May 15, 2019 – CSXT 33 heads up an empty coal train as it heads down the Vectren lead from the A.B.Brown Power Plant, outside of Evansville, Indiana. The A. B. Brown Generating Station is a four-unit, 700 megawatt power plant, located on the northern bank of Ohio River, 8 miles east of Mount Vernon, Indiana and 5 miles southwest of Evansville, Indiana just west of the Posey-Vanderburgh County Line and is serviced by CSX via the Evansville Western Railway.
May 4, 2019 – Indiana Southern Railroad, ISRR 3388 EMD SD40-2 Indianapolis power and light (IPL) coal train sits tied down on the main south of Oakland City, Indiana as it waits for a new crew just short of county road 250.
According to Wikipedia: The Indiana Southern Railroad (reporting mark ISRR) is a short line or Class III railroad operating in the United States state of Indiana. It began operations in 1992 as a RailTex property, and was acquired by RailAmerica in 2000. RailAmerica was itself acquired by Genesee & Wyoming in December 2012.
Indiana Southern Railroad operates 186 miles of track from Indianapolis to Evansville. From Mars Hill (a neighborhood on the southwest side of Indianapolis) southwest through Martinsville and Spencer to Bee Hunter in Greene County, the ISRR runs on tracks that once made up the majority of the former Indianapolis & Vincennes Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
State Route 67 parallels the ISRR along much of this section. From Bee Hunter to Elnora the ISRR has trackage rights over the Indiana Rail Road. ISRR tracks resume from Elnora through Washington in Daviess County, Petersburg in Pike County, Oakland City in Gibson County, Elberfeld in Warrick County and Daylight in Vanderburgh County before terminating in Evansville along the former New York Central’s Evansville & Indianapolis Branch.
May 4, 2019 – A northbound CSX Q512 passes the signals at at Middle King, at Princeton, Indiana on the CE&D Subdivision, with CSXT 4384 as the trailing unit that used to be referred to as the Clinchfield logo unit. I’m told It received the unauthorized yellow stripes and the word Clinchfield on the nose the night before the 74th Santa Train. CSX took the Clinchfield off the nose and the Clinchfield logo off the side but left the stripes.
May 13, 2019 – Kansas City Southern 4602 leads CSX Q513-12 at Mortons Junction on the Henderson Subdivision as it heads south at Mortons Gap, Ky.
May 4, 2019 – Norfolk Southern, NS 8101 the NS Central of Georgia Heritage Unit, sits tied down with NS 8006 at Alcoa in Newburgh, Indiana as it waits for the plant to unload its coal cars under stormy skies.
May 4, 2019 – Indiana Southern Railroad, ISRR 3388 EMD SD40-2 Indianapolis power and light (IPL) coal train tied down on the main south of Oakland City, Indiana as it waits for a new crew just short of county road 250.
May 10, 2019 – CSXT 5278 leads CSX Q028 as it passes southbound a wall of containers on CSX Q025 at middle Kelly siding as they both go their opposite ways on the Henderson Subdivision at Kelly, Ky.
May 10, 2019 – A loaded Union Pacific coal train with UP 5455 and 4311 leading, crosses over the Crab Orchard & Egyptian Railway (COER) and UP diamond as it heads south on UP’s Marion Subdivision at Marion, Illinois.
According to Wikipedia: The Crab Orchard and Egyptian Railway (reporting mark COER) (formerly American Rail Heritage, Ltd. d/b/a Crab Orchard and Egyptian Railroad Company) is a Class III common carrier shortline railroad that operates in the cities of Marion and Herrin in the Southern Illinois region. It is most historically recognized by the FRA for being the last U.S. railroad of any kind to use steam locomotives exclusively in regular revenue freight service up until 1986.
The present-day shortline currently operates a total of 13.5 miles (21.7 km) of track across the industrial centers of Williamson County in two separate railroad districts with a fleet of two diesel switcher engines. One line being known as the “Marion District”, which is the railroad’s main working division with roughly 8.5 miles (13.7 km) of track; and the other division being the “Herrin District”, which mostly serves the city’s manufacturing industries along a 5-mile (8.0 km) stretch of track.
I tried without success to find their units on this trip, but, like Arnold, “I’ll be back!”
