CSXT 85 leads S991 as they cross the Gum Lick Trestle on a depressed flatbed at Kelly, Kentucky with an oversized load heading south on October 16th, 2024, on the CSX Henderson Subdivision. The load is traveling on KRL 204041, a Schnabel car with Red and Ready KRL 073 caboose trailing. According to Wikipedia: A Schnabel car or Schnabel wagon is a specialized type of railroad freight car. It is designed to carry heavy and oversized loads in such a way that the load makes up part of the car. The load is suspended between the two ends of the cars by lifting arms; the lifting arms are connected to an assembly of span bolsters that distribute the weight of the load and the lifting arm over many wheels. When a Schnabel car is empty, the two lifting arms are connected to one another and the car can usually operate at normal freight train speeds. Some Schnabel cars include hydraulic equipment that will either lift or horizontally shift the load while in transit (at very low speeds) to clear obstructions along the car's route. That is the case with this car as there was a crew on the caboose that shifted the load whenever necessary on meets or areas with close clearance. It was traveling at 25 mph on the mains and much slower through turnouts and switches. Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2500, ISO 140. #trainphotography #jimpearsonphotography #trending #csxt #bestsoldphotos

CSXT 85 leads S991 as they cross the Gum Lick Trestle on a depressed flatbed at Kelly, Kentucky

CSXT 85 leads S991 as they cross the Gum Lick Trestle on a depressed flatbed at Kelly, Kentucky with an oversized load heading south on October 16th, 2024, on the CSX Henderson Subdivision. The load is traveling on KRL 204041, a Schnabel car with Red and Ready KRL 073 caboose trailing.

According to Wikipedia: A Schnabel car or Schnabel wagon is a specialized type of railroad freight car. It is designed to carry heavy and oversized loads in such a way that the load makes up part of the car. The load is suspended between the two ends of the cars by lifting arms; the lifting arms are connected to an assembly of span bolsters that distribute the weight of the load and the lifting arm over many wheels.

When a Schnabel car is empty, the two lifting arms are connected to one another and the car can usually operate at normal freight train speeds. Some Schnabel cars include hydraulic equipment that will either lift or horizontally shift the load while in transit (at very low speeds) to clear obstructions along the car’s route.

That is the case with this car as there was a crew on the caboose that shifted the load whenever necessary on meets or areas with close clearance. It was traveling at 25 mph on the mains and much slower through turnouts and switches.

Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2500, ISO 140.

CSXT 85 leads S991 as they wait in the siding for CSX I128 with the Seaboard System Heritage Unit trailing second to pass them at the north end of Crofton, Ky, on October 16th, 2024, on the CSX Henderson Subdivision. CSX S991 has a depressed flatbed with an oversized load traveling on KRL 204041, a Schnabel car with Red and Ready KRL 073 caboose trailing. According to Wikipedia: A Schnabel car or Schnabel wagon is a specialized type of railroad freight car. It is designed to carry heavy and oversized loads in such a way that the load makes up part of the car. The load is suspended between the two ends of the cars by lifting arms; the lifting arms are connected to an assembly of span bolsters that distribute the weight of the load and the lifting arm over many wheels. When a Schnabel car is empty, the two lifting arms are connected to one another and the car can usually operate at normal freight train speeds. Some Schnabel cars include hydraulic equipment that will either lift or horizontally shift the load while in transit (at very low speeds) to clear obstructions along the car's route. That is the case with this car as there was a crew on the caboose that shifted the load whenever necessary on meets or areas with close clearance. It was traveling at 25 mph on the mains and much slower through turnouts and switches. Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2500, ISO 140. #trainphotography #jimpearsonphotography #trending #csxt #bestsoldphotos

SXT 85 leads S991 as they wait in the siding for CSX I128 with the Seaboard System Heritage Unit trailing…

CSXT 85 leads S991 as they wait in the siding for CSX I128 with the Seaboard System Heritage Unit trailing second to pass them at the north end of Crofton, Ky, on October 16th, 2024, on the CSX Henderson Subdivision. CSX S991 has a depressed flatbed with an oversized load traveling on KRL 204041, a Schnabel car with Red and Ready KRL 073 caboose trailing.

