A Fracht Caboose brings up the rear on Norfolk Southern 9730 as it leads CSX S991 with an oversized Turbine load from Siemens Energy on a depressed flatbed northbound from Evansville, Indiana, on the CSX Evansville Terminal Subdivision, on March 20th, 2024.
B229 originated at Birmingham, AL and is headed for New Castle, PA. I caught this move just north of Evansville, IN and gave chase to Patoka, Indiana.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1250, ISO 100.
Norfolk Southern 9730 leads CSX S991 with an oversized Turbine load from Siemens Energy on a depressed flatbed northbound from the north end of Harwood at Evansville, Indiana, on the CSX Evansville Terminal Subdivision, on March 20th, 2024.
B229 originated at Birmingham, AL and is headed for New Castle, PA. I caught this move just north of Evansville, IN and gave chase to Patoka, Indiana.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1250, ISO 130.
CSX I025 passes over Franklin Street, with the steeples from St Boniface Catholic Church in the background as they head south into Howell Yard at Evansville, Indiana on February 17th, 2024, on the Evansville Terminal Subdivision.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/3200, ISO 100.
A string of Paducah and Louisville locomotives, with one Evansville Western Railway unit, pulls a long string of empty coal cars out of the loop at the Calvert City Terminal as they prepare to head south to Paducah, Kentucky on May 8th, 2023.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1250, ISO 100.
Day 3 of 10 – Photography/Art Challenge
My Railroad Photography as Art
My niece Kelly R Gates has nominated me to share my artwork for 10 days and to nominate another artist to do the same. My take on this challenge is to create what I consider photographic Art pieces from some of my railroad photography.
Now, I realize there are now AI programs out there these days that can create just about any type of art pieces for you with just words, but as most of you know I’m a visual person and all the pieces I post over the next 10 days will be created in Photoshop by me from photographs I have shot, not with AI Software.
I know that this type of art isn’t for everyone, but I do like to get outside the box and my comfort zone from time to time, as I think it’s good for my creative eye. I’d appreciate your constructive thoughts and comments!
For today’s digital photographic art piece, I’ve selected one of my favorites I’ve done of CSX Q512 pulling to a stop at the north end of CSX Howell Yard in Evansville for a crew change before heading on north, as dusk falls over the yard on New Year’s Day, January 1st, 2021.
On Day 3 I nominate fellow railfan photographer Fred Guenther to share his art (whatever type he wants to share) ~ I know he has plenty as he hopefully joins in on the 10-day art challenge!!!!
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2 Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/120, ISO 400.Available for purchase in my store at https://pixels.com/featured/sunset-arrival-of-northbound-csx-q512-01-jim-pearson.html
They say what you do on the first day of the New Year you’ll continue to do till the next New Year and so of course I spent the day chasing trains around the Evansville, Indiana area.
Here we find the crew on CSX Q512 as they pull to a stop at the north end of CSX Howell Yard in Evansville as they prepare to conduct a crew change before heading on north, as dusk falls over the yard on New Years day, January 1st, 2021.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2 Drone, RAW, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/120, ISO 400.
July 21, 2020 – CSX K815-19 with CP 7021 has it stopped at Howell Yard in Evansville, Indiana with a potash train, where it dropped off all its cars, changed crews and picked up a load of mixed freight before continuing it’s run south on the Henderson Subdivision. This was my first catch of one of these units!
Canadian Pacific unveiled 5 of these specially painted locomotives in November of 2019 on Remembrance Day in Canada and Veterans Day in the U.S. honoring the culture and history of the armed forces. The five Electro-Motive Diesel SD70ACUs will take the message of military pride across the CP system.
CP 7020 wears North Atlantic Treaty Organization green, which the Canadian and U.S. armies apply to fighting vehicles and equipment serving in temperate climates.
CP 7021 wears the sand colour that the Canadian and U.S. armies apply to fighting vehicles and equipment serving in arid climates.
CP 7022 wears the grey, red and black colour pattern of modern Canadian and American warships.
CP 7023 wears a two-tone gray paint scheme designed after the livery applied to Canadian and American fighter jets.
CP 6644 wears the camouflage colours applied to Royal Canadian Air Force “Spitfire” fighter planes flown at the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944.
Tech Info: Full Frame Nikon D800, RAW, Sigma 150-600 @ 350mm, f/5.6, 1/500, ISO 400.
October 5, 2019 – A Loaded E319 takes on fuel on Ohio Street, just north of Howell Yard in Evansville, Indiana as a Evansville Western Railway crew brings it off their line. Their train it will be tied down in the siding at Harwood, on the Evansville Terminal Subdivision, as it waits for a fresh crew that will take it on north as a N319 (N319 Evansville, IN (EVWR) – Cross, SC). Most coal trains head south from Evansville, but I’m told that some have started going north, bound for the east coast for export overseas. Not sure if they’re being rerouted due to weather or construction.