CSXT 3365 leads M513 as it creeps across the Patoka River at Patoka, Indiana at less that 10mph, due to a bad order car, toward the rear of its over 10,000-foot train as it heads south on the CSX CE&D subdivision on October 20th, 2022, in this cropped to a vertical drone photo. Note that the drone was up and out of the way before the train even got close to the end of the bridge. The train sat out the bad car at Princeton, Indiana and continued its way to its destination at Radnor Yard in Nashville, TN. Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2 Drone, RAW, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 110. #trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #dronephotography #trainphotographer #railroadphotographer #jimpearsonphotography #indianarailroads #trainsfromtheair

CSXT 3365 leads M513 as it creeps across the Patoka River at Patoka, Indiana

CSXT 3365 leads M513 as it creeps across the Patoka River at Patoka, Indiana at less that 10mph, due to a bad order car, toward the rear of its over 10,000-foot train as it heads south on the CSX CE&D subdivision on October 20th, 2022, in this cropped to a vertical drone photo.

Note that the drone was up and out of the way before the train even got close to the end of the bridge. The train sat out the bad car at Princeton, Indiana and continued its way to its destination at Radnor Yard in Nashville, TN.

Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2 Drone, RAW, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 110.

CSX M500 approaches the north side of the Ohio River Bridge at Henderson, Kentucky, as the early morning sunrise casts long shadows, on October 13th, 2022, as the train makes its way south up the viaduct at Rahm, Indiana over the floodplain on the Henderson Subdivision. Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO 110. #trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #dronephotography #trainphotographer #railroadphotographer #jimpearsonphotography

CSX M513 approaches the north side of the Ohio River Bridge at Henderson, Kentucky

CSX M513 approaches the north side of the Ohio River Bridge at Henderson, Kentucky, as the early morning sunrise casts long shadows, on October 13th, 2022, as the train makes its way south up the viaduct at Rahm, Indiana over the floodplain on the Henderson Subdivision.

Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO 110.

Close but no cigar! Many of you here know I've been trying to catch two trains at this location called Monarch here in Madisonville, Ky for a long time now, where the Paducah and Louisville Railway (PAL) crosses over the CSX Henderson Subdivision (HD) and I almost did today, October 14th, 2022. On the lower track off in the distance sits CSX M502, a mixed fright that runs from Radnor Yard at Nashville, TN to Clearing Yard, in Chicago, IL, and was told by dispatch to stop short of the crossings through downtown Madisonville as they needed to wait on a southbound at the location know as Arklow. The southbound was still about 15 minutes out and they didn’t want 502 to block all the crossings through downtown. I setup to get him passing under the Paducah and Louisville Railway when I heard a train blowing the crossing about 3 miles away about 15 minutes into 502’s wait! I had hoped dispatch would give him a signal to move during the time that this empty CSXT 294 appeared leading an empty coke train northbound on the PAL (in YN2 Paint even) arrived or was passing through on its way back from unloading at the Calvert City Terminal at Calvert City, KY. I was hoping it was a PAL train, but these days I’ll take whatever I can get! Well as you can see, M502 sat still on the HD, as the scene basked in the early morning fall light, and never moved at all until about 1 minute after this train cleared Monarch! It happens and I still love the resulting picture but isn’t what I wanted and of course I plan to keep trying! Persistence will pay off! Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 100. #trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #dronephotography #trainphotographer #railroadphotographer #jimpearsonphotography #csxce&dsubdivison

Close but no cigar! Many of you here know I’ve been trying to catch two trains at this location…

Close but no cigar! Many of you here know I’ve been trying to catch two trains at this location called Monarch here in Madisonville, Ky for a long time now, where the Paducah and Louisville Railway (PAL) crosses over the CSX Henderson Subdivision (HD) and I almost did today, October 14th, 2022.

On the lower track off in the distance sits CSX M502, a mixed fright that runs from Radnor Yard at Nashville, TN to Clearing Yard, in Chicago, IL, and was told by dispatch to stop short of the crossings through downtown Madisonville as they needed to wait on a southbound at the location know as Arklow. The southbound was still about 15 minutes out and they didn’t want 502 to block all the crossings through downtown.

I setup to get him passing under the Paducah and Louisville Railway when I heard a train blowing the crossing about 3 miles away about 15 minutes into 502’s wait! I had hoped dispatch would give him a signal to move during the time that this empty CSXT 294 appeared leading an empty coke train northbound on the PAL (in YN2 Paint even) arrived or was passing through on its way back from unloading at the Calvert City Terminal at Calvert City, KY. I was hoping it was a PAL train, but these days I’ll take whatever I can get!

Well as you can see, M502 sat still on the HD, as the scene basked in the early morning fall light, and never moved at all until about 1 minute after this train cleared Monarch! It happens and I still love the resulting picture but isn’t what I wanted and of course I plan to keep trying! Persistence will pay off!

Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 100.

Sunlight steams down from the early morning stormy skies as CSX M513 makes its way through downtown Madisonville, Kentucky southbound on the Henderson Subdivision on October 12th, 2022, with fall color beginning to dot the landscape. Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2 Drone, RAW, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/1500, ISO 110. #trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #dronephotography #trainphotographer #railroadphotographer #jimpearsonphotography

CSX M513 makes its way through downtown Madisonville, Kentucky just after sunrise

Sunlight steams down from the early morning stormy skies as CSX M513 makes its way through downtown Madisonville, Kentucky southbound on the Henderson Subdivision on October 12th, 2022, with fall color beginning to dot the landscape.

Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2 Drone, RAW, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/1500, ISO 110.

CSX action on the Henderson and Mainline Subdivisions between October 2nd and 4th, 2022

Oct 8, 2022 October 8th, 2022 – In today’s edited video we catch CSX action on the Henderson and Mainline Subdivisions showing CSX I026, M503, I025, L391, C319, M587, L412, I141 and M574 as they work along these two Subdivisions between October 2nd and the 4th, 2022, including the CSX OCS power and cars on I026. Thanks for watching! Don’t forget to Subscribe and Ring the Notification Bell so you won’t miss any of my future videos! Have a blessed day everyone!!
CSX B207, a combined Phosphate and Ethanol train, heads north down the viaduct from the Ohio River at Henderson, KY to Evansville, IN at dawn as its headlight lights the way on the CSX Henderson Subdivision with its train on September 22, 2022, the first day of autumn! Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/6th second, ISO 1190. #trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #dronephotography #trainphotographer #railroadphotographer #jimpearsonphotography #csxhendersonsubdivison

CSX B207, a combined Phosphate and Ethanol train at Rahm, Indiana

CSX B207, a combined Phosphate and Ethanol train, heads north down the viaduct from the Ohio River at Henderson, KY to Evansville, IN at dawn as its headlight lights the way on the CSX Henderson Subdivision with its train on September 22, 2022, the first day of autumn!

Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/6th second, ISO 1190.

CSX Honoring our Law Enforcement locomotive 3194 leads M648 north across Gum Lick Trestle, between Kelly and Crofton, Kentucky, as the first signs of fall begin to show in the trees as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision on September 26th, 2022. Gum Lick is the highest trestle on the Henderson Subdivision, which runs between Nashville, TN and Evansville, IN. Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 110. #trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #dronephotography #trainphotographer #railroadphotographer #jimpearsonphotography

CSX Honoring our Law Enforcement locomotive 3194 at Gum Lick Trestle, Kelly, KY

CSX Honoring our Law Enforcement locomotive 3194 leads M648 north across Gum Lick Trestle, between Kelly and Crofton, Kentucky, as the first signs of fall begin to show in the trees as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision on September 26th, 2022. Gum Lick is the highest trestle on the Henderson Subdivision, which runs between Nashville, TN and Evansville, IN.

Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 110.

CSX hot intermodal I025 climbs the viaduct out of Evansville, Indiana on the Henderson Subdivision on a beautiful summer morning as it heads south on July 14th, 2022. The viaduct rises up over the Ohio River flood plane out of Evansville where the trackage crosses over the river into Kentucky at Henderson. During a heavy rainy season, the river can swell to where all the farm fields visible here often get covered by floodwaters. Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 100. #trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #dronephotography #trainphotographer #railroadphotographer #jimpearsonphotography

CSX hot intermodal I025 climbs the viaduct out of Evansville, Indiana

CSX hot intermodal I025 climbs the viaduct out of Evansville, Indiana on the Henderson Subdivision on a beautiful summer morning as it heads south on July 14th, 2022. The viaduct rises up over the Ohio River flood plane out of Evansville where the trackage crosses over the river into Kentucky at Henderson. During a heavy rainy season, the river can swell to where all the farm fields visible here often get covered by floodwaters.

Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 100.

CSXT 7018 leads a empty phosphate train north at Arklow in Madisonville, KY on May 17th, 2022, as CSXT 911 leading B420, a northbound empty coke train, waits with an empty coke train after dropping off its load at Calvert City Terminal at Calvert City, Ky on the Paducah and Louisville Railway. CSXT 911 is one of several specialty painted units that CSX has painted in the last few years and this unit honors First Responders. Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Sigma 150-600mm @ 400mm, f/6, 1/640, ISO 220. #trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #jimpearsonphotography #trainphotographer

CSXT 7018 leads a empty phosphate train north at Arklow in Madisonville, KY past CSX 811

CSXT 7018 leads a empty phosphate train north at Arklow in Madisonville, KY on May 17th, 2022, as CSXT 911 leading B420, a northbound empty coke train, waits with an empty coke train after dropping off its load at Calvert City Terminal at Calvert City, Ky on the Paducah and Louisville Railway.