According to Wikipedia: A Schnabel car or Schnabel wagon is a specialized type of railroad freight car. It is designed to carry heavy and oversized loads in such a way that the load makes up part of the car. The load is suspended between the two ends of the cars by lifting arms; the lifting arms are connected to an assembly of span bolsters that distribute the weight of the load and the lifting arm over many wheels.

When a Schnabel car is empty, the two lifting arms are connected to one another and the car can usually operate at normal freight train speeds. Some Schnabel cars include hydraulic equipment that will either lift or horizontally shift the load while in transit (at very low speeds) to clear obstructions along the car’s route.

That is the case with this car as there was a crew on the caboose that shifted the load whenever necessary on meets or areas with close clearance. It was traveling at 25 mph on the mains and much slower through turnouts and switches.

Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2500, ISO 140.

CSX Q533 dropping cars off at New Johnsonville, Tennessee CSX Q533, with CSXT 3319 and 833 leading, pull past CSXT Operation Red Block Caboose 900068 (Cross Tracks Safely), after dropping a string of 27 cars off in the yard at New Johnsonville, Tennessee on the CSX Bruceton Subdivision during its daily run between Nashville and Memphis, TN. According to the CSX Website: Operation RedBlock is CSX's Drug and Alcohol Peer Prevention Program that is a union-initiated, management-supported program that uses peer involvement to prevent employee use of alcohol and/or drugs while on duty or subject to call. More than 3,000 operating employees at CSX are trained as prevention committee volunteers. Volunteers initiate activities and projects designed to educate co-workers about Operation RedBlock. Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2 Drone, RAW, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/400, ISO 100.

CSX Q533 dropping cars off at New Johnsonville, Tennessee

CSX Q533, with CSXT 3319 and 833 leading, pull past CSXT Operation Red Block Caboose 900068 (Cross Tracks Safely), after dropping a string of 27 cars off in the yard at New Johnsonville, Tennessee on the CSX Bruceton Subdivision during its daily run between Nashville and Memphis, TN.

According to the CSX Website: Operation RedBlock is CSX’s Drug and Alcohol Peer Prevention Program that is a union-initiated, management-supported program that uses peer involvement to prevent employee use of alcohol and/or drugs while on duty or subject to call. More than 3,000 operating employees at CSX are trained as prevention committee volunteers. Volunteers initiate activities and projects designed to educate co-workers about Operation RedBlock.

Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2 Drone, RAW, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/400, ISO 100.

B&O 185th Anniversary Caboose northbound at Princeton, Indiana Just something you don't see much these days is a caboose on the end of a train, such as here where the B&Q 185th Anniversary Caboose bringing up the rear of CSX Q0648 as it passes the signal at the north end of Dugger Siding at Princeton, Indiana on the CSX CE&D Subdivision on May 1st, 2021. I still remember as clear as day the times when this was an everyday occurrence and even manned with a crew, but today, it's a rare occurrence and almost never with a crew. Mostly they're in museums or used as shoving platforms for a crew when they're working a yard or industrial complex that requires the conductor to ride on the end of the train as the engine shoves the train. According to Wikipedia: A caboose is a manned North American railroad car coupled at the end of a freight train. Cabooses provide shelter for crew at the end of a train, who were formerly required in switching and shunting, keeping a lookout for load shifting, damage to equipment and cargo, and overheating axles. Originally flatcars fitted with cabins or modified box cars, they later became purpose-built with projections above or to the sides of the car to allow crew to observe the train from shelter. The caboose also served as the conductor's office, and on long routes included sleeping accommodations and cooking facilities. A similar railroad car, the brake van, was used on British and Commonwealth railways (the role has since been replaced by the crew car in Australia). On trains not fitted with continuous brakes, brake vans provided a supplementary braking system, and they helped keep chain couplings taut. Cabooses were used on every freight train in the United States until the 1980s, when safety laws requiring the presence of cabooses and full crews were relaxed. Developments in monitoring and safety technology, such as lineside defect detectors and end-of-train devices, resulted in crew reductions and the phasing out of caboose cars. Nowadays, they are generally only used on rail maintenance or hazardous materials trains, as a platform for crew on industrial spur lines when it is required to make long reverse movements, or on heritage and tourist railroads. Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2 Drone, RAW, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/800, ISO 100.

