In this week’s Saturday Infrared photo, we catch CSX 3329 and 108 leading a northbound M512 as they approach the north end of the siding at Crofton, Ky on April 6th, 2024, on the CSX Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24mm @ 10mm, f/5.6, 1/340, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared Photo, we catch CSX local L391 as it heads north out of Mortons Gap, Kentucky on March 26th, 2024, on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Sigma 150-600 @ 320mm, f/5.6, 1/210, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared Photo, we catch CSX intermodal I128 as it pulls under the highway 41 overpass at Mortons Gap, Kentucky on March 26th, 2024, on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Sigma 150-600 @ 240mm, f/5.6, 1/125, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared Photo, CSXT 3177 leads M647 south from the north end of Kelly, Kentucky with a long string of Bradly Fighting Vehicles on the Henderson Subdivision on March 19th, 2024.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24 @ 24mm, f/5.6, 1/850, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared Photo, CSXT 3261 leads intermodal train, I128, around the curve at the north end of Kelly, Kentucky, on the Henderson Subdivision as they head north on March 3rd, 2024.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 70-300 @ 100mm, f/5.6, 1/250, ISO 400.
This week’s Saturday Infrared photo was captured on October 20th, 2023, as the crew on Denver and Rio Grande Western 168 rounded a curve with a freight train at the Big Horn Wye during a recent photo charter, between Antonito and Osier, Colorado.
According to their website: the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad is a National Historic Landmark. At 64-miles in length, it is the longest, the highest and most authentic steam railroad in North America, traveling through some of the most spectacular scenery in the Rocky Mountain West.
Owned by the states of Colorado and New Mexico, the train crosses state borders 11 times, zigzagging along canyon walls, burrowing through two tunnels, and steaming over 137-foot Cascade Trestle. All trains steam along through deep forests of aspens and evergreens, across high plains filled with wildflowers, and through a rocky gorge of remarkable geologic formations. Deer, antelope, elk, fox, eagles and even bear are frequently spotted on this family friendly, off-the grid adventure.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24mm @ 10mm, f/5.6, 1/340, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared Photo, CSXT 5351 leads intermodal train, I128, past the old Louisville and Nashville (L&N) Railroad Depot. on the Henderson Subdivision as they head north on February 21st, 2024.
According to Wikipedia: “The L&N Railroad Depot in the Hopkinsville Commercial Historic District of Hopkinsville, Kentucky is a historic railroad station on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in 1892.
The year 1832 saw the first of many attempts to woo a railroad to Hopkinsville. This first attempt was to connect Hopkinsville to Eddyville, Kentucky. In 1868 Hopkinsville finally obtained a railroad station, operated by the Evansville, Henderson, & Nashville Railroad. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad acquired the railroad in 1879.
The Hopkinsville depot is a single-story frame building with a slate roof. It has six rooms: A Ladies Waiting room (the room closest to the street), a General Waiting Room, a Colored Waiting Room, a baggage room (the furthest room from the street), a ticket office (the only room which connected to all three waiting rooms), and a ladies’ restroom. Immediately outside were warehouses for freight, usually tobacco.
Its last long-distance (passenger) train was the Louisville and Nashville’s Georgian, last operating in 1968.
During its operating years, the Hopkinsville depot was a popular layover spot for those traveling by train. It was the only Louisville & Nashville station between Evansville, Indiana and Nashville, Tennessee where it was legal to drink alcohol. Hopkinsville got the nickname “Hop town” due to train passengers asking the conductors when they would arrive at Hopkinsville, so they could “hop off and get a drink”.
The Hopkinsville L&N Railroad Depot was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 1, 1975. CSX, which bought out the Louisville & Nashville, still run trains on the tracks next to the depot, but do not stop.”
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24 @ 10mm, f/5.6, 1/340, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared Photo, we catch CSX intermodal I128 as it climbs the hill out of Mortons Junction as it heads north on January 17th, 2024, on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 70-300 @ 220mm, f/5.6, 1/600, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared Photo, we catch CSST 3279 leading M513 south as it sits at Romney waiting to meet CSX I128 at Nortonville, Ky, on January 17th, 2024, on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Sigma 150-600 @ 440mm, f/6.3, 1/240, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared Photo, we catch CSX local L391 as it heads north through Mortons Gap, Ky, on January 17th, 2024, on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24 @ 10mm, f/5.6, 1/600, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared photo, we catch Durango and Silverton steam locomotive 493 as it out of Silverton, Colorado on October 15th, 2023, bound for Durango.