CSXT 911 is one of several specialty painted units that CSX has painted in the last few years and this unit honors First Responders.

Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Sigma 150-600mm @ 400mm, f/6, 1/640, ISO 220.

UP 5970 leads CSX S988 as it heads south at Anaconda at Robards, Kentucky with two new Brightline Green and Pink commuter train sets, as they head for Florida, on the Henderson Subdivision on July 16th, 2022. These train sets were built by Siemens in Sacramento, California and are destined for service along Brightline’s routes in Florida. According to Wikipedia: Brightline is a privately run intercity rail route between Miami and West Palm Beach, Florida that runs on track owned by Florida East Coast Railway. An extension from West Palm Beach to Orlando International Airport is expected to open in 2023. Brightline is the only privately owned and operated intercity passenger railroad in the United States. Its development started in March 2012 as All Aboard Florida by Florida East Coast Industries; a Florida real estate developer owned by Fortress Investment Group. Construction began in November 2014 and the route opened in January 2018. Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2000 ISO 100. #trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #dronephotography #trainphotographer #railroadphotographer #jimpearsonphotography

UP 5970 leads two new Brightline Green and Pink commuter train sets at Robards, Kentucky

UP 5970 leads CSX S988 as it heads south at Anaconda at Robards, Kentucky with two new Brightline Green and Pink commuter train sets, as they head for Florida, on the Henderson Subdivision on July 16th, 2022.

These train sets were built by Siemens in Sacramento, California and are destined for service along Brightline’s routes in Florida.

According to Wikipedia: Brightline is a privately run intercity rail route between Miami and West Palm Beach, Florida that runs on track owned by Florida East Coast Railway. An extension from West Palm Beach to Orlando International Airport is expected to open in 2023.

Brightline is the only privately owned and operated intercity passenger railroad in the United States. Its development started in March 2012 as All Aboard Florida by Florida East Coast Industries; a Florida real estate developer owned by Fortress Investment Group. Construction began in November 2014 and the route opened in January 2018.

Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2000 ISO 100.

CSX loaded military train S850 sits in the siding at the north end of Rankin, Kentucky as they meet a southbound I025 on the Henderson Subdivision on August 4th, 2022. This intermodal has been running with these autoracks loaded with Teslas on their way south. Today’s train had 25 autoracks. The cars range in price from $46,000 - $120,000, depending on the model. Military Humvees cost around $70,000 each. Upgraded humvee variants, called armored or up-armored Humvees, carry higher price tags that range from $160,000 to $220000. A lot of money being moved here, not even including the intermodal shipments! Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2000 ISO 100. #trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #dronephotography #trainphotographer #railroadphotographer #jimpearsonphotography

CSX loaded military train S850 sits in the siding at the north end of Rankin, Kentucky

CSX loaded military train S850 sits in the siding at the north end of Rankin, Kentucky as they meet a southbound I025 on the Henderson Subdivision on August 4th, 2022. This intermodal has been running with these autoracks loaded with Teslas on their way south. Today’s train had 25 autoracks. The cars range in price from $46,000 – $120,000, depending on the model.

Military Humvees cost around $70,000 each. Upgraded humvee variants, called armored or up-armored Humvees, carry higher price tags that range from $160,000 to $220000. A lot of money being moved here, not even including the intermodal shipments!

Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2000 ISO 100.

A day of action on the CSX Henderson subdivision between Springfield, Tennessee to Kelly, Kentucky

September 2nd, 2022 A day of action on the CSX Henderson subdivision between Springfield, Tennessee to Kelly, Kentucky, plus a short side trip on the RJ Corman Railroad at Guthrie, KY featuring CSX M512, CO15, M503, M647, RJ Corman Local, I025, and X647. Thanks for watching! Don’t forget to Subscribe and Ring the Notification Bell so you won’t miss any of my future videos! Have a blessed day everyone!!
CSXT 523 and 5283 lead local L391 north as they pass over Gum Lick, the highest and longest trestle on the CSX Henderson Subdivision, on their way to perform work at Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, Kentucky on September 2nd, 2022. Gum Lick trestle is located between Kelly and Crofton, Ky and not only the longest trestle on the subdivision but also the highest on the old Louisville and Nashville Railway line, now known as the Henderson Subdivision. Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 100. #trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #dronephotography #trainphotographer #railroadphotographer #jimpearsonphotography

CSXT 523 and 5283 lead local L391 north as they pass over Gum Lick Trestle at Kelly, KY

CSXT 523 and 5283 lead local L391 north as they pass over Gum Lick, the highest and longest trestle on the CSX Henderson Subdivision, on their way to perform work at Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, Kentucky on September 2nd, 2022.

Gum Lick trestle is located between Kelly and Crofton, Ky and not only the longest trestle on the subdivision but also the highest on the old Louisville and Nashville Railway line, now known as the Henderson Subdivision.

Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 100.