B&O 185th Anniversary Caboose northbound at Princeton, Indiana

Just something you don’t see much these days is a caboose on the end of a train, such as here where the B&Q 185th Anniversary Caboose bringing up the rear of CSX Q0648 as it passes the signal at the north end of Gibson Siding at Princeton, Indiana on the CSX CE&D Subdivision on May 1st, 2021.

I still remember as clear as day the times when this was an everyday occurrence and even manned with a crew, but today, it’s a rare occurrence and almost never with a crew. Mostly they’re in museums or used as shoving platforms for a crew when they’re working a yard or industrial complex that requires the conductor to ride on the end of the train as the engine shoves the train.

According to Wikipedia: A caboose is a manned North American railroad car coupled at the end of a freight train. Cabooses provide shelter for crew at the end of a train, who were formerly required in switching and shunting, keeping a lookout for load shifting, damage to equipment and cargo, and overheating axles.

Originally flatcars fitted with cabins or modified box cars, they later became purpose-built with projections above or to the sides of the car to allow crew to observe the train from shelter. The caboose also served as the conductor’s office, and on long routes included sleeping accommodations and cooking facilities.

A similar railroad car, the brake van, was used on British and Commonwealth railways (the role has since been replaced by the crew car in Australia). On trains not fitted with continuous brakes, brake vans provided a supplementary braking system, and they helped keep chain couplings taut.

Cabooses were used on every freight train in the United States until the 1980s, when safety laws requiring the presence of cabooses and full crews were relaxed. Developments in monitoring and safety technology, such as lineside defect detectors and end-of-train devices, resulted in crew reductions and the phasing out of caboose cars. Nowadays, they are generally only used on rail maintenance or hazardous materials trains, as a platform for crew on industrial spur lines when it is required to make long reverse movements, or on heritage and tourist railroads.

Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2 Drone, RAW, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/800, ISO 100.

KRL Caboose 072 bringing up the rear of CSX W991 at Hopkinsville, KY A GE employee looks out the door of Kasgro Rail Corporation (KRL) caboose 072 as CSX W991-29 heads north on the Henderson Subdivision at Casky Yard in Hopkinsville, Kentucky with a high and wide load for GE, on December 5th, 2020. Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Sigma 150-600 @ 600mm, f/6.3, 1/1000, ISO 450.

KRL Caboose 072 bringing up the rear of CSX W991 at Hopkinsville, KY

A GE employee looks out the door of Kasgro Rail Corporation (KRL) caboose 072 as CSX W991-29 heads north on the Henderson Subdivision at Casky Yard in Hopkinsville, Kentucky with a high and wide load for GE, on December 5th, 2020.

Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Sigma 150-600 @ 600mm, f/6.3, 1/1000, ISO 450.

September 18, 2018 – Not something you see every day! CSX Q500 came through…

September 18, 2018 – Not something you see every day! CSX Q500 came through this afternoon with a rare sight on the end of it! CSX 900401 Operation Red Block safety caboose! Here it’s pulling out of the siding at the north end of Slaughters, Ky as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad

CSXT 1543 and Chessie System Caboose at Evansville, IN…

November 4, 2017 – I’m amazed by what the camera can see that the eye doesn’t! When I pulled up to this spot with fellow railfan Ryan Scott, we both looked at the scene and man it’s dark!! I love how my full frame sensor captured all the ambient light and how it turned the slow moving clouds into almost what looks like the aurora borealis in some ways!!!

Here we see a CSXT 1543, a GP-15, tied to Chessie System Caboose 904138 on the City Lead that runs along next to Ohio Street in Evansville, Indiana. The set is used to work the industrial area around Berry Plastics and the caboose is used as the shoving platform.

ISO 100 for 30 seconds at f/6.3 with a Nikon 18mm lens on a Nikon D800.