its way up the viaduct at Rahm, Indiana. – #jimstrainphotos #indinarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad #nsrailway #nsheritageunit