This week’s Saturday Infrared photo is of CSXT 981 leading a southbound loaded coal train as they meet a northbound empty grain train at Kelly, Ky, on the Henderson Subdivision on May 29th, 2023.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24 @14mm, f/4, 1/1000, ISO 200.
Kansas City Southern 4121 (Now CPKC) leads a Union Pacific train westbound out of the yard at Cheyenne, Wyoming on the Laramie Subdivision passing under the overpass for the Front Range Subdivision on March 18th, 2023 as it heads west.
Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Nikon 70-300 @70mm, f/5.6, 1/1000, ISO 320.
Union Pacific 2553 leads an eastbound mixed freight into the rising sun as it passes under the signal bridge, approaching the yard at Cheyenne, Wyoming, on the Laramie Subdivision on June 18th, 2023. Everything reflected in the water from an early morning rain adds a nice bit of drama to the image, however, the mosquitoes were terrible near it!
Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Rokinon 11mm, f/5.6, 1/500, ISO 250.
On June 28th, 2023, I tried to count the locomotives stored at the BNSF Donkey Creek Yard at Rozel, Wyoming in the two lines of locomotives from this picture, but there’s too many and seem to go on forever. The trains on the far left are coal trains, loaded and empty, waiting on crews.
According to news reports I found online, this yard was scheduled to close June 5th, 2022, affecting 38 jobs, but from what I could see there were people working in the yard, so Im not sure if that happened or not. The reported layoff was due to the tough market for coal. It has been a bit over a year and perhaps things have changed since then.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 100.
Incoming Storm, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington – Infrared Photo – Fuji XT-1 Converted to 720nm, 1/1000 sec, f/3.5, 200 ISO.
Digital Art Photo – CSXT 5111 leads G388, an empty grain express train through downtown Crofton, Ky on May 29th, 2023, as they head north on the Henderson Subdivision on a beautiful spring afternoon.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 2000, ISO 100.
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This is the reverse view during our run to Seattle, Washington of the Union Pacific MOW Equipment I caught from my recent trip and the only Union Pacific equipment I caught on this day was this Maintenance of Way equipment at The Dalles in Oregon. They were busy picking up ties on the Portland Subdivision, by The Dalles Dam, on June 20th, 2023, with UP 958200 leading the trainset and this view is from the rear of the MOW Equipment with UP 959201.
If you didn’t see yesterday’s photo you can find it on all my social media sites and website.
From what I can find online Union Pacific took delivery of the RELCO built MofW work equipment set #958200 in July 2019. The set is made up of special flats/gons and a rebuilt SD-40-2 locomotive (former number unknown). The trailing unit was numbered UP 958201.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO 140.
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Incoming Storm, Yellowstone National Park, Montana – Infrared
During our run to Seattle, Washington my sister and I traveled along the Columbia River Gorge on our recent trip and the only Union Pacific equipment I caught on this day was this Maintenance of Way equipment at The Dalles in Oregon. It was busy picking up ties on the Portland Subdivision, down from The Dalles Dam, on June 20th, 2023, with UP 958200 leading the trainset.
At the far end of the equipment, you can see where they are picking up ties along the right-of-way and I’ll be posting another shot showing that end tomorrow morning. An unusual and cool looking piece of equipment for sure!
From what I can find online Union Pacific took delivery of the RELCO built MofW work train set #958200 in July 2019. The set is made up of special flats/gons and a rebuilt SD-40-2 locomotive (former number unknown). The trailing unit was numbered UP 958201.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 100.
Today we were fortunate on the Henderson Subdivision to have the new CSX Heritage series the Seaboard System locomotive unit 1982, lead on CSX I025 after going north on I026 on 4th of July. Today I caught it as it made its way across the Ohio River Bridge between Rahm, Indiana into Henderson, Ky, on July 6th, 2023.
According to Wikipedia: The Seaboard System Railroad, Inc. (reporting mark SBD) was a US Class I railroad that operated from 1982 to 1986.
