With fall color ablaze, CSX M648 heads north across Gum Lick Trestle with CSXT 7241 and 5408 leading, just north of Kelly, Kentucky on October 17th, 2022, on the Henderson Subdivision. This train runs between Rice Yard at Waycross, GA and Clearing Yard at Chicago, IL
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1500, ISO 130.
The mid-train DPU on CSX C306 speeds southward as it approaches the bridge over the Ohio River at Henderson, Kentucky, on October 28th, 2022, into the rising sun on the Henderson Subdivision. This train runs between Evansville, IN (Evansville Western Railway), White Oak Mine at Dahlgren, IL and Georgia Power’s Bowen Plant at Stilesboro, GA.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2.5sec, ISO 100.
CSXT 5475 leads aa empty grain train as it passes through Mortons Junction at Mortons Gap, Kentucky in the early fall morning light as they head northbound on the Henderson Subdivision at Milepost 268 on October 17th, 2022.
Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Sigma 150-600 @ 600mm, f/6.3, 1/500, ISO 450.
In this Infrared view we find CSX loaded grain train G351 heading south over the trestle at Sulfur Fork Creek at Springfield, Tennessee on October 15th, 2022, on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24 @ 20mm, f/4.5, 1/1000, ISO 200.
Running away from the rising sun, CSXT 3411 heads up M500 as they make their way across the Ohio River from Henderson, Kentucky on October 14th, 2022, heading north on the Henderson Subdivision toward Evansville, IN.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/4000, ISO 110.
CSXT 928 leads M513 as it navigates the S curve at Nortonville, Kentucky, during the “golden hour,” as they head south on the Henderson Subdivision on October 14th, 2022.
Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Sigma 150-600 @ 180mm, f/5, 1/400, ISO 200.
CSXT 3365 leads M513 as it creeps across the Patoka River at Patoka, Indiana at less that 10mph, due to a bad order car, toward the rear of its over 10,000-foot train as it heads south on the CSX CE&D subdivision on October 20th, 2022, in this cropped to a vertical drone photo.
Note that the drone was up and out of the way before the train even got close to the end of the bridge. The train sat out the bad car at Princeton, Indiana and continued its way to its destination at Radnor Yard in Nashville, TN.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2 Drone, RAW, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 110.
In this Infrared view we find CSX empty coal train E319 heading north as it passes the signals at the south end of the siding at Latham on October 7th, 2022, at Hopkinsville, Kentucky on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Holga 60mm pinhole lens, 1/180, ISO 1000.
CSXT 7030 leads empty grain train G026 as it passes over the cross over for the Indiana Railroad at Terre Haute, Indiana as it heads north on the CSX CE&D Subdivision on September 22nd, 2022.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8,
1/2500, ISO 100.
CSX M513 approaches the north side of the Ohio River Bridge at Henderson, Kentucky, as the early morning sunrise casts long shadows, on October 13th, 2022, as the train makes its way south up the viaduct at Rahm, Indiana over the floodplain on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO 110.
Close but no cigar! Many of you here know I’ve been trying to catch two trains at this location called Monarch here in Madisonville, Ky for a long time now, where the Paducah and Louisville Railway (PAL) crosses over the CSX Henderson Subdivision (HD) and I almost did today, October 14th, 2022.
On the lower track off in the distance sits CSX M502, a mixed fright that runs from Radnor Yard at Nashville, TN to Clearing Yard, in Chicago, IL, and was told by dispatch to stop short of the crossings through downtown Madisonville as they needed to wait on a southbound at the location know as Arklow. The southbound was still about 15 minutes out and they didnt want 502 to block all the crossings through downtown.
I setup to get him passing under the Paducah and Louisville Railway when I heard a train blowing the crossing about 3 miles away about 15 minutes into 502s wait! I had hoped dispatch would give him a signal to move during the time that this empty CSXT 294 appeared leading an empty coke train northbound on the PAL (in YN2 Paint even) arrived or was passing through on its way back from unloading at the Calvert City Terminal at Calvert City, KY. I was hoping it was a PAL train, but these days Ill take whatever I can get!
Well as you can see, M502 sat still on the HD, as the scene basked in the early morning fall light, and never moved at all until about 1 minute after this train cleared Monarch! It happens and I still love the resulting picture but isnt what I wanted and of course I plan to keep trying! Persistence will pay off!
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 100.
In this Infrared view we find CSXT 3300 on point as it leads I025 across the Diamond at Trident and the CSX Morganfield Branch, as they head south on October 7th, 2022 at Madisonville, Kentucky.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24 @ 20mm, f/4.5, 1/1000, ISO 200.
Sunlight steams down from the early morning stormy skies as CSX M513 makes its way through downtown Madisonville, Kentucky southbound on the Henderson Subdivision on October 12th, 2022, with fall color beginning to dot the landscape.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2 Drone, RAW, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/1500, ISO 110.
CSX empty grain train G026 passes under the old Louisville and Nashville Railway coaling tower at Sullivan, Indiana as it makes its way north on the first day of autumn along the CSX CE&D Subdivision on September 22, 2022.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/3000, ISO 100.
CSX B207, a combined Phosphate and Ethanol train, heads north down the viaduct from the Ohio River at Henderson, KY to Evansville, IN at dawn as its headlight lights the way on the CSX Henderson Subdivision with its train on September 22, 2022, the first day of autumn!
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/6th second, ISO 1190.
CSX Honoring our Law Enforcement locomotive 3194 leads M648 north across Gum Lick Trestle, between Kelly and Crofton, Kentucky, as the first signs of fall begin to show in the trees as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision on September 26th, 2022. Gum Lick is the highest trestle on the Henderson Subdivision, which runs between Nashville, TN and Evansville, IN.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 110.
CSX B207, a combined Phosphate and Ethanol train, heads north over the Ohio River from Henderson, KY at dawn as it slowly makes its way north on the CSX Henderson Subdivision with its train on September 22, 2022, the first day of autumn!
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/8th second, ISO 690.
CSX Intermodal I028 rolls past a empty coal train at Arklow in Madisonville, Kentucky as it heads north on the CSX Henderson Subdivision on August 30th, 2022.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1000, ISO 100.
CSX hot intermodal I025 climbs the viaduct out of Evansville, Indiana on the Henderson Subdivision on a beautiful summer morning as it heads south on July 14th, 2022. The viaduct rises up over the Ohio River flood plane out of Evansville where the trackage crosses over the river into Kentucky at Henderson. During a heavy rainy season, the river can swell to where all the farm fields visible here often get covered by floodwaters.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 100.