February 2, 2019 – Union Pacific 4091 heads up Paducah and Louisville Railway WYX1 (Z4091) as it heads south over the Tennessee River at Kentucky Dam in Gilbertsville, Ky with a loaded train of coke bound for Calvert City Terminal. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #pal #palrailway #paducahandlouisvillerailway
January 30, 2019 – BNSF 6744 and 6698 lead CSX Q028 north on the Henderson Subdivision at Guthrie, Kentucky.
January 30, 2019 – The conductor keeps a watchful eye as CSXT 6956 heads up the yard power at Guthrie, Ky as it works in the Koppers Plant that runs alongside the Henderson Subdivision. According to Koppers website, “the Koppers Guthrie plant was constructed by the L&N Railroad in 1912 at the intersection of its main line north and south/east and west. The plant was purchased by Koppers in 1958. Today, Guthrie is a primary supplier of crossties, switch ties and track panels to the CSX and national railroad systems.” – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad
January 17, 2019 – A Norfolk Southern autorack pulls though the yard to the crosswalk where it will do a crew change, at Princeton, Indiana on the NS Southern-East District. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #ns #nsrailway #norfolksouthern
January 21, 2019 – Paducah and Louisville Railway’s 2601 heads up a local as it backs through the south end of CSX’s Atkinson Yard as it does local interchange work with CSX on the Henderson Subdivision. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad #pal #palrailway
January 13, 2019 – NS 6104 leads a mixed freight as it works the north end of Charlotte Yard at Charlotte, NC as it builds a train with the city skyline in the background on a wet and dreary day. – #jimstrainphotos #northcarolinarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #NC #NCrailroads
January 21, 2019 – A Paducah and Louisville railway local passes through PAL’s West Yard, with 3808 leading on its way south, as the last light of day begins to fade from the sky. Parked at the right is PAL 3801 (GP38), University of Louisville Cardinals engine. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #pal #palrailway
January 21, 2019 – CSX local J932 prepares to crest the hill at Mortons Junction as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision at Mortons Gap, Ky. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad
January 17, 2019 – Pioneer Lines PREX 806 and 1614 sit idle in the yard at the Indiana Southwestern Railway at their Harwood Yard in Evansville, Indiana.
According to Wikipeda: Indiana Southwestern Railway (reporting mark ISW) is a subsidiary of Pioneer Railcorp, operator of several short-line railroad companies. The ISW is a Class III railroad, and operated on 17 miles of track from Evansville, Indiana, northward to Cynthiana, Indiana. That track is currently out of service but switching still occurs in ISWs yard and surrounding industries.
The line was originally operated as part of an Illinois Central Railroad line that ran all the way to Newton, Illinois. Illinois Central sold off the line south of Browns, Illinois, to Indiana Hi-Rail Corporation; the line went through a succession of operators, all of which had to contend with the lines ancient bridge over the Wabash River near Grayville, Illinois. The bridge suffered damage from floods on more than one occasion, and one span finally collapsed completely around 1999.
Pioneer bought the line and its Evansville shops in 2000 from the Evansville Terminal Railway. However, when Pioneer stopped shipping grain, the track had to be dismantled and salvaged at the close of 2011. Only the small stretch from the interchange northwest of Evansville to just north of their yard is still used, a distance of about 4 miles.
The dates back to 1881 as part of the Evansville and Peoria Railroad, which then became part of the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville Railway through a series of purchases. The PD&E became part of Illinois Central in 1900. The ISW is currently the only remaining in-service segment of the PD&E south of Mattoon, Illinois.