Since the late 1960s, Seaboard Coast Line Industries had operated the Seaboard Coast Line and its sister railroads—notably the Louisville & Nashville and Clinchfield—as the “Family Lines System”. In 1980, SCLI merged with the Chessie System to create the holding company CSX Corporation; two years later, CSX merged the Family Lines railroads to create the Seaboard System Railroad.
In 1986, Seaboard renamed itself CSX Transportation, which absorbed the Chessie System’s two major railroads the following year.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 100.
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This week’s Saturday Infrared photo is of CSXT 499 leading a southbound loaded coal train as they pass through Crofton Cut on the Henderson Subdivision on May 29th, 2023, just north of Crofton, Kentucky.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24 @10mm, f/4, 1/500, ISO 400.
July 8th, 2023 – Saturday Edited Video Episode 27 by Jim Pearson Photography – In this week’s edited video catch CSX I026 and I025 as they both are led by CSX new heritage unit, Seaboard System 1982 at Mortons Gap, Sebree and Trenton, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision. Next week my video will be from my 16-day cross country trip! Enjoy and please Like, Share and Subscribe! Thanks for watching! Have a Blessed Day everyone. Thanks for watching! Don’t forget to Subscribe and Ring the Notification Bell so you won’t miss any of my future videos! Have a blessed day everyone!!
A westbound BNSF intermodal passes the old depot at Chillicothe, Illinois as the light of day begins to fade on the Chillicothe Subdivision on June 30th, 2023.
According to Wikipedia: Chillicothe was an Amtrak stop in Chillicothe, Illinois; a suburb of Peoria. The station was a stop on the Southwest Chief between Chicago Union Station and Los Angeles Union Station before the alignment was changed to go via Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Mendota Subdivision in 1996.
Amtrak service at Chillicothe began on May 1, 1971, with the Chicago-Houston Texas Chief, a service previously run by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. This route was renamed the Lone Star in 1974 and discontinued in 1979.
For most of Amtrak’s first quarter-century, it was Peoria’s only link to the national rail system. The short-lived Prairie Marksman ran to East Peoria in 1980 and 1981.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/15, ISO 120.
Rapid City, Pierre, and Eastern Railroad locomotives 3433, 3469 and 3454 lead a northbound at Piedmont, South Dakota on the Black Hills Subdivision, as the rain cooperated by slacking off long enough for me to grab a few aerial shots of the trains move, on June 28th, 2023.
According to Wikipedia: Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern Railroad is a Class II freight railroad operating across South Dakota and southern Minnesota in the northern plains of the United States. Portions of the railroad also extend into Wyoming and Nebraska. It is owned and operated by Genesee & Wyoming.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/320, ISO 100.
Well, today I caught my first one of the new CSX Heritage series locomotives, the Seaboard System unit, as it made its way across the Gum Lick Trestle, between Kelly and Crofton, Kentucky. It was leading CSX I026 northbound on the Henderson Subdivision on July 4th, 2023. I like how CSX is painting these units showing the new transitioning into the old.
According to Wikipedia: The Seaboard System Railroad, Inc. (reporting mark SBD) was a US Class I railroad that operated from 1982 to 1986.
Since the late 1960s, Seaboard Coast Line Industries had operated the Seaboard Coast Line and its sister railroadsnotably the Louisville & Nashville and Clinchfieldas the “Family Lines System”. In 1980, SCLI merged with the Chessie System to create the holding company CSX Corporation; two years later, CSX merged the Family Lines railroads to create the Seaboard System Railroad.
In 1986, Seaboard renamed itself CSX Transportation, which absorbed the Chessie System’s two major railroads the following year.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/2500, ISO 150.
DIGITAL PHOTO ART – CSXT 7026 leads CSX M352, a loaded autorack train as they street run through downtown LaGrange, Kentucky, headed north on the LCL Subdivision on May 17th, 2023.