According to Wikipedia: The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, often abbreviated as the D&SNG, is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge heritage railroad that operates on 45.2 mi (72.7 km) of track between Durango and Silverton, in the U.S. state of Colorado. The railway is a federally designated National Historic Landmark and was also designated by the American Society of Civil Engineers as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1968.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24mm @ 24mm, f/5.6, 1/850, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared photo, we find Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad steam locomotive 463 as it conducts a boiler blowdown as it leads a freight over the Cascade Trestle as it heads west, out of Antonito, Colorado, during a photo charter by Dak Dillon Photography on October 19th, 2023.
A blowdown is a way to get minerals and other contaminants out of the locomotive system. Engines want to be on a bridge or trestle because the blow down itself can reach 30+ feet at an angle away from the firebox with live steam.
According to their website: the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad is a National Historic Landmark. At 64-miles in length, it is the longest, the highest and most authentic steam railroad in North America, traveling through some of the most spectacular scenery in the Rocky Mountain West.
Owned by the states of Colorado and New Mexico, the train crosses state borders 11 times, zigzagging along canyon walls, burrowing through two tunnels, and steaming over 137-foot Cascade Trestle. All trains steam along through deep forests of aspens and evergreens, across high plains filled with wildflowers, and through a rocky gorge of remarkable geologic formations. Deer, antelope, elk, fox, eagles and even bear are frequently spotted on this family friendly, off-the grid adventure.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm, f/5.6, 1/420, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared photo, we catch Durango and Silverton steam locomotive 473 at Rockwood, Colorado as it runs engine light back to Durango after performing helper duty on train bound for Silverton, on October 15th, 2023.
According to Wikipedia: The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, often abbreviated as the D&SNG, is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge heritage railroad that operates on 45.2 mi (72.7 km) of track between Durango and Silverton, in the U.S. state of Colorado. The railway is a federally designated National Historic Landmark and was also designated by the American Society of Civil Engineers as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1968.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 70-300 @ 70mm, f/5.6, 1/400, ISO 400.
This week’s Saturday Infrared photo is of Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad 168 as it climbs upgrade just outside of Osier, Colorado, on a recent photo charter by Dak Dillon Photography on October 20th, 2023.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24 @ 24mm, f/5.6, 1/1250, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared Photo – Pere Marquette 1225 heads out of Owosso, Michigan pulling the morning North Pole Express excursion train that runs between Owosso and to the Village of Ashley, MI for their Country Christmas, on December 17th, 2023.
According to their website, Pere Marquette 1225, the largest and most impressive piece in the Steam Railroading Institute’s collection, is one of the largest operating steam locomotives in Michigan. The 1225 was built in October of 1941 by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio for the Pere Marquette Railway. It’s part of the National Register of Historic Structures and is renowned for its role in the 2004 Warner Brothers Christmas Classic, THE POLAR EXPRESS™. 1225’s blueprints were used as the prototype for the locomotive image as well as its sounds to bring the train in the animated film to life!
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24 @ 15mm, f/5.6, 1/40, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared photo, we catch Durango and Silverton steam locomotive 493 as it prepares to depart from Silverton, Colorado on October 15th, 2023.
According to Wikipedia: The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, often abbreviated as the D&SNG, is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge heritage railroad that operates on 45.2 mi (72.7 km) of track between Durango and Silverton, in the U.S. state of Colorado. The railway is a federally designated National Historic Landmark and was also designated by the American Society of Civil Engineers as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1968.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 70-300 @ 127mm, f/5.6, 1/950, ISO 400.
This week’s Saturday Infrared photo is of Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad 168 as it pulls a small train across a small bridge at Lower Whiplash, as it heads for Osier, Colorado, on a recent photo charter by Dak Dillon Photography on October 20th, 2023.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24 @ 16mm, f/5.6, 1/300, ISO 400.
This week’s Saturday Infrared photo is of Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad steam locomotive D&RGW 463 as it approaches Mud Tunnel at milepost 311.3 as it returns to Antonito from Osier, Colorado, during a photo charter by Dak Dillon Photography on October 19th, 2023.
