CSX Local J732 northbound passing the L&N Depot at Hopkinsville, Ky This has been probably the best snow year we've had for a long time where in Western Kentucky, allowing for an abundance of favorite railroad snow scenes for me and this one taken on February 19th, 2021 is no exception! CSX J732, the local between Casky Yard at Hopkinsville and Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, heads north past the old Louisville and Nashville Railway depot at Hopkinsville, Kentucky on the Henderson Subdivision, as a blanket of snow covers the ground and depot. It’s running with a trio of SD 40's 4286 leading the way with a SD40-3. According to Wikipedia: "The L &N Railroad Depot in the Hopkinsville Commercial Historic District of Hopkinsville, Kentucky is a historic railroad station on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in 1892. The year 1832 saw the first of many attempts to woo a railroad to Hopkinsville. This first attempt was to connect Hopkinsville to Eddyville, Kentucky. In 1868 Hopkinsville finally obtained a railroad station, operated by the Evansville, Henderson, & Nashville Railroad. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad acquired the railroad in 1879. The Hopkinsville depot is a single-story frame building with a slate roof. It has six rooms: A Ladies Waiting room (the room closest to the street), a General Waiting Room, a Colored Waiting Room, a baggage room (the furthest room from the street), a ticket office (the only room which connected to all three waiting rooms), and a ladies' restroom. Immediately outsides were warehouses for freight, usually tobacco. Its last long-distance (passenger) train was the Louisville and Nashville's Georgian, last operating in 1968. During its operating years, the Hopkinsville depot was a popular layover spot for those traveling by train. It was the only Louisville & Nashville station between Evansville, Indiana and Nashville, Tennessee where it was legal to drink alcohol. Hopkinsville got the nickname "Hop town" due to train passengers asking the conductors when they would arrive at Hopkinsville, so they could "hop off and get a drink". The Hopkinsville L & N Railroad Depot was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 1, 1975. CSX, which bought out the Louisville & Nashville, still run trains on the tracks next to the depot, but do not stop." Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Nikon DX 10-20mm lens @24mm (crop lens) f/4.5, 1/800, ISO 100.

CSX Local J732 northbound passing the L&N Depot at Hopkinsville, Ky

This has been probably the best snow year we’ve had for a long time where in Western Kentucky, allowing for an abundance of favorite railroad snow scenes for me and this one taken on February 19th, 2021 is no exception!

CSX J732, the local between Casky Yard at Hopkinsville and Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, heads north past the old Louisville and Nashville Railway depot at Hopkinsville, Kentucky on the Henderson Subdivision, as a blanket of snow covers the ground and depot. It’s running with a trio of SD 40’s 4286 leading the way with a SD40-3.

According to Wikipedia: “The L &N Railroad Depot in the Hopkinsville Commercial Historic District of Hopkinsville, Kentucky is a historic railroad station on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in 1892.

The year 1832 saw the first of many attempts to woo a railroad to Hopkinsville. This first attempt was to connect Hopkinsville to Eddyville, Kentucky. In 1868 Hopkinsville finally obtained a railroad station, operated by the Evansville, Henderson, & Nashville Railroad. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad acquired the railroad in 1879.

The Hopkinsville depot is a single-story frame building with a slate roof. It has six rooms: A Ladies Waiting room (the room closest to the street), a General Waiting Room, a Colored Waiting Room, a baggage room (the furthest room from the street), a ticket office (the only room which connected to all three waiting rooms), and a ladies’ restroom. Immediately outsides were warehouses for freight, usually tobacco.

Its last long-distance (passenger) train was the Louisville and Nashville’s Georgian, last operating in 1968.

During its operating years, the Hopkinsville depot was a popular layover spot for those traveling by train. It was the only Louisville & Nashville station between Evansville, Indiana and Nashville, Tennessee where it was legal to drink alcohol. Hopkinsville got the nickname “Hop town” due to train passengers asking the conductors when they would arrive at Hopkinsville, so they could “hop off and get a drink”.

The Hopkinsville L & N Railroad Depot was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 1, 1975. CSX, which bought out the Louisville & Nashville, still run trains on the tracks next to the depot, but do not stop.”

Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Nikon DX 10-20mm lens @24mm (crop lens) f/4.5, 1/800, ISO 100.