November 11, 2017 – Day 12 – iPhone Daily B&W White Photo Challenge: A different view of a southbound freight train at Nortonville, Ky shot from a bridge overpass. Looking for a different viewpoint can help add impact and interest to your photos!
November 11, 2017 – It’s late evening as CSX Local J731-11, right, and loaded grain train G411-11 pass each other at Nortonville, Ky as the headlights from CSXT 5438 reflect off the grain hoppers as the trains head in their separate destinations on the Henderson Subdivision. J731 is a new Casky, KY to Atkinson, KY turn and Q411 runs from Haw Creek, IN – Banks, AL.
November 7, 2017 – While this photo of Paducah and Louisville Railway’s “Salute to our Veterans” locomotive 2129 trailing on a northbound local at West Yard in Madisonville, Ky was taken several days ago, I felt today was the appropriate day to post it. I salute all the railroaders, railfans and others that have served our county! It’s an honor to be counted among your ranks!
Veterans Day is a U.S. legal holiday dedicated to American veterans of all wars. In 1918, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in World War I, then known as “the Great War.” Commemorated in many countries as Armistice Day the following year, November 11th became a federal holiday in the United States in 1938. In the aftermath of World War II and the Korean War, Armistice Day became legally known as Veterans Day. While it’s celebrated on the Friday before or Monday after if it falls on a weekend to allow for the federal holiday, the 11th is the traditional day of celebration.
November 4, 2017 – CSXT 5348 with a CITIRail Unit trailing makes a slight lean as it makes its way past the siding at Sebree, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision with hot intermodal CSX Q029 (Chicago, IL-Atlanta, GA).
This project started out on October 31 as a 7 Day Black and White Photo Challenge on Facebook. After the week went by I enjoyed it so much that I’ve decide to continue with the project as long as it takes me. These are the first 10 photos I’ve shot here in a gallery. Others I’ll post daily.
I hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I did taking them!
Perhaps, sometime down the road some of these will be in a book!
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November 7, 2017 – Light is about gone and so is the fall foliage, as loaded CSX E013-04 (Warrior Coal – Palatka, FL) heads down the grade, as it departs Warrior Coal, heading south back to the Morganfield Branch and onto Madisonville, Ky. At Atkinson Yard they’ll pickup a fresh crew that’s waiting to take the train on south on the Henderson Subdivision to Palatka, FL as N013-04.
November 4, 2017 – I’m amazed by what the camera can see that the eye doesn’t! When I pulled up to this spot with fellow railfan Ryan Scott, we both looked at the scene and man it’s dark!! I love how my full frame sensor captured all the ambient light and how it turned the slow moving clouds into almost what looks like the aurora borealis in some ways!!!
Here we see a CSXT 1543, a GP-15, tied to Chessie System Caboose 904138 on the City Lead that runs along next to Ohio Street in Evansville, Indiana. The set is used to work the industrial area around Berry Plastics and the caboose is used as the shoving platform.
ISO 100 for 30 seconds at f/6.3 with a Nikon 18mm lens on a Nikon D800.
November 4, 2017 – CSX Q647 (Chicago, IL (BRC) – Waycross, GA) heads up the viaduct approach to the CSX bridge over the Ohio River at Henderson, Ky as it makes it’s way south on the Henderson Subdivision from Rahm, Indiana.
November 4, 2017 – CSX Q586 rounds Elmwood Curve at MP 290 as it heads south at Slaughters, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision, with Union Pacific 7426 leading the way, as fall color begins to show in the trees behind it.
October 4, 2017 – CSX Q586 (Nashville, TN – Evansville, IN) heads over the Ohio River Bridge at Henderson, Ky as it heads north to Evansville, Indiana on the Henderson Subdivision with CSXT 598 leading.
October 26, 2017 – A crew on Road and Rail Service’s 3109 switch a set of empty autoracks at the Toyota Plant in Princeton, Indiana.
September 9, 2017 – Southern Railway steam locomotive 630 heads for the East Chattanooga shops and station with a loaded passenger train during the 2017 Railfest at Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, at Chattanooga, Tennessee.Southern Railway steam locomotive 630 heads for the East Chattanooga shops
October 26, 2017 – The Conductor on Squaw Creek Southern 21 walks along side his train as they drop off some cars at Yankeetown, Indiana. The Squaw Creek Southern Railroad is a subsidiary of the Respondek Railroad Corporation. The name comes from an Indiana coal hauling line that Respondek purchased. The Squaw Creek Railroad was a Peabody Coal operation in southern Indiana which pretty much solely existed to move coal from Lynnville and Squaw Creek Mines to a power plant on the Ohio River.Sqaw Creek 21 at Yankee Town, IN
October 31, 2017 – Norfolk Southern 7679 leads a loaded coal train across the trestle at Big Clifty, Ky as it heads north toward Louisville, Ky on the Paducah and Louisville Railway as the last light of Halloween begins to fade from the sky.NS NB loaded Coal at Big Clifty, Ky
September 9, 2017 – The conductor on one of the passenger train movements during Railfest 2017 at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum keeps a watchful eye from the vestibule of one of the cars, as the train backs up.
October 26, 2017 – Norfolk Southern Railroad’s 8772, with long nose forward, heads up a waiting rail train, as Maintenance of Way crews tear out a crossing at the NS/IS diamond at Oakland City, Indiana. Norfolk Southern MOW crews worked several days to replace the diamond and several crossings surrounding around it.
My nephew Xavier waits for his Gigi to walk by so he can scare her! Capturing moments like this with your camera, iPhone or other smartphone are as simple as paying attention to the moments ar0und you as they develop and being prepared! I think I like the Black and White treatment the best, but I’ve included the color version for your input!
Shot with an iPhone 7plus and processed in Snapseed!
October 26, 2017 – A empty Norfolk Southern Coal train makes its way through the fall countryside, outside Booneville, Indiana, after dropping a load of coal at the Alcoa plant, just outside of Yankeetown, IN.NS 8154 Headed for Booneville, IN
October 26, 2017 – After hearing from a fellow railfan, William Crupper (thanks!!), that Norfolk Southern’s Interstate (8105) and Lehigh Valley (8104) Heritage units were on coal trains delivering coal to Alcoa in Newburgh Indiana, I made my way that way. By the time I arrived they had finished their work and while both coal trains were gone the heritage units were left tied down at the small yard at Alcoa, which I made for a great shot!
September 9, 2017 – Southern Railway steam locomotive 630 enters the west end of Missionary Ridge Tunnel, with a loaded passenger train, during the 2017 Railfest at Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, as it heads for the station at East Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Completed in 1858 the tunnel is the primary reason TVRM runs on the three-mile section of the former Southern Railway. As railroad equipment grew too large to pass through and the single-track tunnel became a traffic jam for an otherwise double-track railroad, Southern Railway abandoned the three mile portion of the line and built a new section around the end of Missionary Ridge, avoiding the tunnel altogether.
The museum restored rails through the tunnel in 1971 and continues to use the pre-Civil War Tunnel on a daily basis.
October 24, 2017 – CSXT 715 leads W248-15 pulling a short train of windmill turbines and motors as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision at Nortonville, Ky.CSX W248-15 Windmill Train NB at Romney, Nortonville, Ky