One of the new CSX Heritage series locomotives, the Seaboard System unit 1982, leads on CSX I026 as it heads north at dusk at Madisonville, Ky, on March 2nd, 2024, on the Henderson Subdivision. I first caught this train at Red River at Adams, TN and it was about 60 miles later here in Madisonville, Ky before I was able to get far enough ahead of it to setup for another shot. I had hoped it would show up before the sunset, but alas, it didn't happen. However I'm very pleased with this shot with my drone. I've been using DxO Pure RAW 3 for noise removal and it did a fantastic joh on this shot that was made at ISO 2630! According to Wikipedia: The Seaboard System Railroad, Inc. (reporting mark SBD) was a US Class I railroad that operated from 1982 to 1986. Since the late 1960s, Seaboard Coast Line Industries had operated the Seaboard Coast Line and its sister railroads, notably the Louisville & Nashville and Clinchfield, as the “Family Lines System”. In 1980, SCLI merged with the Chessie System to create the holding company CSX Corporation; two years later, CSX merged the Family Lines railroads to create the Seaboard System Railroad. In 1986, Seaboard renamed itself CSX Transportation, which absorbed the Chessie System’s two major railroads the following year. Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/240, ISO 2630. #trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #jimpearsonphotography #trainphotographer #railroadphotographer #csxt #dronephoto #trainsfromadrone #trending #CSXHeritageUnit

One of the new CSX Heritage series locomotives, the Seaboard System unit 1982…

One of the new CSX Heritage series locomotives, the Seaboard System unit 1982, leads on CSX I026 as it heads north at dusk at Madisonville, Ky, on March 2nd, 2024, on the Henderson Subdivision.

I first caught this train at Red River at Adams, TN and it was about 60 miles later here in Madisonville, Ky before I was able to get far enough ahead of it to setup for another shot.

I had hoped it would show up before the sunset, but alas, it didn’t happen. However I’m very pleased with this shot with my drone. I’ve been using DxO Pure RAW 3 for noise removal and it did a fantastic joh on this shot that was made at ISO 2630!

According to Wikipedia: The Seaboard System Railroad, Inc. (reporting mark SBD) was a US Class I railroad that operated from 1982 to 1986.

Since the late 1960s, Seaboard Coast Line Industries had operated the Seaboard Coast Line and its sister railroads, notably the Louisville & Nashville and Clinchfield, as the “Family Lines System”. In 1980, SCLI merged with the Chessie System to create the holding company CSX Corporation; two years later, CSX merged the Family Lines railroads to create the Seaboard System Railroad.

In 1986, Seaboard renamed itself CSX Transportation, which absorbed the Chessie System’s two major railroads the following year.

Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/240, ISO 2630.

CSX Chesapeake & Ohio Heritage unit 1869 leads hot intermodal, CSX I025, as it approaches the south end of the siding at Slaughters, Kentucky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision on February 29th, 2024. According to the CSX Website: A locomotive commemorating the proud history of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway has entered service as the fifth in the CSX heritage series celebrating the lines that came together to form the modern railroad. Numbered CSX 1869 in honor of the year the C&O was formed in Virginia from several smaller railroads, the newest heritage locomotive sports a custom paint design that includes today’s CSX colors on the front of the engine and transitions to a paint scheme inspired by 1960s era C&O locomotives on the rear two-thirds. The C&O Railway was a major line among North American freight and passenger railroads for nearly a century before becoming part of the Chessie System in 1972 and eventually merging into the modern CSX. In 1970, the C&O included more than 5,000 route miles of track stretching from Newport News, Virginia, to Chicago and the Great Lakes. Designed and painted at CSX’s locomotive shop in Waycross, Georgia, the C&O unit will join four other commemorative units in revenue service on CSX’s 20,000-mile rail network. The heritage series is reinforcing employee pride in the history of the railroad that continues to move the nation’s economy with safe, reliable, and sustainable rail-based transportation services. Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO 110. #trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #jimpearsonphotography #trainphotographer #railroadphotographer #csxt #dronephoto #trainsfromadrone #trending #CSXHeritageUnit

CSX Chesapeake & Ohio Heritage unit 1869 leads hot intermodal, CSX I025 at Slaughters, Kentucky

CSX Chesapeake & Ohio Heritage unit 1869 leads hot intermodal, CSX I025, as it approaches the south end of the siding at Slaughters, Kentucky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision on February 29th, 2024.

According to the CSX Website: A locomotive commemorating the proud history of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway has entered service as the fifth in the CSX heritage series celebrating the lines that came together to form the modern railroad.

Numbered CSX 1869 in honor of the year the C&O was formed in Virginia from several smaller railroads, the newest heritage locomotive sports a custom paint design that includes today’s CSX colors on the front of the engine and transitions to a paint scheme inspired by 1960s era C&O locomotives on the rear two-thirds.

The C&O Railway was a major line among North American freight and passenger railroads for nearly a century before becoming part of the Chessie System in 1972 and eventually merging into the modern CSX. In 1970, the C&O included more than 5,000 route miles of track stretching from Newport News, Virginia, to Chicago and the Great Lakes.

Designed and painted at CSX’s locomotive shop in Waycross, Georgia, the C&O unit will join four other commemorative units in revenue service on CSX’s 20,000-mile rail network.

The heritage series is reinforcing employee pride in the history of the railroad that continues to move the nation’s economy with safe, reliable, and sustainable rail-based transportation services.

Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO 110.