June 26, 2015 – Union Pacific’s 1688 rounds the curve heading north on the Chester Subdivision approaching the La Rue Hills bridge at Wolf, Illinois with an autorack train. – Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/5.6, ISO 720, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 270mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos
June 6, 2015 – A Union Pacific Railroad autorack train meets a southbound manifest at Gorham, Illinois as it makes its way north on the Chester Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/1250 sec, f/5.6, ISO 500, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos
June 26, 2015 – Southbound CN manifest train with engine 5721 as it’s leading engine, waits for a green signal at Chiles Junction in Paducah, Ky as light fades from the day. CN is the lower track and the upper track belongs to Paducah & Louisville Railway. – Tech Info: 1/320sec, f/5.6, ISO 4000, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 185mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos
June 26, 2015 – Southbound CN manifest train with engine 5721 in the lead, heads south at Chiles Junction in Paducah, Ky as light fades from the day. – Tech Info: 1/200sec, f/5.6, ISO 4000, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 70mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos
June 25, 2015 – Southbound CSX Q597, with engine 901 in the lead, meets E015, a northbound empty coal train, at Crofton, Ky as it makes it’s way Nashville, Tn from Chicago, Ill on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/2000sec, f/5.6, ISO 640, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 260mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos
A gallery of images from CSX’s new Casky Inspection Yard at Hopkinsville, Ky
June 24, 2015 – Ex-Virginia Railway Express commuter locomotive 217, at least as far as I can find out, is moved into the siding at CSX’s south yard at Atkinson in Madisonville, Ky by CSX Q597. Afterwards the crew picks up the last of it’s cars before heading south on the Henderson Subdivision. As of 4:30 CST this engine was till setting at the south yard. It was dropped off by P&L on June 23, 2015. – Tech Info: 1/800sec, f/14, ISO 1000, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ various focal lengths with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos
June 24, 2015 – Ex-Virginia Railway Express commuter locomotive 217, at least as far as I can find out, is moved into the siding at CSX’s south yard at Atkinson in Madisonville, Ky by CSX Q597. Afterwards the crew picks up the last of it’s cars before heading south on the Henderson Subdivision. As of 4:30 CST this engine was till setting at the south yard. It was dropped off by P&L on June 23, 2015. – Tech Info: 1/800sec, f/14, ISO 1000, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ various focal lengths with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos
June 24, 2015 – Ex-Virginia Railway Express commuter locomotive 217, at least as far as I can find out, is moved into the siding at CSX’s south yard at Atkinson in Madisonville, Ky by CSX Q597. Afterwards the crew picks up the last of it’s cars before heading south on the Henderson Subdivision. As of 4:30 CST this engine was till setting at the south yard. It was dropped off by P&L on June 23, 2015. – Tech Info: 1/800sec, f/14, ISO 1000, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ various focal lengths with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos
June 24, 2015 – A Conductor watches Norfolk Southern’s 8081 pull through the switch out onto the main from the siding at Cimarron Mine in Madisonville, Ky after doing a run-around of it’s loaded coal train, while they prepare to hook onto the rear to start their movement north on the Paducah and Louisville Railway. – Tech Info: 1/800sec, f/14, ISO 1000, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos
June 24, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s 8081 heads north at Cimarron Mine in Madisonville, Ky with it’s loaded coal train, on the Paducah and Louisville Railway.
June 22, 2015 – United States Army Genset 6524 sits outside the back gate of National Railway Equipment’s shops in Paducah, Ky, where it waits to be picked up by the Paducah and Louisville Railway for movement to Madisonville, Ky for interchange with CSX. The last one went south on the Henderson Subdivision. Don’t know where it’s headed from there. Tech Info: 1/800sec, f/14, ISO 1000, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos
June 22, 2015 – Fresh out of the paint shop at NRE (National Railway Equipment Co.) in Paducah, Ky, Paducah and Louisville’s engine 4522 sports a brand new UK paint scheme showing all the years that the University of Kentucky has won a NCAA National Championship. This is one of series of photographs I’ll be doing for P&L over the next few months. Thanks to P&L for allowing me to share it with you. – Tech Info: 1/800sec, f/7, ISO 140, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos
June 22, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville Railway’s University of Louisville engine 3801 and University of Kentucky engine 1998 sit in the yard at Paducah, Ky as they wait on a crew. – Tech Info: 1/800sec, f/14, ISO 450, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 40mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos
June 17, 2015 – RJ Corman engine 5361 leads a empty train of flat cars, used to haul aluminum ingots, northbound at Frankfort Street in Louisville, Ky on CSX’s Louisville Terminal Subdivision. Tech Info: 1/800sec, f/8, ISO 320, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 125mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos
June 17, 2015 – RJ Corman engine 5361 leads a empty train of flat cars, used to haul aluminum ingots, northbound approaching the crossing at Frankfort Street in Louisville, Ky on CSX’s Louisville Terminal Subdivision. Thanks to all the folks in Louisville that pointed out some locations for my short shoot today, especially Jeff Wagoner!
