April 22, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville Railroad’s 70MAC 4516 leads a loaded coal train north at Central City, Ky.
April 22, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville Railroad’s 70MAC 4516 leads a loaded coal train north at Central City, Ky.
April 21, 2015 – A northbound Paducah and Louisville Railway light engine move arrives at West Yard in a light rain with lease unit Natchez Railway engine 2602 trailing behind PAL 3807, heading into the yard to drop off an engine for a northbound coal drag. The coal train’s power included U of L engine 2013 and UK engine 2012.
April 21, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville U of L engine 2013, UK engine 2012 and PAL 4522 pull a load of coal from Clay, Ky up CSX’s Morganfield Branch at Madisonville, Ky, passing the grain bins at Calhoun Feed, while heading for Trident on the Henderson Subdivision. There they will cross Trident and head through Atkinson Yard to East Diamond and onto the P&L mainline.
April 21, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville U of L engine 2013, UK engine 2012 and PAL 4522 pull a load of coal up CSX’s Henderson Subdivision cutoff to the East Diamond switch at Madisonville, Ky to interchange with the PAL mainline.
April 20, 2015 – A pretty much full house today at CSX’s engine service facility at Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, Ky.
March 28, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s 6710 leads a manifest freight southbound at Lenox Tower in Mitchell, Illinois as a tank train heads north, to the left.
March 27, 2015 – CSX engine 367 leads intermodal Q025 southbound as it splits the signals at the north end of the Slaughters, Ky siding on the Henderson Subdivision.
As usual, I attended the annual Spring Photography Weekend at Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park, in Dawson Springs, Ky. These are the images I submitted in the Masters Division for the contest. Lots of great pictures taken by the 54 participants!
The categories were: Culture, Wildflowers/Fungi, Wildlife and Scenic Beauty. There were also three bonus categories which were Crofton, Ky, Funny and “Photoshopped.”
April 14, 2015 – CSX coal train E497 heads down the Texas Line at Henderson, Ky to the Henderson Subdivision where it’ll continue it’s movement north across the Ohio River and into Evansville, Indiana.
April 14, 2015 – CSX Q025 passes a piece of MOW equipment in a siding as it heads south approaching the north end of Sebree, Ky heading south on the Henderson Subdivision.
April 14, 2015 – CSX autorack train L204, with engine 5308 in the lead, rounds the curve on the Texas Line at Henderson, Ky as it heads onto the Henderson Subdivision to continue it’s move north across the Ohio River to Evansville, In.
April 15, 2015 – Paducah & Louisville Railway Tie Train at Richland, Ky – A Paducah & Louisville RR work train drops ties along the right-of-way between MP 155 and 155.6 at Richland, Ky as it makes it’s way south towards Paducah, Kentucky.
April 14, 2015 – CSX Q647 heads south on the Henderson Subdivision after getting a green signal at the south end of the siding at Rankin, Ky, with engines 224, 7543 and 5333 as power.
April 15, 2015 – A Paducah and Louisville Maintenance of Way train makes it’s way through the Richland, Ky area dropping ties along the right-of-way, heading south with PAL 3804 in the lead and 3806 trailing.
April 14, 2015 – CSX Q029 passes the signals at the north end of the Robards, Ky siding as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision with engine 3013 in the lead.
April 14, 2015 – CSX empty coal train E497 heads off CSX’s Texas Line onto the Henderson Subdivision taking its train north at Henderson, Ky. I understand coal drags don’t usually take the Texas Line, but it was right behind autorack train L204.
April 8, 2015 – LoRam Ditching machine DC-2 heads south just past the south end of Romney siding as it heads south at Mannington, Ky for its next ditching assignment on of CSX’s Henderson Subdivision.
April 6, 2015 – A loaded coal train, with CSX engine 971 in the lead, enters the north end of Kelly siding as it makes its way south on the Henderson Subdivision at Kelly, Ky.
April 10, 2015 – While out railfanning today in Evansville, Indiana I stumbled across this minor derailment of two cars on the Pigeon Creek bridge that runs along West Ohio Street. They were on a short local being pulled by CSX Switcher 1229 with Chessie System Caboose #904138 trailing.
April 9, 2015 – CSX V188 creeps up the grade at Kelly, Ky with a empty grain train, where it pulled in behind a coal train, on the Henderson Subdivision. Both trains went into the siding to allow intermodal Q025 to pass with it’s hot cargo.
March 7, 2015 – CSX G104 approaches Rankin, Ky with engine 4769 in the lead as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision.