CSX Q025-22 SB at North Romney, Nortonville, Ky
Category: Kentucky Railroads
CSX 0501-18 with NS 911 at Sebree, Ky
One of several commemorative locomotives, it’s a SD60E honoring emergency first responders. The locomotive with insignia recognizing police, fire, and emergency services runs on Norfolk Southerns 22-state network and obviously sometimes even beyond! – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad #nsrailway #norfolksouthern
CSX Q028-11 passes Q025-12 at Anaconda, Sebree, Ky
CSX SB Q025-07 meets NB Q648-05 at North Romney, Nortonville, Ky
Respondek 415 and 2425 at Atkinson Yard, Madisonville, Ky
CSX C027-03 SB Rail Train at Davis Rd. overpass, Mannington, Ky
March 29, 2018 – CSX intermodal Q025-29 snakes through the curve…
Crews on board “The J,” ex-Elgin Joliet and Eastern, EJE 703 EMD GP38-2 work…
February 24, 2018 – Crews on board “The J,” ex-Elgin Joliet and Eastern, EJE 703 EMD GP38-2 work on building a train at the Canadian National Yard in Fulton, Kentucky.
According to Wikipedia, The Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway (reporting mark EJE) was a Class I railroad, operating between Waukegan, Illinois and Gary and Porter Indiana. The railroad served as a link between Class I railroads traveling to and from Chicago, although it operated almost entirely within the city’s suburbs, and only entered Chicago where it served the U.S. Steel South Works on the shores of Lake Michigan. Nicknames for the railroad included “The J” and “The Chicago Outer Belt Line”. At the end of 1970, the EJ&E operated 164 miles of track and carrying 848 million ton-miles of revenue freight in that year alone.
On September 26, 2007, the Canadian National Railway announced that it planned to purchase a majority of the EJ&E, leaving a portion of the line in Indiana to be reorganized as the Gary Railway. The purchase was approved on December 24, 2008 by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board, and the deal was consummated effective February 1, 2009. In the years immediately following the merger, the railroad existed as a subsidiary of Canadian National, and EJ&E locomotives that were repainted into CN colors were sub-lettered for the EJ&E.
On December 31, 2012, Canadian National announced that the merger of the EJ&E into Wisconsin Central Ltd. (Another railroad subsidiary of CN) had been completed, and would take effect the following day. On January 1, 2013, the EJ&E effectively ceased to exist.
March 29, 2018 – CSX intermodal Q029-29 approaches the north end of the siding at Romney…
March 28, 2018 – A RJ Corman track crew offloads ties…
March 17, 2018 – CSX Q647 heads into the north end of Romney siding with ex-Santa Fe…
Southbound PAL 2111 exits the tunnel at Dawson Springs, Ky
CSX 3037 pulls into siding at PAL West Yard, Madisonville, Ky
CSX Q647 meets W226 at North Slaughters, Ky
The J 703 with GTW and CN at Fulton, Ky
CSX K460-27 ethanol empties northbound at Sebree, Ky
CSXT 5266 leads Q028-23 as it approaches the south end…
GTW 6224 gets dropped at Fulton, Ky
According to Wikipedia, the Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company (reporting mark GTW) is an American subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway (reporting mark CN) operating in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
Since a corporate restructuring in 1971 the railroad has been under CN’s subsidiary holding company the Grand Trunk Corporation. Grand Trunk Western’s routes are part of CN’s Midwest Division. Its primary mainline between Chicago, Illinois, and Port Huron, Michigan, serves as a connection between railroad interchanges in Chicago and rail lines in eastern Canada and the Northeastern United States.
The railroad’s extensive trackage in Detroit and across southern Michigan has made it an essential link for the automotive industry as a hauler of parts and automobiles from manufacturing plants.
“The J,” ex-Elgin Joliet and Eastern, EJ&E 703…
February 24, 2018 – “The J,” ex-Elgin Joliet and Eastern, EJ&E 703 EMD GP38-2 works on building a train at the Canadian National Yard in Fulton, Kentucky.
According to Wikipedia, The Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway (reporting mark EJE) was a Class I railroad, operating between Waukegan, Illinois and Gary and Porter Indiana. The railroad served as a link between Class I railroads traveling to and from Chicago, although it operated almost entirely within the city’s suburbs, and only entered Chicago where it served the U.S. Steel South Works on the shores of Lake Michigan. Nicknames for the railroad included “The J” and “The Chicago Outer Belt Line”. At the end of 1970, the EJ&E operated 164 miles of track and carrying 848 million ton-miles of revenue freight in that year alone.
On September 26, 2007, the Canadian National Railway announced that it planned to purchase a majority of the EJ&E, leaving a portion of the line in Indiana to be reorganized as the Gary Railway. The purchase was approved on December 24, 2008 by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board, and the deal was consummated effective February 1, 2009. In the years immediately following the merger, the railroad existed as a subsidiary of Canadian National, and EJ&E locomotives that were repainted into CN colors were sub-lettered for the EJ&E.
On December 31, 2012, Canadian National announced that the merger of the EJ&E into Wisconsin Central Ltd. (Another railroad subsidiary of CN) had been completed, and would take effect the following day. On January 1, 2013, the EJ&E effectively ceased to exist.