January 12, 2019 – CSX Q583 passes the yard office (an old Seaboard Station) at the south end of Monroe Yard with CSXT 3243 leading as it heads north on the Monroe Subdivision at Monroe, NC. – #jimstrainphotos #ncrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad
January 16, 2019 – “Torpedo boat Geep” FLSX 71 moves a set of empty hoppers into place at Consolidated Grain and Barge, just west of County Road 475, at Lyles Station, Indiana at their elevator. I understand that, FLSX is Great Miami, Inc., and the locomotive is ex-CERA/CIND 1751, exx-MKT 120, nee-MKT 1761. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway
January 13, 2019 – A Charlotte, NC LYNX Blue Line Commuter train pulls away from the 25th Street light rail station, under a maze of power lines, as it heads north to its final stop at the I-485 station. According to Wikipedia, 25th Street is a light rail station on the LYNX Blue Line in the Optimist Park neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. It opened on March 16, 2018, as part of the Blue Line extension to the UNC Charlotte campus. The station features an island platform and is located at the southern end of NoDa. – #jimstrainphotos #NCrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #commutertrain #lightrail #northcarolinarailroads
January 12, 2019 – CSX Q583 approaches the south end of Monroe Yard with CSXT 3243 leading as it heads north on Monroe Subdivision at Monroe, NC. – #jimstrainphotos #ncrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad
January 13, 2019 – NC Piedmont commuter train 74, with locomotive 1893, City of Burlington, leading, heads north out of the NS Charlotte Yard at Charlotte, NC bound for Raleigh, NC under stormy skies.
According a 2011 press release from NCDOT, The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Rail Division commissioned the #1893 “City of Burlington” commuter locomotive into service for the use in their daily Piedmont passenger train service on December 15th, 2011. The then newly-refurbished locomotive replaced the locomotive damaged in a crash in Mebane in 2010. The #1893 “City of Burlington” is painted in the NCDOT Piedmont paint scheme, which incorporates the colors and symbols of North Carolina’s state flag. NCDOT names its locomotives for the cities along its passenger rail corridor. Each locomotive’s number corresponds to the incorporation or charter date of the city after which it is named. – #jimstrainphotos#northcarolinarailroads#trains#nikond800#railroad#railroads#train#railways#railway#NC#NCrailroads
January 12, 2019 – A LYNX Blue Line train arrives at the end of it’s line a the I-485 stop in Pineville, NC.According Wikipedia: The Lynx Blue Line is a light rail line in Charlotte, North Carolina. The 19.3-mile (31.1 km) line goes from its northern terminus at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in University City through NoDa, Uptown, and South End then paralleling South Boulevard to its southern terminus just north of Interstate 485 at the Pineville city limits.
There are 26 stations in the system, the light rail portion of which carries an average of over 16,900 passenger trips every day. It is the first major rapid rail service of any kind in North Carolina, and began operating seventy years after the previous Charlotte streetcar system was disbanded in 1938, in favor of motorized bus transit. It opened on November 24, 2007 between I-485/South Boulevard and 7th Street as the first rail line of the Charlotte Area Transit System. – #jimstrainphotos#NCrailroads#trains#nikond800#railroad#railroads#train#railways#railway#commutertrain#lightrail#northcarolinarailroads
January 9, 2019 – Savatrans SVTX 1986 & 1982 head up NS 431 as it sits tied down with their empty coal train at the Sitran Dock at Abee, Indiana as the train waits for it’s crew to show up. – #jimstrainphotos#indianarailroads#trains#nikond800#railroad#railroads#train#railways#railway#savatrans
January 9, 2019 – The head end of Evansville Western Railway’s EVW5 (with 4501 and LTEX 8708 leading) catches to the rear end of its loaded coal train (EVWR 2103, 2108 and LTEX 8740 as DPUs) as it makes its way around the loop at the Mount Vernon Terminal at Mount Vernon, Indiana, delivering a load. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #evwr #evansvillewesternrailway
December 21, 2018 – CSX Q647, with 3 different paint schemes, BNSF 6578 ES44C4 in H3 paint, BNSF 4886 Dash 9 in H2 paint and BNSF 1073 dash 9 in H1 paint, passes the signals at the south end of Breton siding as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision at Breton, Ky. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad
October 20, 2008 – A BNSF ballast train makes it’s way west from the Summit of the Cajon Pass in Southern California with BNSF 6735 leading. –#jimstrainphotos#californiarailroads#trains#nikond300#railroad#railroads#train#railways#railway#bnsf#bnsfrailway
January 1, 2019 – Rails are aglow from the headlights of Indiana Southern Railroad 3385 as it works Ashby Yards at Petersburg, Indiana, as light from the first day of the year begins to fade toward night. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #isrr #indianasouthernrailroad
January 1, 2019 – Norfolk Southern 9898 leads 375 through Mt. Carmel, Illinois with CBFX 6028, One of the three former BN SD60M’s trailing, as they head west on the NS Southern-West District. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #ns #norfolksouthern #nsrailroad