CSX I025 heads south at Madisonville, Kentucky on the CSX Henderson Subdivision on January 4th, 2024, as they pass the demolition of The Messenger Newspaper building in downtown Madisonville. I spent a lot of good years from 1996-2013 working in this building as a photojournalist and their IT guy! Covered many, many interesting assignments over the years and to the right corner of the building there was a set of stairs with a landing where I would stand to watch and photograph passing trains. It got to where if I was working and someone in the newsroom heard a train coming, they’d call out to me “Train Jim!” LOL I thought if was fitting I get my last shot of the building with a train passing it. The building is making way for a new Dunkin Donuts! The offices for the paper are now located in a strip mall about a mile away, and while it still serves our community, it’s a shell of what it was during the time I was there. A sad state of many papers not only across the USA, but the world. Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 100. #railroad #railroads #train #trains #bestphoto #railroadengines #picturesoftrains #picturesofrailway #bestphotograph #photographyoftrains #trainphotography #JimPearsonPhotography #csxhendersonsubdivision #csxt

CSX I025 heads south at Madisonville, Kentucky passing the demolition of The Messenger Newspaper

CSX I025 heads south at Madisonville, Kentucky on the CSX Henderson Subdivision on January 4th, 2024, as they pass the demolition of The Messenger Newspaper building in downtown Madisonville.

I spent a lot of good years from 1996-2013 working in this building as a photojournalist and their IT guy! Covered many, many interesting assignments over the years and to the right corner of the building there was a set of stairs with a landing where I would stand to watch and photograph passing trains. It got to where if I was working and someone in the newsroom heard a train coming, they’d call out to me “Train Jim!” LOL I thought it was fitting I get my last shot of the building with a train passing it.

The building is making way for a new Dunkin Donuts! The offices for the paper are now located in a strip mall about a mile away, and while it still serves our community, it’s a shell of what it was during the time I was there. A sad state of many papers not only across the USA, but the world.

Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 100.