May 8, 2019 – Things don’t always go as planned, do they!! Today I ended up with this nice shot showing two CSX Welders repairing a section of track on the cutoff at Mortons Junction on the Henderson Subdivision at Mortons Gap, Ky. Don’t get me wrong, I like the shot, but it’s not the one I planned.
Let me backup just a little. The bridge over the tracks at Nortonville, Ky has been out of service sincesince last year and they finally opened it back up so I decided to head there to do a live video of a southbound train going through the nice S curve there. After setting at the location for almost two hours with no traffic, other than a track inspector, I had to head back to Madisonville.
I passed through Mortons Gap to check the signal incase there was a northbound coming behind me when I found these two guys hard at work repairing a section of rail. I passed them by as I was running late to pick up one of my nieces from preschool and low and behold I encounter a southbound coal train at the next crossing on the main!
Well, I whip around and head back to the junction with just enough time to spare before the head end power on the train prepared to pass the workers! A good 24mm shot with the train trailing off and the workers waving to the crew as the train pulled into the sweet spot for the picture and I started shooting away… with no card in the camera!
It happens to all of us!! I thought sure I had put it back, but obviously not! Now, the card was in the car, so if I had stopped in the first place to photograph them working, I would have realized it and put the card in and probably got the shot I wanted! So for me the moral of this story is, don’t pass up a shot! If you see one and it catches your eye then it’s worth exploring! Plus, you might have time to stick a card in before your secondary subject arrives!
After doing this for over 40 years you’d think I’d learn a thing or two! Keep clicking folks and always make sure when you head out that there’s a card in your camera!! LOL
May 4, 2019 – Norfolk Southern Heritage Unit 8114 trails behind NS 9318, on 60A, as it heads toward Huntingburg, Indiana on the NS Evansville Branch. It’s returning from AK Steel in Rockport, IN after dropping off loaded cars and picking up empties for the trip back to the east toward Louisville, Ky. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #ns #nsrailway #nsheritageunit
April 27, 2019 – BNSF 9123 and 8831 lead a loaded coal train over the CN/Evansville Western Railway Diamond as they head south on CN’s Centrailia Subdivision at Ashley, Illinois. – #jimstrainphotos #illinoisrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #bnsf #bnsfrailway
April 29, 2019 – CSXT 777 leads Q025 as it passes the head end of Q513 at Nortonville, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad
May 4, 2019 – Norfolk Southern 60A makes it’s way through the countryside as it heads back east on the NS Evansville Branch with a load of empties from AK Steel at Rockport, Indiana. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #ns #nsrailway
May 4, 2019 – Norfolk Southern Heritage Unit 8101, Central of Georgia, sits tied down with NS 8006 at Alcoa as it waits for it’s coal cars to be unloaded at Yankee Town, Indiana. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #ns #nsrailway #nsheritageunit
May 4, 2019 – NS DC to AC Conversion engine 4002 sits on the lead at Liberty Mine in Booneville, Indiana as it waits for a crew to take it in for loading. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #ns #nsrailway
May 1, 2019 – CSX intermodal Q028 passes through Mortons Junction where it begins a uphill climb as it heads north from Mortons Gap, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad
April 29, 2019 – DODX car 39483 carries and brand new empty nuclear waste container as it heads south through Mortons Gap, Ky on CSX Q513-29 on the Henderson Subdivision. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #fujixt1 #railroad #rainlroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailinroad
April 27, 2019 – Norfolk Southern 4129 leads a coal train as it enters the CN-IC Junction at Centralia, Illinois as it makes its way along the NS Southern West District. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #ns #nsrailway
May 1, 2019 – With a loud rumble CSXT 241 splits the rock walls as it leads CSX Q025 through the Crofton Cut, at Crofton, Ky, on its way south on the Henderson Subdivision with a loaded intermodal. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad
April 27, 2019 – Amtrak 390 departs Centralia, Illinois with engine 4615 leading the way as it heads south on CN’s Centralia Subdivision to its final destination of Carbondale. – #jimstrainphotos #illinoisrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #amtrak #passengertrain #commutertrain
April 27, 2019 – Norfolk Southern 9595 leading NS 223 as it passes the west end of Lyle Station Siding at Princeton, IN, as it continues its trip east on the Southern East District. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #ns #nsrailway