According to their website: the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad is a National Historic Landmark. At 64-miles in length, it is the longest, the highest and most authentic steam railroad in North America, traveling through some of the most spectacular scenery in the Rocky Mountain West.
Owned by the states of Colorado and New Mexico, the train crosses state borders 11 times, zigzagging along canyon walls, burrowing through two tunnels, and steaming over 137-foot Cascade Trestle. All trains steam along through deep forests of aspens and evergreens, across high plains filled with wildflowers, and through a rocky gorge of remarkable geologic formations. Deer, antelope, elk, fox, eagles and even bear are frequently spotted on this family friendly, off-the grid adventure.
According to History Colorado Website: Built in 1903 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Engine No. 463 is one of only two remaining locomotives of the K-27 series originally built for and operated by the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad.
The K-27 series was a departure from the design most prevalent on Colorado’s narrow-gauge lines, resulting in a locomotive with one and one-half times more power. The arrival of this series marked a significant turning point in the operation of the D&RGW’s narrow gauge lines that was to remain in effect until the end of Class I narrow gauge steam locomotion in 1968. The Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad restored the engine to operating condition.
Tech Info: Nikon D810, RAW, Nikon 10-24 @24mm, f/5.6, 1/220, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared photo, we catch Denver and Rio Grande Western steam locomotive 168 as it pulls through a grove of Aspens, on October 20th, 2023on its way to Osier, Colorado on the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad.
According to their website: the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad is a National Historic Landmark. At 64-miles in length, it is the longest, the highest and most authentic steam railroad in North America, traveling through some of the most spectacular scenery in the Rocky Mountain West.
According to Wikipedia: Denver and Rio Grande Western No. 168 is a class “T-12” 4-6-0 “Ten-Wheeler” type narrow-gauge steam railway locomotive. It is one of twelve similar locomotives built for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1883. It was built as a passenger locomotive, with 46 in (1,200 mm) drivers, the largest drivers used on any three-foot gauge D&RGW locomotive. The large drivers made it suitable for relatively fast passenger service.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24 @ 20mm, f/5.6, 1/900, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared photo, we catch Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad steam locomotive D&RGW 463 as it pulls out of Mud Tunnel at MP 311.3, between Antonito and Osier, Colorado, during a photo charter by Dak Dillon Photography on October 19th, 2023.
According to their website: the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad is a National Historic Landmark. At 64-miles in length, it is the longest, the highest and most authentic steam railroad in North America, traveling through some of the most spectacular scenery in the Rocky Mountain West.
Owned by the states of Colorado and New Mexico, the train crosses state borders 11 times, zigzagging along canyon walls, burrowing through two tunnels, and steaming over 137-foot Cascade Trestle. All trains steam along through deep forests of aspens and evergreens, across high plains filled with wildflowers, and through a rocky gorge of remarkable geologic formations. Deer, antelope, elk, fox, eagles and even bear are frequently spotted on this family friendly, off-the grid adventure.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24 @ 17mm, f/5.6, 1/1250, ISO 400.
In this week’’s Saturday Infrared photo, we find Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad steam locomotive 463 as it conducts a boiler blowdown as it leads a freight over the Cascade Trestle as it heads west, out of Antonito, Colorado, during a photo charter by Dak Dillon Photography on October 19th, 2023.
A blowdown is a way to get minerals and other contaminants out of the locomotive system. Engines want to be on a bridge or trestle because the blow down itself can reach 30+ feet at an angle away from the firebox with live steam.
According to their website: the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad is a National Historic Landmark. At 64-miles in length, it is the longest, the highest and most authentic steam railroad in North America, traveling through some of the most spectacular scenery in the Rocky Mountain West.
Owned by the states of Colorado and New Mexico, the train crosses state borders 11 times, zigzagging along canyon walls, burrowing through two tunnels, and steaming over 137-foot Cascade Trestle. All trains steam along through deep forests of aspens and evergreens, across high plains filled with wildflowers, and through a rocky gorge of remarkable geologic formations. Deer, antelope, elk, fox, eagles and even bear are frequently spotted on this family friendly, off-the grid adventure.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm, f/5.6, 1/350, ISO 400.