BNSF LCHI6571 heads onto the P&I at West Paducah, Ky The last light of the day begins to fade on CN’s Bluford Subdivision as BNSF 1706 (SD40-2 in BN Paint) and HLCX 3889 lead BNSF local, LCHI6571 (Centralia, IL to Paducah, KY) as it takes the switch onto CN;s P&I Branch on its way to the Paducah and Louisville Railway to perform interchange work at Paducah, KY. It felt like this train would never arrive as I sat here at the junction for 4 hours this afternoon and in that time frame this is the only train that passed through here! It is the train that was to pick up the NB Southern unit for it's return trip to Centralia, IL and I was planning to give chase on its way back north. It departed Centralia at 1:45pm, which was 121miles from Paducah, and only had to work two places so I figured it would be at Chiles by around 5, but it finally showed up at 7:38! I was really bummed that it got in so late, but I also didn't know that was going to tie down for the night here at Paducah, so it all worked out fine, just meant a second trip to get the move back north, from which you can see some of the images on my Facebook page or website. Sometimes railfanning is like this! Patience and persistence are the keys! Tech Info for each image is in that images caption: DJI Mavic Air 2 Drone, RAW, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/90, ISO 110.

BNSF LCHI6571 heads onto the P&I at West Paducah, KY

The last light of the day begins to fade on CN’s Bluford Subdivision as BNSF 1706 (SD40-2 in BN Paint) and HLCX 3889 lead BNSF local, LCHI6571 (Centralia, IL to Paducah, KY) as it takes the switch onto CN;s P&I Branch on its way to the Paducah and Louisville Railway to perform interchange work at Paducah, KY.

It felt like this train would never arrive as I sat here at the junction for 4 hours this afternoon and in that time frame this is the only train that passed through here! It is the train that was to pick up the NB Southern unit for it’s return trip to Centralia, IL and I was planning to give chase on its way back north. It departed Centralia at 1:45pm, which was 121miles from Paducah, and only had to work two places so I figured it would be at Chiles by around 5, but it finally showed up at 7:38!

I was really bummed that it got in so late, but I also didn’t know that was going to tie down for the night here at Paducah, so it all worked out fine, just meant a second trip to get the move back north, from which you can see some of the images on my Facebook page or website.

Sometimes railfanning is like this! Patience and persistence are the keys!

Tech Info for each image is in that images caption: DJI Mavic Air 2 Drone, RAW, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/90, ISO 110.