April 4, 2006 – Blast From The Past – CSXT 8584 leads a mixed freight past the signals approaching the southern crossover, where CSX and Norfolk Southern crossover on the CSX CE&D Subdivision, as it heads north through Princeton, Indiana. Jim Pearson Photography
June 24, 2006 – Blast From The Past – BNSF 4620 leads a mixed freight through the Tehachapi mountains after passing through tunnel 10 on the Mojave Subdivision, headed east toward Tehachapi, California.
June 24, 2006 – Blast From The Past – Amtrak locomotive #56, leads the Southwest Chief as it passes the signals at MP 604 as it heads west to Los Angeles through the Cajon Pass in southern California at Cajon Junction, CA.
June 21, 2006 – Blast From The Past – It’s 9:45 in the morning as Union Pacific 2365 struggles past CP Canyon as it heads east up the Cajon Pass in southern California with a loaded manifest.The pass is one of the busiest rail areas in southern California.
April 5, 2020 – CSXT 522 pulls uphill as it leads CSX Q502 north at Earlington, Kentucky on the Henderson Subdivision on Palm Sunday, on it’s daily run between Nashville, TN and Chicago, IL.
April 4, 2006 – Blast From The Past – Norfolk Southern 9479 leads a mixed freight eastbound as the setting sun produces a golden glow as the train makes its way out of Princeton, Indiana on the NS Southern East District.
July 31, 2004- Blast From The Past – A pair of E8s, with 5711 leading, in beautiful Pennsylvania RR maroon and gold paint pulled a private car passenger train between Philadelphia and Dennison, Ohio during the Dennison Railroad Museum’s 2004 Railfest. Here it is just East of Morgan Run headed away from Dennison.
The event was in cooperation with the Ohio Central Railroad, as the museum celebrated its 15th Anniversary. It was billed as the largest railroad heritage event of 2004.
It ran from July 30 to August 1, 2004. Many of the locomotives featured during the event were owned by the Ohio Central Railroad. The Ohio Central at that time provided full-time freight railroad services and also offered passenger excursions powered by vintage equipment. Not sure if this is still the case or not.
June 23, 2006 – Blast From The Past – BNSF 4194 leads a train of reefers northbound after coming through the Tehachapi Loop as it heads north on Union Pacific’s Mojave Subdivision, just north of milepost 352.
June 21, 2006 – A Blast from the Past – BNSF 7784 leads three other units on a west bound intermodal at Cajon Summit at Hesperia, California as they begin their descent through the Cajon Pass toward Los Angeles on the BNSF Cajon Subdivision.
March 31, 2020 – A CSX bridge work crew keeps a watchful eye and sends a friendly wave to the crew of CSX as Q502 crosses over the Craborchard Creek bridge, as CSXT mobile crane 916100 sits idle, as the manifest heads north through their work zone on the Henderson Subdivision at Nortonville, Ky. The crane is an AMERICAN Model 840 Locomotive Crane with a pile driver attached.
The bridge crew is working on installing new pilings for the bridge over Craborchard Creek using the pile driver attached to the crane. I’ll be posting a video on the operation later today if you’re interested in seeing and hearing it work.
Here’s more information on the crane if you’re interested: http://aolcrane.com/pdfs/840850debrochure.pdf
March 31, 2020 – Another of several photos I found on my old Mac G4 Laptop that I shot back in 2006 with my old Nikon D200 and thought I’d share a few of them. This mornings image was shot on June 20, 2006 and is of two BNSF intermodals making their way east and west through the Cajon Pass in Southern California on the Cajon Subdivision.
March 30, 2020 – I stumbled across this image and several others on my old Mac G4 Laptop that I shot back in 2006 with my old Nikon D200 and thought I’d share a few of them. This one is from June 6, 2006 of BNSF 4419 leading a business train east bound through Sullivan’s Curve just west of Cajon Junction in southern California, headed to Barstow, CA.
From the Web we learn that “Sullivan’s Curve is where the Union Pacific Palmdale Cutoff, and the BNSF mains 1 and 2 curve in a large horseshoe curve directly next to some large, rather impressive, rock formations. Promotional photos taken at this curve for the Santa Fe in the 1930’s through the 1950’s by photographer Herb Sullivan were fantastic, and made famous by their composition. The curve that he used so frequently was named in his honor, and rightfully so.”
March 26, 2020 – CSXT 715 leads Q648-25 as prepares to pass under the New Salem Circle overpass at Nortonville, ky as it heads up track 2 on the Henderson Subdivision.
March 12, 2020 – CSXT 319 leads a mixed freight as it rounds the curve coming into CP Brentwood on the S&NA North Subdivision as it heads north at Brentwood, Tennessee.
March 25, 2020 – Looking like a long centipede with all its tanks, BNSF 6855 leads CSX K423-24 as it makes its way along the main at the south end of Slaughters Siding, as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision with a loaded ethanol train at Slaughters, Ky.
March 25, 2020 – CSXT 4016 runs long nose forward as it heads up CSX J052-25 pulling a loaded ballast train as it works it’s way south at CP Anaconda on the Henderson Subdivision at Robards, Ky.
March 26, 2020 – Canadian Pacific 9814 leads CSX K815-25, an empty Phosphate train, through the S curve at Nortonville, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision.
March 25, 2020 – BNSF 6855 leads CSX K423-24 as it makes its way through the S curve Anaconda, approaching the Peddler McDonald grade crossing, south of Robards, Kentucky on track 2, as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision with a loaded ethanol train.
A big shoutout to all the fellow fans that gave me heads up on this move! It was good to be able to keep my social distance by railfanning alone and also nice to get out of the house for the first time in three days, with nice weather finally to boot! Stay safe out there everyone and wash your hands!
March 12, 2020 – I could hear the rumble of CSXT 6354 as struggled as the lone operating engine on its over 6,000 ft manifest train as it made its way up the grade on the main at the middle of the siding at Kelly, Kentucky as it headed north on the Henderson Subdivision.
March 12, 2020 – In this 600mm view we find CSXT 436 slowly pulling Q237 into the siding at the north end of Chapel Hill on the S&NA North Subdivision to wait on a northbound Q028 intermodal at Chapel Hill, Tennessee. The 600mm lens compresses everything and as a result makes the track look worse than it is.
February 20, 2020 – A Chicago Transit Authority Orange Line Train to Midway makes a turn on the downtown Loop as light from a nearby building illuminates the side of it’s train in downtown Chicago, Illinois.