According to the Train Aficionado website: CSX runs through La Grange on what is known as the LCL Subdivision. This 101-mile line connects Covington, Kentucky, to Louisville, Kentucky. The railroad tracks run right through the heart of the town literally. The railroad tracks are embedded on the eastbound side of the roadway for the whole stretch of downtown. The trains pass the city business district which includes quaint shops and restaurants. When looking up railfanning in La Grange most websites state anywhere from 14 to 20 trains travel through here daily.
According to Hidden History of La Grange, Ky by author and local historian Nancy Stearns, LaGrange is known for its trains. It became an important junction for the railroad, with lines going to Frankfort and Cincinnati, and this made the town an important stop for travelers and businesses. The interurban electric rail car made round trips from LaGrange to Louisville daily until automobiles surpassed the interurban in popularity.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1250, ISO 100.
BNSF 9808 and 8843, lead a mixed freight past the Community Evangelical Free Church (Depot Church) at Deer Lodge, Montana, on June 26th, 2023, as it heads north after completing a pickup at one of the local industries in Deer Lodge. The depot used to belong to the Milwaukee Road and saw passenger service until sometime in 1964.
According to the waymarking.com website:
“Deer Lodge was the division headquarters for the Milwaukee Road (MILW), officially known as the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, until their demise in 1980. Here, the MILW was electrified until June 15, 1974, when the conversion to diesel-electric locomotives retired all the line’s electric locomotives. At one time Deer Lodge was the site of large railroad yards, shops, and a roundhouse. The roadbed and many of the bridges are still intact across Montana, with BNSF trains passing by daily during the week.
On what was known as the Pacific Extension, which extended the MILW lines in the Midwest to the Pacific Ocean, this station would have been built about 1907 or 1908. The 2,300-mile-long extension was built in 1906-1909. One of the premiere passenger trains ever to run on this continent, the Olympian Hiawatha, stopped here until it was discontinued in May of 1961, ostensibly for lack of passenger traffic. It turned out that ridership was still showing respectable numbers, but the train was unprofitable, nonetheless. Replacement trains continued to make Deer Lodge a stop until 1964, when the western terminus of passenger service was pulled back to Aberdeen, South Dakota.
Though we can’t say what, or who, occupied the station in the interim, it is today home to the Community Evangelical Free Church. Here in Deer Lodge, you can actually see what used to run by. About half a mile south on Main Street is an outdoor museum of railway vehicles, with a couple of old MILW engines and a caboose on display.”
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO 110.
Bighorn sheep, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming – While I didn’t catch a lot of wildlife during our visit to Yellowstone on our trip, I did get several shots I’m very happy with that I’ll be sharing in the next couple weeks. I know they aren’t trains, but I do shoot other things! I hope you enjoy them! Landscapes will be coming as well!
Union Pacific 8794 leads a westbound mixed freight as it meets an eastbound at one of the many bridges and tunnels on the Evanston Subdivision, around Morgan, Utah, on June 19th, 2023.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1250, ISO 210.
Well, we arrived back from our 16-day trip across the USA last night so the photos you’ll see for awhile are images I captured from our 6,500-mile trip to Washington state and back! It was a long, but great trip my sister and I shared, some of which with you all!
I haven’t done totals of how many images, analog and digital, yet to share, but I will in a future post over the next day or so. Thanks to all the folks who offered suggestions on where to find trains, many of them became helpful in my search for them!
This shot of Union Pacific 8794 leading a westbound mixed freight heads out of as it heads into Uintah, Utah, on June 19th, 2023, on the Evanston Subdivision, which was on day 3 of our trip!
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/1000, ISO 340.
In this week’s edited video catch trains in Western Kentucky and northern Tennessee! We’ll see trains at Mortons Gap, Ky, Dawson Springs, Ky, Ridgetop, TN, Courtland, TN and Calvert City, Ky. These videos feature the CSX Law Enforcement Unit, the Paducah and Louisville Railway and BNSF loaded coal and other interesting CSX moves. Enjoy and please Like, Share and Subscribe! Thanks for watching! Have a Blessed Day everyone. Thanks for watching! Don’t forget to Subscribe and Ring the Notification Bell so you won’t miss any of my future videos! Have a blessed day everyone!!