May 18, 2016 – CSX E303 (Stilesboro, GA – Evansville, IN) heads up the grade as it crosses the Red River Trestle at Adams, Tennessee and makes its way north with an empty coal train on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/800 | f/6.3 | ISO 800 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 600mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
May 18, 2016 – RJ Corman’s engine 3863 sits outside the engine house at Guthrie, Ky. – Tech Info: 1/800 | f/5.6 | ISO 1800 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 280mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
May 18, 2016 – CSX N303 (Evansville, IN (EVWR) Stilesboro, GA) passes the signals at the north end of Courtland as it heads north with its empty coal train at Springfield, Tn on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/250 | f/6.3 | ISO 1000 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 150mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
May 18, 2016 – CSX Q592 (Nashville, TN – Chicago, IL ) heads out of the north end of Radnor Yard in Nashville, Tennessee as it starts it run to Chicago, Illinois. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/5 | ISO 400 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 150mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
May 18, 2016 – CSX E303 (Stilesboro, GA – Evansville, IN) prepares to cross the Red River Trestle at Adams, Tennessee as it makes its way north with an empty coal train on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/800 | f/6.3 | ISO 1600 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 600mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
May 18, 2016 – CSX Q647 (Chicago, IL – Nashville, TN) heads south across CR Drawbridge in downtown Nashville, Tennessee as it makes its south to Radnor Yard. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/6 | ISO 720 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 450mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
May 18, 2016 – The sun pops through the clouds just as CSX Q028-18(Atlanta, GA – Chicago, IL) pulls out of Casky yard up the northbound lead at Hopkinsville, Ky as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision with its priority intermodal train. – Tech Info: 1/800 | f/6.3 | ISO 280 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 600mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
May 16, 2016 – CSX Q592-16 (Nashville, TN to Chicago, IL) approaches the north end of Latham Siding at Hopkinsville, Ky as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/400 | f/6 | ISO 200 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 420mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
May 10, 2016 – Fredonia Valley Railroad’s GATX/GMTX 428 lease unit begins to back its empty rock train the 7 miles back to Martin Marietta Materials after dropping off a load of rock at the Paducah and Louisville Railway yard in Princeton, Ky. – Tech Info: 1/800 | f/5 | ISO 1250 | Lens: Nikon 18mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. ?
May 10, 2016 – A Paducah and Louisville Railway DPU coal train rounds the loop at the Calvert City Loadout at Calvert City, Kentucky. I think this is the first time I can recall finding a PAL train with DPU units. It had four on the front and four on the rear of the train as it moved through the loop. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/5 | ISO 140 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 70mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
May 11, 2016 – CSXT 5109 pulls out of the siding at the north end of Romney at Nortonville, Ky with loaded ballast train, W082, as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/2000 | f/28 | ISO 200 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 29mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
May 11, 2016 – CSX T 5109 crosses over Morton Junction with loaded ballast train, W082, as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision at Mortons Gap, Ky. – Tech Info: 1/2000 | f/6 | ISO 1250 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 500mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
May 10, 2016 – Dust floats off CSX loaded ballast train, W082, as it heads into Earlington, Ky as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision with CSXT 5109 in the lead. – Tech Info: 1/2000 | f/5.6 | ISO 800 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 350mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
May 10, 2016 – CSX L025 passes over a small trestle as it approaches Mortons Junction at Mortons Gap, Ky on its way south along the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/2000 | f/2.8 | ISO 640 | Lens: Rokinon 14mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
May 10, 2016 – Paducah and Louisville Railway U of L engine 2013 leads a loaded coal train from Dotki Mine as it approaches the old Yard Limit sign at Providence, Ky on CSX’s Morganfield Branch. – Tech Info: 1/640 | f/14 | ISO 1250 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 270mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
May 11, 2016 – CSX Q597 makes it’s way up the grade at Mortons Junction in Mortons Gap, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/2000 | f/6 | ISO 720 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 with a Sigma 1.4 teleconverter @ 440mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
May 10, 2016 – CSX N013 makes it’s way down the Warrior Coal lead as it heads toward Madisonville, Ky with it’s freshly loaded coal train. It was then combined with another coal train with a DPU added for it’s trip on south on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/2000 | f/9 | ISO 1600 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 with a Sigma 1.4 teleconverter @ 850mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
May 10, 2016 – A Paducah and Louisville Railway DPU coal train rounds the loop at the Calvert City Loadout at Calvert City, Kentucky as storm clouds pass in the distance. I think this is the first time I can recall finding a PAL train with DPU units. It had four on the front and four on the rear of the train as it moved through the loop. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/5 | ISO 560 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 48mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
May 10, 2016 – “The storm has passed” – On my way home from photographing trains along the Paducah and Louisville Railway, I found myself at Kentucky Dam just at the right time to capture this ominous and beautiful scene of the storm front that moved through Western Kentucky today. – Tech Info: 1/200 | f/2.8 | ISO 640 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 56mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
May 6, 2016 – CSX empty coal train E320 pulls out of the siding at the north end of Trenton, Ky as it resumes its trip north on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/640 | f/5.6 | ISO 160 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 360mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
May 6, 2016 – CSX Q294 chases the sunset as it heads toward the north end of Trenton, Ky on its way north on the Henderson Subdivision with its manifest train. – Tech Info: 1/640 | f/6.3 | ISO 1800 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 600mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.