March 10, 2018 – Day 131 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B&W Photo Challenge – Industrial Landscape – I spent most of today railfanning (taking pictures of trains) in southern Indiana and Illinois. This scene is of the Norfolk Southern railway yards from an overpass in Princeton, Indiana. Good leading lines can help draw your viewer into your picture!
February 7, 2018 – Norfolk Southern 8100, the Nickel Plate unit, pulls a empty coal train around the loop at Alliance Coal past a loaded CSX train at Princeton, Indiana in preparation to pickup a load of coal.
February 7, 2018 – Norfolk Southern 8100, the Nickel Plate unit, pulls an empty coal train east past Lyle Siding in Princeton, Indiana as it heads for Alliance Coal to pickup a load of coal.
February 7, 2018 – Norfolk Southern 8100, the Nickel Plate unit, pulls a empty coal train around the loop at Alliance Coal past a loaded CSX train at Princeton, Indiana in preparation to pickup a load of coal.
February 7, 2018 – Norfolk Southern 8100, the Nickel Plate unit, pulls an empty coal train east at the MP 157 defect detector at Wright, just past Consolidated Grain & Barge at Princeton, Indiana as it heads for Alliance Coal to pickup a load of coal.
October 1, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s 9571 heads up the American Association of Private Railway Car Owners passenger train special with AMTRAK engines 156 and 154, as it heads west through Hatfield Junction just east of Oakland City, Indiana. The train left Louisville on the former Southern Railway’s St. Louis line and crossed the Ohio River, traveling through scenic southern Indiana and Illinois arriving at their convention destination in St. Louis, Missouri. – Tech Info: 1/400sec | f/5 | ISO 320 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 32mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 17, 2018 – Steam from the Alcoa plant at Yankeetown Dock in Newburgh, IN seems to come from Norfolk Southern’s 8105, Interstate, Heritage Unit as, it sits tied down with NS 7243 in the snow.
November 24, 2017 – Norfolk Southern train 375 pulls out of the yard at Princeton, Indiana, with BNSF 5952 leading the way, as it heads westbound.
December 26, 2017 – Norfolk Southern Interstate Heritage Unit, 8104, brings up the rear of empty Norfolk Southern coal train D435-24, outside the Squaw Creek Mine at Booneville, Indiana.
December 26, 2017 – “Twas the night before Christmas” when empty Norfolk Southern coal train D435-24, with Lehigh Valley Heritage Unit 8104 pulled to a stop outside the Squaw Creek Mine at Booneville, Indiana, where it still sits the day after Christmas, waiting for a crew to take it on into the mine for loading. With the holidays over crews across the nation will soon once again begin to move their trains.
January 5, 2017 – Norfolk Southern’s 167 crew sits on 8046 as they wait for a crew bus to pick them up from the middle of the yard at Princeton, Indiana as CN unit train 319 sits next to them, also with a crew waiting for pickup, after arriving with their eastbound manifest train.
November 24, 2017 – Westbound Norfolk Southern 375 stops briefly on the main at Georgetown, IN so the units that helped push it up the grade from Louisville, Ky to be dropped off from the rear of its train, giving me just long enough to get off one exposure before it started moving again!
June 24, 2006 – It’s a hot, dry day as Norfolk Southern 9943, in gray primer paint, heads up a Union Pacific freight train as it makes it’s way through the Tehachapi Mountains at Bealville, California as it heads toward the famous Tehachapi Loop.NS 9943 at Tehachapi Mountains, Bealville, CA
November 4, 2017 – Norfolk Southern 3615 shoves a loaded coal train back into the Alcoa Plant at Yankeetown, Indiana as the last rays of light spill into the sky behind it.
October 26, 2017 – With long hood forward, Norfolk Southern Railroad 8772 heads up a rail train as it sits on the Norfolk Southern/Indiana Southern diamond at Oakland City, Indiana. The engineer was waiting for the crew on the back of the train to cut a piece of rail, before moving ahead to the east to drop more rail.
October 31, 2017 – Norfolk Southern 7679 leads a loaded coal train across the trestle at Big Clifty, Ky as it heads north toward Louisville, Ky on the Paducah and Louisville Railway as the last light of Halloween begins to fade from the sky.NS NB loaded Coal at Big Clifty, Ky
October 26, 2017 – Norfolk Southern Railroad’s 8772, with long nose forward, heads up a waiting rail train, as Maintenance of Way crews tear out a crossing at the NS/IS diamond at Oakland City, Indiana. Norfolk Southern MOW crews worked several days to replace the diamond and several crossings surrounding around it.
October 26, 2017 – A empty Norfolk Southern Coal train makes its way through the fall countryside, outside Booneville, Indiana, after dropping a load of coal at the Alcoa plant, just outside of Yankeetown, IN.NS 8154 Headed for Booneville, IN
October 26, 2017 – After hearing from a fellow railfan, William Crupper (thanks!!), that Norfolk Southern’s Interstate (8105) and Lehigh Valley (8104) Heritage units were on coal trains delivering coal to Alcoa in Newburgh Indiana, I made my way that way. By the time I arrived they had finished their work and while both coal trains were gone the heritage units were left tied down at the small yard at Alcoa, which I made for a great shot!
September 8, 2017 – BNSF 9221 leads a loaded coal train down grade alongside Norfolk Southern DeButts Yard in Chattanooga, TN as it heads west on the Chattanooga Terminal.