July 24, 2019 – CSXT 3184 leads Q583, under the NS SB Line at Catawba, South Carolina as it heads north on the Monroe Subdivision. I missed a over and under shot by about 5 minutes with an unusual afternoon P83 move on the NS line, but that’s the way it goes sometimes.
July 23, 2019 – Lancaster and Chester Railroad train 14, with 2829 leading, picks up their eastbound loads at the yard in Richburg, South Carolina as train 12, with 7092 leading, waits in the siding so it can begin its return westbound move.
July 10, 2019 – CSX W222-10 heads north on the Henderson Subdivision at MP 253 at Crofton, Ky with CSXT 226 leading.
July 6, 2019 – CSX Q028-06 passes through the signals at the north end of Latham Siding at Hopkinsville, Kentucky as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision.
July 19, 2019 – Canadian National 3880 leads CSX empty grain train, V240-17 up the grade out of Mortons Gap, Kentucky as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision.
July 20, 2019 – CSX Q025-20, one of CSX’s hottest intermodals on the Henderson Subdivision, is led south from the north end of the siding at Slaughters, Ky by CSXT 3440.
July 20, 2019 – Today as I and fellow photographer, Tom Wortham, were waiting to judge a photography contest at Dixon in Webster County, Kentucky, I found another light for my ongoing series. Hope you enjoy!
July 20, 2019 – CSXT 869 heads up loaded coal train N010-18 as it heads through the south end of Breton Siding on the main, on its way south on the Henderson Subdivision.
July 19, 2019 – Canadian National 3880 leads CSX empty grain train, V240-17 through Slaughters, Kentucky as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision as the engineer Mr Goldsberry gives a friendly wave.
July 13, 2019 – Norfolk Southern 167 pulls out of the east end of the Princeton, Indiana yard at East Douglas, as it pulled up to County Road 350 where it waited for two westbounds to pass, before it continued east on the NS Southern East District.
September 27, 2011 – BNSF 7726 leads a manifest train up the Cajon Pass as the sun dips low in the sky on its way east on the Cajon Subdivision, just below the famous Hill 582, below the Cajon Summit in southern California.
July 13, 2019 – Norfolk Southern 9073 leads train 275 through CB Junction as it heads east at Mt. Carmel, Illinois with an autorack train at milepost 150.1 on the NS Southern West District.
July 9, 2019 – CSXT 3091 and 3088 lead a loaded grain train through the Center Street crossing in downtown Madisonville, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision, on a beautiful summer afternoon.
July 10, 2019 – CSXT 226 leads CSX W222-10 as it splits the signals at Mortons Junction as it pulls north on the Henderson Subdivision at Mortons Gap, Kentucky.
July 13, 2019 – Norfolk Southern loaded coal train 71T snakes its way down the grade at East Douglas on the NS Southern-East District at Princeton, Indiana as it heads for Duke Energy at Mt. Carmel, Illinois.
July 15, 2019 – LoRam Badger Ditching machine, DC-2, works along the power siding at the south end of CSX’s Atkinson Yard at Madisonville, Kentucky, as it works its way north on the Henderson Subdivision.
According to the Loram website: The Badger Ditcher is a self-propelled ditch cleaner that is capable of moving 1,000 tons of material every hour, excavating at up to 22 feet from the center of the track. The Loram ditch cleaner creates a properly sloped ditch that intercepts and diverts water away from the track. The ditchers high-speed, high-performance ditching wheel digs in and picks up mud and water. As the wheel digs the ditch, water begins to flow.
The Badger Ditcher helps manage, remedy and prevent the damaging effects from a host of penetrating water sources, including direct precipitation, groundwater migration, springs and trapped water, saturation and seepage. Ditch maintenance best practices using the Badger Ditcher lets railroads improve vital drainage for the subgrade, lower the water table, control run-off and promote free flow from the ballast section that can extend the effective duration of undercutting and ballast cleaning cycles.
July 13, 2019 – NS 167, led by NS 9412, passes Consolidated Grain and Barge Company at Lyles Station, MP 157, as it heads east on the NS Southern West District at Lyles Station, Indiana.
According to Wikipedia, Lyles or Lyles Station is an unincorporated community in Patoka Township, Gibson County, Indiana. The community dates from 1849, although its early settlers first arrived in the 1830s, and it was formally named Lyles Station in 1886 to honor Joshua Lyles, a free African American who migrated with his family from Tennessee to Indiana around 1837. Lyles Station is one of Indiana’s early black rural settlements and the only one remaining.
The rural settlement reached its peak in the years between 1880 and 1912, when major structures in the community included the railroad depot, a post office, a lumber mill, two general stores, two churches, and a school. By the turn of the twentieth century,
Lyles Station had fifty-five homes, with a population of more than 800 people. The farming community never fully recovered from the Great Flood of 1913, which destroyed much of the town. Most of its residents left for economic reasons, seeking opportunities for higher paying jobs and additional education in larger cities.
By 1997 approximately fifteen families remained at Lyles Station, nearly all of them descended from the original settlers.
September 25, 2011 – BNSF 7567 and 7209 lead a long intermodal freight, elephant style, as they head east through Campbell Pass at the Continental Divide, New Mexico.
July 13, 2019 – CSXT 3294 leads Q025-13 as it heads through the south end of CSX’s Howell Yard, on its way south along the Henderson Subdivision.
July 10, 2019 – Canadian National 8947 and 2255 lead CSX V257-09 and two other CSXT units as they approach the road crossing just north of Gum Lick Trestle, hauling a mixed load of empty grain and ethanol cars as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision.
July 10, 2019 – CSX local J732-10 passes over the Gum Lick Trestle, north of Kelly, Ky, as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision to Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, Ky.