January 7, 2016 – A Evansville Western Railway local, with engine 3836 in the lead, works at dropping off and picking up cars at the north end of Nations Siding, just outside Mount Vernon, Indiana. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/6.3 | ISO 1100 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 600mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 8, 2016 – Norfolk Southern engine 8975 heads up a loaded coke train as it heads south on the Paducah and Louisville Railway through Charleston, Ky. – Tech Info: 1/400 | f/2.8 | ISO 1400 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 62mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 8, 2016 – CSX Q124 passes the intermediate signal at Earlington, Ky as it leads it’s intermodal north on the Henderson Subdivision with 3186 in the lead. – Tech Info: 1/400 | f/6 | ISO 200 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 480mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 7, 2016 – CSX Q294-07 heads down the viaduct off the Ohio River bridge at Henderson, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/6 | ISO 500 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 440mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 6, 2016 – Paducah and Louisville Railway’s 2105 prepares to head south from West Yard in Madisonville, Ky with a loaded coal train bound for Calvert City Loadout as the last light of the day begins to fade from the sky. – Tech Info: 1/620 | f/6.3 | ISO 800 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 70mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 6, 2016 – The warm light of the late afternoon sun shines on SOO 6037, CP Units 6241 & 2218 and PAL 4511 as they set in the engine service facility at CSX’s Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, Ky. – Tech Info: 1/2000 | f/2.8 | ISO 140 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 52mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 5, 2016 – CSX loaded grain train G166 pulls out of the siding at Sebree, KY as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/2000 | f/5.6 | ISO 200 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 280mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 5, 2016 – CSX Intermodal Q029 passes the old Louisville & Nashville railroad depot at Madisonville, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/2000 | f/6 | ISO 560 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 480mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 3, 2016 – A loaded CSX coal train prepares approaches Monarch in Madisonville, Ky with engine 5230 in the lead as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/640 | f/6.3 | ISO 200 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 600mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 1, 2016 – A empty CSX coal train prepares to climb the grade as it heads through Mortons Junction at Mortons Gap, Ky, heading north on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/6 | ISO 900 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 480mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 1, 2016 – CSX Q586-01 approaches the north end of Romney siding at Nortonville, Ky as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/6 | ISO 1800 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 440mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 2, 2016 – At dusk, CSX Q647 heads through Trenton, Ky, as it makes it’s way south on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/640 | f/2.8 | ISO 3600 | Lens: Nikon 18mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 2, 2016 – Just after sunset, a loaded CSX coal train sits at the south end of Casky Yard in Hopkinsville, Ky waiting for a crew to take it on south on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/125 | f/5.6 | ISO 4000 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 310mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 1, 2016 – Two CSX hot intermodals, southbound Q025-01, left and northbound Q124-01, meet at the north end of the siding at Kelly, Ky as they make their way along the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/5.6 | ISO 250 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 270mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 1, 2016 – For my first train post of the year we find CSX Q028-01 climbing the grade at Kelly, Ky as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision with a full load of containers. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/6 | ISO 450 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 440mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
November 30, 2015 – CSX Q294-30 makes it’s way under the Paducah and Louisville Railway overpass at Monarch in Madisonville, Ky as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/500 | f/6 | ISO 800 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 400mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. ?
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September 12, 2015 – The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 4501 returns to the station at the museum after turning on the wye at Citco Junction on Norfolk Southern’s mainline, during it’s return trip from Cleveland on the Norfolk Southern Mainline at Chattanooga, Tennessee with a loaded passenger train during 2015 Railfest.
4501 was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1911 for the Southern Railway, the 4501 was the first of its class on that railroad. The wheel arrangement is a 2-8-2, known as a Mikado since the first of this type were sold to Japan. 4501 served the Southern until the 1940s when the railroad began buying diesel locomotives and phasing out steam operations. It then then saw service on a small coal-hauling railroad in Kentucky. Since the mid-1960s, 4501 has pulled countless passenger excursion trains across the Southern (later Norfolk Southern) Railway. The 4501 ended its service in 1999 due to rising maintenance costs. However, with the start of Norfolk Southerns 21st Century Steam program, the 4501 returned to service this year.
Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/7, ISO 250, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 12, 2015 – The conductor on Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern diesel unit 2594, A GP30 built in 1963, unlocks the switch at Chattanooga, Tennessee on it’s dinner train run at the turn around point, where they run the engine around the train, as the glow of sunset illuminates the scene. Tech Info: 1/1000sec, f/5.6, ISO 360, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 240mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.