NS 9927, CPKC 4614, and CSXT 4072 on B207, a northbound loaded Phosphate train, meets hot intermodal CSX I025 at the north end of the siding at Slaughters, Ky on February 15th, 2024, on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2500, ISO 110.
Kansas City Southern 4121 (Now CPKC) leads a Union Pacific train westbound out of the yard at Cheyenne, Wyoming on the Laramie Subdivision passing under the overpass for the Front Range Subdivision on March 18th, 2023 as it heads west.
Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Nikon 70-300 @70mm, f/5.6, 1/1000, ISO 320.
Newly painted and refurbished Canadian Pacific 5798 sits tied down in the Paducah and Louisville Railway Yard in Louisville, Kentucky on April 15th, 2023. The markings under the cab window are SD40-2 DRF-30. Not sure where it was rebuilt and what was done to it however, with the recent merger between the CP and KCS, the road name on this newly painted unit is now incorrect!
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1000 sec, ISO 130.
Digital Art – Canadian Pacific 8867 leads CSX V752 as it passed the depot at Thurmond West Virginia.
Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad 907 heads up the CN Fulton to Paducah local as it passes Canadian Pacific 7015 as it moves north through the Paducah and Louisville Railway yard at Paducah, Kentucky. It was on its way to pickup its train for the return trip to Fulton during its interchange work on the first day of winter, December 21, 2020.
Not sure what the Canadian Pacific 7015 Maroon and Gray Heritage Unit was doing at Paducah, but it made for a nice shot with the CN local
According to Wikipedia: “The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad (reporting mark BLE) is a class II railroad that operates in northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio.
The railroad’s main route runs from the Lake Erie port of Conneaut, Ohio to the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, a distance of 139 miles (224 km). The original rail ancestor of the B&LE, the Shenango and Allegheny Railroad, began operation in October 1869.
Rail operations were maintained continuously by various corporate descendants on the growing system that ultimately became the B&LE in 1900. In 2004 B&LE came under the ownership of the Canadian National Railway (CN) as part of CN’s larger purchase of holding company Great Lakes Transportation. B&LE is operated by CN as their Bessemer Subdivision.
As a subsidiary of CN, B&LE has been largely unchanged (though repainting of B&LE locomotives into CN paint with “BLE” sub-lettering began in April 2015[2]) and still does business as B&LE. B&LE locomotives, especially the former Southern Pacific SD40T-3 “Tunnel Motors”, have been scattered across the CN system; many are being used in the line that feeds most of B&LE’s traffic, the former Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range lines in Minnesota. The iron ore that originates on these lines is transloaded to ships at Two Harbors, Minnesota, then sent by ship to Conneaut, Ohio, where it is again transloaded to B&LE trains.
It is then taken down to steel mills in the Pittsburgh region, mainly to the blast furnaces at US Steel’s Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock, Pennsylvania, part of the Mon Valley Works.”
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2 Drone, RAW, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/640, ISO 100.
April 20, 2020 – Canadian Pacific 8044 leads an empty phosphate train past the north end of the siding at Slaughters, Kentucky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision.
March 26, 2020 – Canadian Pacific 9814 leads CSX K815-25, an empty Phosphate train, through the S curve at Nortonville, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision.
January 7, 2020 – CSX K443-06 (Chicago to Lawrenceville, GA), a Canadian Pacific loaded ethanol train, passes through the S Curve at Nortonville, Kentucky, with Canadian Pacific 8915, CP 8824 and CSX 5491 as power, as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision.
January 7, 2020 – CSX K443-06 (Chicago to Lawrenceville, GA), a Canadian Pacific loaded ethanol train, pulls onto the main from the Earlington Cutoff at Mortons Junction, with Canadian Pacific 8915, CP 8824 and CSX 5491 as power, as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision at Mortons Gap, Ky.
May 27, 2019 – Canadian Pacific 8867 pulls CSX V752-26 empty grain train westbound on the Kanawha Subdivision at Marmet, WV.
May 27, 2019 – Canadian Pacific 8867 pulls CSX V752-26 empty grain train westbound away from the Depot on the New River Subdivision at Thurmond, West Virginia. The line off to the right across the bridge is the RJ Corman West Virginia Line.
According to Wikipedia, Thurmond is a town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States, on the New River. The population was five at the 2010 census. During the heyday of coal mining in the New River Gorge, Thurmond was a prosperous town with a number of businesses and facilities for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. The town was the filming location for John Sayles’ 1987 movie Matewan since it still possesses many of the characteristics of a 1920s Appalachian coal town.
Today, much of Thurmond is owned by the National Park Service for the New River Gorge National River. The C&O passenger railway depot in town was renovated in 1995 and now functions as a Park Service visitor center. The entire town is a designated historic district on the National Register of Historic Places.
May 20, 2019 – CSX W990-12, with Canadian Pacific 8798, Canadian National 2550, CSXT 5312 and 3442 leading the way approaches Mortons Junction on the Henderson Subdivision at Mortons Gap, Ky as it heads north with a load of windmill motors and a long string of grain hoppers on the end of it’s train.
April 3, 2019 – CSX Q500-03, (Nashville, TN – Chicago, IL) with NS 7709 and CP 8799 leading, head past the signals at the south side of the Trident crossover on the Henderson Subdivision as they make their way north on the Henderson Subdivision. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad
March 5, 2018 – CSX Q647 heads south with two Canadian Pacific units trailing CSXT 7734, as it meets CSX W226 with all UP power, at the north end of Slaughters, Kentucky on the Henderson Subdivision.
January 29, 2017 – Canadian Pacific 8632 leads a eastbound Norfolk Southern empty coal train as it moves into the siding at Taswell, In.
January 29, 2017 – Canadian Pacific 8632 leads a eastbound Norfolk Southern empty coal train as it takes the siding at Taswell, In as the last light of the day fades from the sky.
December 26, 2016 – The engineer on CSX K443 gives a wave from the cab of Canadian Pacific 9644 as he makes his way south on the Henderson Subdivision through Mortons Gap, Ky under stormy skies.
January 6, 2016 – The warm light of the late afternoon sun shines on SOO 6037, CP Units 6241 & 2218 and PAL 4511 as they set in the engine service facility at CSX’s Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, Ky. – Tech Info: 1/2000 | f/2.8 | ISO 140 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 52mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
July 10, 2015 – CSX Q443, with Canadian Pacific 9648 in the lead, makes it’s way at dusk through Romney siding at Nortonville, Ky with it’s loaded ethanol train as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/640sec, f/3.5, ISO 4000, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 31mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.