August 22, 2018 – RJ Corman’s 3805 leads it’s train east to Guthrie, Ky after doing a day of pickup and drop offs along the Memphis Turn, with 3863 trailing. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #rjc #rjcrailroad #rjcormanrailroad
August 25, 2018 – Day 299 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Cousins! – My nephews Xavier and Jayden lay around on a car trailer ramp after we spent a couple hours walking around and shooting pictures at the Frog Follies car show in Evansville, Indiana today. They both were about tuckered out but had a great time!
August 22, 2018 – CSXT 64 leads N875, a loaded coal train, past local J732 at Guthrie, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision through a cloud of coal dust from its trailing train. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad
August 24, 2018 – Day 298 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Aunt Chrystal! – My niece Chrystal surprised Elaina, Jayden and Damion yesterday when she walked in the door for their karate practice! She lives in Chicago and when she showed up you could hear plain as day Aunt Chrystal as the three of them rushed to give her a hug! I expected this to happen and was ready with my iPhone when she came in the door. Being prepared is always good, but still I got a bit of movement from being in the lower light of the indoors. However, I’ll take a little blur as this is a moment that makes it worth it!
August 22, 2018 – Day 296 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Old Grainery – This old grain operation in Guthrie, Ky from many years ago has seen better days, but it still makes for an interesting picture that works really well in black and white!
August 23, 2018 – Paducah and Louisville’s University of Kentucky 4522 70mac echos off the walls of the cut as it leads a loaded LG3 (Louisville Gas & Electric) coal train north under the highway 70 overpass outside of Bremen, Ky on its way north. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #pal #palrailway #paducahandlouisvillerailway
August 22, 2018 – This 600mm long lens shot shows RJ Corman’s 3805 as it lopes along through a tunnel of trees, at about 10mph, as it makes its way east on the Memphis Turn, approaching the Hampton Station Road Crossing, outside of Clarksville, Tennessee on the afternoon return to the yard at Guthrie, Kentucky. A big shout out to Cooper Smith for helping me get ahead of this move! Sonia Holz-Smith – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #rjcorman #rjcormanrailroad
August 23, 2018 – Day 297 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Patterns – Look around you, patterns can be found just about anywhere and can make for interesting pictures! This stack of Mountain Dews was setting in the grocery isle of my local Kroger store and made the cut for my challenge photo for the day!
August 20, 2018 – Paducah and Louisville Railway’s 2110 heads up a loaded coal train as it heads downgrade from Warrior Coal loadout at Nebo, Ky though a local rain shower. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #pal #palrailway #paducahandlouisvillerailway
August 21, 2018 – Day 295 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Lights and Lines! – I like all the lines and different lights in this photo I shot this morning as I headed in for lunch with members of our local photography group.
August 2, 2018 – Canadian National 2269 heads up local L513 as it waits for a signal to pass the DPU end of a loaded BNSF coal train at CN’s P&I Junction at Paducah, Ky after performing interchange work with the Paducah and Louisville Railway. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #cn #pal
August 20, 2018 – Day 294 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Seats – Captured this scene just before my train club meeting. I liked the chairs lined up in a row and my shadow like it was almost sitting in one of them!
August 17, 2018 – CSXT 872 leads loaded coal train N320 as it heads upgrade at the north end of the siding at Hanson, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad
August 19, 2018 – Day 293 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Are you ready? – My nephew Jordan peeks in the Worship and Wonder door after church to see what is going on in the class as he waits for his cousins to finish up. He-s still not quite old enough to participate, but it won-t be much longer as he starts pre-school next month!
August 17, 2018 – CSX loaded coal train N040 passes through the south end of the siding at Slaughters, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad
August 18, 2018 – Day 292 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Alien Princess – This afternoon I stopped by the Kelly Little Green Men festival at Kelly, Ky and found this Alien Princess wandering around the grounds! The festival stems from an alleged sighting of aliens back in 1955. I love roaming around small festivals like this as there’s always interesting pictures to be made!
September 17, 2014 – A BNSF intermodal heads under the signal bridge just below Hill 582 in southern California’s Cajon Pass as it heads eastbound up the pass. – #jimstrainphotos #californiarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #bnsf #bnsfrailway
August 17, 2018 – Day 291 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Junior Warriors – My great-great nephews Jayden, Damion and Xavier pose with their sensei Eric Myers after their first day in their Junior Warriors Karate Class! It was Jayden’s first day and the other two moved up from the Little Warriors class! They all did a great job! Damion wanted to do a serious pose, so no smiles or thumbs up!
August 16, 2018 – CSX X267 snakes it’s way through the S curve on track 2 between Nortonville and Romney, with BNSF 3924 leading, as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision from Nortonville, Ky. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad #bnsf #bnsfrailway
August 16, 2018 – Day 290 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Quality Time – After picking my nephew Jayden up from 1st grade we spent some quality time roaming around town looking for pictures to shoot. Here we find him checking out the photo he just shot of a vegetable peddler. If you want to see his picture head over to his page I maintain for him on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/shutterbugjayden/ or visit http://www.shutterbugkids.org/.
August 14, 2018 – CSXT 3423 leads empty autorack train X267 upgrade as it passes under the north main street overpass at Madisonville, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad