July 27, 2015 – United States Army GenSets 6519 and 6520 heads through an open field along highway 41A, as they move a loaded military train from Ft. Campbell Army Post to CSX’s Fort Campbell Wye in Hopkinsville, Ky. There CSX picked up the train and took it on north on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/2000sec, f/4.5, ISO 125, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 82mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
July 16, 2015 – CSX engine 5423 leads an empty grain train onto the CSX’s Henderson subdivision as it heads north at Amqui, Tn. This is the start of the Henderson Sub, or the end, depending which view you take. – Tech Info: 1/1600sec, f/5, ISO 250, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 180mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
July 27, 2015 – United States Army GenSets 6519 and 6520 pass an old general store at the Fidelio Road Crossing in Pembroke, Ky, as they move a loaded military train from Ft. Campbell Army Post to CSX’s Fort Campbell Wye in Hopkinsville, Ky. There CSX picked up the train and took it on north on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/2000sec, f/2.8, ISO 125, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
July 25, 2015 – CSX Q588-25, (Nashville, TN – Chicago, IL), rounds the curve at Nortonville, Ky as it heads north through the Romney siding on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/2000sec, f/4.8, ISO 2000, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 145mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
July 25, 2015 – CSX Q588-25, (Nashville, TN – Chicago, IL), heads up the grade from Mortons Gap, Ky as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/2000sec, f/5.6, ISO 4000, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
July 22, 2015 – Loaded grain train CSX G102, (Martinsville, IL – Rockmart, GA), passes the signals at the north end of Casky as it moves south on the Henderson Subdivision at Hopkinsville, Ky. – Tech Info: 1/2000sec, f/2.8, ISO 160, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
July 16, 2015 – A CSX empty coal train, with engine 856 in the lead, passes the signals at MP 153.3 approaching the Earlington Road Crossing in Richland, Ky as it heads north on the Paducah and Louisville Railway toward Madisonville, Ky to pickup another load of coal. – Tech Info: 1/1600sec, f/2.8, ISO 400, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
July 22, 2015 – CSX work train W007 passes the signals at the south end of Latham Siding as it moves it’s loaded ballast train north on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/2000sec, f/5.6, ISO 900, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
July 22, 2015 – CSX X788 pulls away from the north end of Pembroke as it heads through the the north end of Casky on track 2 as it makes it’s way north on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/2000sec, f/5.6, ISO 720, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
June 26, 2015 – CSX 848 leads a freight across the La Rue Hills Bridge just outside Wolf, Illinois as it heads north on Union Pacific’s Chester Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/5.6, ISO 1000, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
July 22, 2015 – CSX W007 passes the north end of the siding at Kelly, Ky as it moves it’s ballast train north on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info all photos: 1/2000sec, f/2.8, ISO 160, Lens: Rokinon 14mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
July 16, 2015 – CSX Q535 takes the cross-over as it approaches Fogg Street in Nashville, Tennessee on it’s way north with engine 7751 in the lead. – Tech Info: 1/1600sec, f/5.6, ISO 500, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
July 16, 2015 – CSX engine 696 pulls intermodal Q026 northbound at Romney siding as it approaches Nortonville, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/40sec, f/2.8, ISO 640, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 42mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
July 16, 2015 – A loaded CSX coal train sits idle at the south end of CSX’s Casky Inspection Yard glowing in the late evening crew while it waits for it’s crew to take the train on south on the Henderson Subdivision from Hopkinsville, Ky. – Tech Info: 1/500sec, f/5.6, ISO 100, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
July 16, 2015 – A empty CSX coal train with engine 119 in the lead heads across the Sulfur Creek Trestle at Springfield, Tennessee as it moves north on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info all photos: 1/1600sec, f/2.8, ISO 100, Lens: Rokinon 14mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
July 16, 2015 – CSX Q592 approaches the Williams Avenue crossing at Amqui, Tennessee as it moves north with it’s manifest train. – Tech Info: 1/1600sec, f/4.5, ISO 250, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 70mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW
July 16, 2015 – CSX loaded autorack Q211 approaches the Fogg Street crossing in Nashville, Tennessee as it heads south toward CSX’s Radnor Yard pulling over 8,000 feet of cargo, with engine 5015 in the lead. – Tech Info: 1/1600sec, f/5.6, ISO 560, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
June 26, 2015 – A set of BNSF engines pull a heavy coal train south on Union Pacific’s Chester Subdivision as they approach Gorham, Illinois. Traffic was being re-routed from across the river due to flooding. – Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/5.6, ISO 450, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 195mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
July 7, 2015 – CSX engine 700 pulls it’s loaded coal train out of the Kelly, Ky siding as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision at dusk. – Tech Info: 1/500sec, f/2.8, ISO 560, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 70mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW
July 17, 2015 – I got a bit far from the tracks today! Our local photography club, West Kentucky Photography Club of which I’m their president, had a Milky Way Photography Event at Pennyrile Forest in Dawson Springs, Ky. Here’s three of my favorite shots from the shoot! – Tech Info all photos: 30sec, f/2.8, ISO 4000, Lens: Rokinon 14mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. Click on each photo for a larger view.
July 16, 2015 – CSX locomotive 2427 (SD40-2) with Yard slug 1065 trailing, heads south from the hump yard area of CSX’s Radnor Yard in Nashville, Tennessee and being controlled remotely from the front of the engine. – Tech Info: 1/1600sec, f/4.5, ISO 200, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 70mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.