June 9, 2015 – CSX light engine move X790-09 heads south on the Henderson Subdivision with Pan Am Railways and United States Army’s USAX 6523 on the tail end of their consist at Pembroke, Ky.
June 9, 2015 – CSX light engine move X790-09 heads south on the Henderson Subdivision with Pan Am Railways and United States Army’s USAX 6523 on the tail end of their consist at Pembroke, Ky.
June 8, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville’s LGE train sits in the pouring rain as they prepare to depart Cimarron Mine in Madisonville, Ky for the Louisville Gas & Electric plant with UK 2012 and UL 2013 as their leading units. Tech Info: 1/1600sec, f/5.6, ISO 560, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos
June 8, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville’s UK engine 2012 and UL 2013 head through head down CSX Henderson Subdivision’s cutoff at Madisonville, Ky with a loaded coal train for Louisville Gas and Electric. The train came off CSX’s Morganfield Branch from Clay, Ky and went onto the P&L at East Diamond, where it went on north to Louisville. Tech Info: 1/1600sec, f/3.2, ISO 200, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos
June 8, 2015 – I caught this lone deer standing in the fog on the Paducah and Louisville’s right-of-way at the highway 175 crossing just outside Bremen, Ky while I was waiting for the northbound Louisville Gas & Electric (LGE) coal train. Tech Info: 1/1600sec, f/5.6, ISO 4000, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos
June 8, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville’s Louisville Gas & Electric loaded coal train passes the signal just before the highway 175 crossing just outside Bremen, Ky as it heads north with University of Kentucky engine 2012 on point, cutting through the fog. Tech Info: 1/1000sec, f/5.6, ISO 3200, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos
June 8, 2015 – CSX Geometry Train W001 heads north, just past Monarch at MP 274 in Madisonville, Ky as it heads north with engine 6025, the Columbia Car and Geometry Car (no numbers) on the Henderson Subdivision. Tech Info: 1/1600sec, f/4.5, ISO 900, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @70mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos
June 2, 2015 – SVTX 1912 with Evansville Western Railway’s 4520 trailing, makes it’s way up the Vectren Lead to the Sitran Coal Dock at West Franklin, IN, with a load of coal. In one of the shots you can see the train approaching the Illinois Terminal Heritage Unit 1072, which was getting ready to depart after the 1912 got into the dock’s loop.
June 2, 2015 – SVTX 1912 with Evansville Western Railway’s 4520 trailing, makes it’s way up the Vectren Lead to the Sitran Coal Dock at West Franklin, IN, with a load of coal. In one of the shots you can see the train approaching the Illinois Terminal Heritage Unit 1072, which was getting ready to depart after the 1912 got into the dock’s loop.
June 2, 2015 – Thanks to a heads up post by fellow railfan and great photographer Tom Barrows of Evansville, IN, I was able to catch my second Norfolk Southern Heritage Unit today! When we arrived at the overlook to the Sitran Coal Dock and Abengoa ethanol plant at West Franklin, IN, the weather was overcast and it looked like the it was going to be fairly bad, but the sun finally came out just as the train was leaving with Illinois Terminal Heritage Unit 1072 in the lead. The Vectren power plant is in the background of some of the shots.The Illinois Terminal railroad along with many others was bought up by Norfork Southern years ago and NS has repainted about 20 of their engines in the paint schemes of many of those roads.
