After just finishing setting out a bad order car at Casky, CSXT 50th Anniversary of Operation Lifesaver locomotive 4568 leads G412, as it pulls north from Casky Yard at Hopkinsville, Kentucky on May 10th, 2023, on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1000, ISO 130.
CSX M512 pulls past L392 with a load of MOW equipment, as they pull into the south end of CSX Casky yard to perform a pickup of truck frames at Hopkinsville, Kentucky on May 6th, 2023, on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1250, ISO 100.
CSX 8882 leads rail train W010 as it passes the old Louisville and Nashville Railroad Depot at Madisonville, Kentucky on April 17th, 2023, as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision.
This depot was originally dedicated in 1929 and last saw passenger service about 1968 when L&N built an office at Atkinson Yard in Madisonville and the passenger train service was moved to that location. Currently the station is owned by the city of Madisonville and houses one of the hubs of the Kentucky Innovation Stations, which helps courageous entrepreneurs, creative business founders, high-growth startups, working on their own success stories.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1600 sec, ISO 170.
CSXT 3200 and BCRAIL 4648 lead CSX B744, a combined empty ethanol and coal train, pass through the the south end of CSX Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, Ky on April 3rd, 2023, as they head north on the Henderson Subdivision.
According to Wikipedia: BC Rail is a railway in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Chartered as a private company in 1912 as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, it was acquired by the provincial government in 1918. In 1972 it was renamed to the British Columbia Railway, and in 1984 it took on its present name of BC Rai and is currently owned by CN.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 100.
This week’s Saturday Infrared photo is of CSX M647 as it passes through the S curve at Nortonville, Ky as they head south on the CSX Henderson Subdivision on May 2nd, 2023. This train runs daily between Clearing Yard at Chicago, IL, and Rice Yard at Waycross, GA.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Sigma 24-70mm @32mm, f/5, 1/500, ISO 200.
CSX I029 crosses over the bridge at Red River at Adams, Tennessee, as they head south on the Henderson Subdivision, on May 10thth, 2023, on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 120.
CSX M512 passes through downtown Pembroke, Kentucky as it heads north on May 6th, 2023, on the CSX Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 100.
CSXT 894 leads CSX M512 (From Radnor Yard at Nashville, TN – Avon, IN) as it passes through the north end of Latham siding with a load of truck frames for Toyota behind the power at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, as they make their way north on April 5th, 2023, along the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Sigma 150-600 @ 150mm, f/5.6, 1/320, ISO 450.
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This week’s Saturday Infrared photo is of CSX G402, an empty grain train, as it rounds the curve heading into Mortons Gap, Kentucky on the Henderson Subdivision on May 2nd, 2023. This train runs as needed between Waycross, GA and Evansville, IN.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 70-250mm @92mm, f/5, 1/500, ISO 200.
Loaded Phosphate train CSX B225 (Mulberry, FL – Cicero, IL) heads north across the Sulfur Fork Bridge at Springfield, Tennessee, as BNSF 6213 leads the way on the Henderson Subdivision on May 10th, 2023.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO 120.
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The conductor on CSXT G412, 50th Anniversary of Operation Lifesaver locomotive 4568, does a roll by inspection of loaded coal train, C904 as it pulls into the north end of the siding at Kelly, Kentucky on May 10th, 2023, on the Henderson Subdivision.
CSX C904 pulled all the way into the siding to allow the southbound local, L391, to pull in behind him so G412 could continue its move north.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1000, ISO 140.
CSXT 3194, Honoring our Law Enforcement Locomotive, is dwarfed by the coal pile at Calvert City Terminal, as it leads a loaded coal train into the loop, next to the Tennessee River, at Calvert City, Kentucky, on May 8th, 2023.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1000, ISO 130.
CSX a southbound loaded coal train, C031, pulls under the Paducah and Louisville Railway, just south of East Diamond at Madisonville, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision Cuttoff, on April 28th, 2023.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 100.
This week’s Saturday Infrared photo is of CSX M512 headed north at Nortonville, Ky on the CSX Henderson Subdivision on May 2nd, 2023. This train runs daily between Radnor Yard in Nashville, TN and Avon, IN and normally works at Works Casky yard at Hopkinsville, KY, Howell Yard in Evansville, IN, and Princeton, IN. Its daily counterpart is M513.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24mm @18mm, f/6.3, 1/250, ISO 200.
CSX I025 heads south at Kelly, Kentucky, where it meets M648 in the siding with the third unit being newly rebuilt Metra 506, dead in tow on the Henderson Subdivision, waiting to move on north to Chicago, Illinois, on May 25th, 2023.
According to The Diesel Shop website this unit is a SD70MAC that was rebuilt by Progress Rail. It is one of 14 units being rebuilt by Progress with AC traction, geared for 80 mph, HEP, microprocessor-control braking and Tier 3 emissions.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 100.
CSX 3314 leads I025 south after recently exiting Baker Tunnel at Ridgetop, Tennessee on May 6th, 2023, on the Henderson Subdivision. This train carries a string of autoracks filled with Tesla’s in addition to its normal train of intermodal containers as it makes its way to Jacksonville, Florida from Chicago, Illinois.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 100.
CSXT 3194, Honoring our Law Enforcement Locomotive, leads a loaded coal train into the loop at Calvert City Terminal, next to the Tennessee River, on a beautiful spring day at Calvert City, Kentucky, on May 8th, 2023.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1250, ISO 100.
This week’s Saturday Infrared photo is of CSX X513 headed south off the cutoff at Mortons Junction, onto the Henderson Subdivision on April 12th, 2023 with the 50th Anniversary Operation Lifesaver Locomotive 4569 leading..
According to a CSX press release: CSX unveiled a new OLI rail safety commemorative locomotive in September of 2022, and it was painted at the railroads locomotive shop in Huntington, West Virginia. The CSXT 4568 engine will travel the company’s rail network as a visual reminder for the public to be safe at highway-rail grade crossings and near railroad tracks.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 70-250mm @113mm, f/5, 1/500, ISO 400.
CSX B244, an empty potash train waits in the siding at the north end of Kelly, Kentucky on the CSX Henderson Subdivision, on March 31st, 2023, as loaded coal train passes him on the main headed south. CSX B244 is a fairly new, as-needed potash train off the CP that runs between Chicago, IL and Tampa, FL. The power on this move is CSX 3443, KCS 4728, CP 8933 and CP 8021.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1000, ISO 140.
Digital Photo Art – CSX Intermodal, I028, passes signals at the north end of Latham at Hopkinsville, Ky on April 5th, 2023, as the hot intermodal heads north on the CSX Henderson Subdivision in a light rain.
Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Sigma 150-600mm @ 450mm, f/6, 1/500, ISO 720.
CSX X513 passes over Gum Lick Trestle, between Crofton and Robards, Ky, with the CSX Operation Lifesaver 50th Anniversary locomotive CSXT 4568 leading, as they make their way south on the Henderson Subdivision on April 12th, 2023.
According to a CSX press release: CSX unveiled a new OLI rail safety commemorative locomotive in September of 2022, and it was painted at the railroads locomotive shop in Huntington, West Virginia. The CSXT 4568 engine will travel the companys rail network as a visual reminder for the public to be safe at highway-rail grade crossings and near railroad tracks.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1000, ISO 100.