CSX meet at Slaughters, Ky
With shades of color beginning to show in the surrounding trees, a northbound CSX 028, with CSXT 3153 and 3165 leading, passes the DPU end (CSXT 722) of a southbound CSX Q503 in the siding at Slaughters, Kentucky on the Henderson, kentucky on October 12, 2020.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Mini Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/200, ISO 200.
Ethanol Train Meet at Mortons Junction
BNSF 6357 heads up loaded ethanol train CSX K707 as waits on the Earlington Cutoff at Mortons Junction, as empty ethanol train CSX K423 heads north on the Earlington main, on the Henderson Subdivision at Mortons Gap, Ky.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Mini Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO 200.
Northbound Ballast Train
CSXT 5201 leads J009-12 as it waits on the south side of CP Anaconda at Robards, Kentucky with a loaded ballast train, as it waits for a signal to continue north on the Henderson Subdivision on October 12, 2020.
It was headed north to Henderson, Kentucky where it dropped this load of ballast along the River Branch at Henderson, Kentucky.
#trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #dronephotography
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Mini Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/320, ISO 200.
Northbound!
CSX hot intermodal Q026-11 (Jacksonville, FL to Chicago, IL) passes the old Louisville & Nashville Railway Depot, as it rolls through downtown Madisonville, Kentucky on its way north on the Henderson Subdivision on October 12, 2020.
Madisonville’s remodeled train station (opened in September 1929) at 38 West Arch Street station is currently being used as a Kentucky Innovation Station, which is a co-working and business-incubation space.
Small-business owner-operators, traveling professionals and students can work independently of one another, but in a modernized shared office space, which also houses the offices of Madisonville-Hopkins County Economic Development Corporation.
#trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Mini Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 200.
Crofton Cut or Sandcut… your pick!
CSXT 3230 leads Q025-26 as it heads south through the location on the Henderson Subdivision that is called “Crofton Cut or Sand Cut” by the crews as they pass through. It’s located a bit north of Crofton, Kentucky and around MP 255 off of hwy 41. – September 26, 2020
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Mini Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 100.
October 1, 2020 – CSX Q025 heads across the Red River bridge, just north of Adams, Tennessee as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision with CSXT 3374 and 3434 leading the way.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Mini Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/1000, ISO 100.
October 7, 2020 – Paducah and Louisville Railway crew runs PRX3 south across the bridge at Kentucky Dam with a loaded CSX coal train at Gilbertsville, Ky as it heads for the Calvert City Terminal at Calvert City, Ky with another load as CSXT 63 leads the way.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Mini Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/2500, ISO 100.
August 26, 2020 – A southbound CSX Q501 passes a northbound CSX Q648 at Nortonville, Kentucky on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Mini Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/1000, ISO 200.
October 5, 2020 – CSXT 598 snakes its way off the east diamond lead, with a Paducah and Louisville Railway crew on empty coal train PAL PNX1, onto the CSX Henderson Subdivision at Madisonville, Ky after bringing it back from Calvert City Loadout at Calvert City, Ky.
Tech Info: Full Frame Nikon D800, RAW, Sigma 150-600 @ 500mm, f/9, 1/1000, ISO 2000.
September 12, 2020 – CSX Q683 heads over the Patoka River at Patoka, Indiana as it heads south on the CSX CE&D Subdivision.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Mini Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/200, ISO 100.
September 26, 2020 – CSXT 834 leads Q647 (Chicago, IL (BRC) – Waycross, GA) through downtown Crofton, Kentucky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Mini Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/640, ISO 100.
October 1, 2020 – CSX Q512 (Waycross, GA – Avon, IN Daily) passes CSX Q503 (Chicago, IL (BRC) – Nashville, TN Daily) sitting in the siding at Kelly, Kentucky as 512 heads north on the Henderson Subdivision to Avon, IN.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Mini Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/2500, ISO 100.
September 26, 2020 – CSX local J732 crosses over the north fork of the Little River, passing the Holland Substation for the Hopkinsville Electric System, as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision at Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Mini Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/240, ISO 200.
September 26, 2020 – CSXT 3159 leads Q648 (Waycross, GA – Chicago, IL) across the Gum Lick Trestle, north of Kelly, Kentucky, as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Mini Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/400, ISO 100.
September 27, 2020 – Kansas City Southern 4054 and 4744 lead loaded ethanol train, CSX K443-26, as it pulls out of the south end of Rankin siding as it continues its move south on the Henderson Subdivision at Rankin, Kentucky.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Mini Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/240, ISO 100.
September 26, 2020 – CSXT 3159 leads northbound CSX Q648 past the old Louisville and Nashville (L&N) depot in downtown Hopkinsville, Ky as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision.
According to Wikipedia: The L & N Railroad Depot in the Hopkinsville Commercial Historic District of Hopkinsville, Kentucky is a historic railroad station on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in 1892.
The year 1832 saw the first of many attempts to woo a railroad to Hopkinsville. This first attempt was to connect Hopkinsville to Eddyville, Kentucky. In 1868 Hopkinsville finally obtained a railroad station, operated by the Evansville, Henderson, & Nashville Railroad. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad acquired the railroad in 1879.
The Hopkinsville depot is a single-story frame building with a slate roof. It has six rooms: a Ladies Waiting room (the room closest to the street), a General Waiting Room, a Colored Waiting Room, a baggage room (the furthest room from the street), a ticket office (the only room which connected to all three waiting rooms), and a ladies’ restroom. Immediately outside were warehouses for freight, usually tobacco.
Its last long distance train was the Louisville and Nashville’s Georgian, last operating in 1968.
During its operating years, the Hopkinsville depot was a popular layover spot for those traveling by train. It was the only Louisville & Nashville station between Evansville, Indiana and Nashville, Tennessee where it was legal to drink alcohol. Hopkinsville got the nickname “Hop town” due to train passengers asking the conductors when they would arrive at Hopkinsville, so they could “hop off and get a drink”.
The Hopkinsville L & N Railroad Depot was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 1, 1975. It was last used by the Pennyrile Arts Council and from what I last heard it is empty. CSX, which bought out the Louisville & Nashville, still run trains on the tracks next to the depot, but do not stop.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Mini Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 320, ISO 100.
September 22, 2020 – CSXT 290 leads K997 across Trident as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision at Madisonville, Kentucky.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Mini Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/1000, ISO 100.
September 17, 2020 – CSXT 3411 and 3087 lead Q503 south across the bridge over the Red River as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision at Adams, Tennessee.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Mini Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/640, ISO 100.
September 17, 2020 – CSXT 3439 and 275 lead loaded coal train CSX N040 south on the Henderson Subdivision as it approaches the John Rivers Rd. crossing at south Casky in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Mini Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/320, ISO 100.
September 17, 2020 – CSXT 3439 and 20 lead CSX Q026-16 across the Sulfur Creek Trestle, north of Springfield, TN as they lead the hot intermodal north on the Henderson Subdivision to Chicago, IL from Jacksonville, FL.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Mini Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 100.
September 15, 2020 – CSX Q513-15 sits at the south end of Howell Yard after making a pickup as it waits for CSX Q028, 648 and 512 to clear his location so it can continue its move south on the Henderson Subdivision, with United States Army 4607 and 1869 running dead in tow as its last two units.
Both Army units have been refurbished and I found out that 4607 is heading to Hopkinsville, KY (Ft. Campbell) and 1869 is heading to Leland, NC.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Mini Drone, JPG, 4.5mm (24mm equivalent lens) f/2.8, 1/640, ISO 100.