April 21, 2015 – P&L leasing Natchez Railway unit

04.21.15 - Natchez Railway at West Yard 1, Madisonville, 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.

04.21.15 - Natchez Railway at West Yard 2, Madisonville, Ky

April 21, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville on CSX’s Morganfield Branch at Madisonville, Ky

04.21.15 - PAL 2013, 2012 at Pride Avenue, Madisonville, Ky

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.

2015 Pennyrile Spring Photography Weekend

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 Q025 at Sebree, Ky

04.14.15 CSX Q025 SB at Sebree, Ky

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 at Henderson, Ky

04.14.15 CSX L204 on Texas Line at Henderson, Ky

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 14, 2015 – CSX Q647 at Rankin, Ky

04.14.15 CSX Q647 SB at S. Rankin, Ky

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 Tie Train

04.15.15 PAL MOW at MP 155 Richland, Ky

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.

04.15.15 PAL MOW at Campbell Road Crossing, Richland, Ky

April 14, 2015 – CSX Q029 at Robards, Ky

04.14.15 CSX Q029 SB at Robards, Ky

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 on the Texas Line

04.14.15 CSX E497 at Henderson, Ky

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

04.08.15 Loram Ditcher DC-2 1 at Mannington, Ky

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.

04.08.15 Loram Ditcher DC-2 2 at Mannington, Ky

April 6, 2015 – A loaded coal train

04.06.15 CSX SB Loaded Coal Train, Engine 971, Kelly, Ky

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 Minor Derailment

04.10.15 CSX derailment-switcher 1229, Evansville, In

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.

04.10.15 CSX derailment-cars, Evansville, In

April 9, 2015 – CSX V188

04.09.15 CSX empty grain train T188 NB at Kelly, Ky

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.