August 18, 2018 – Day 292 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Alien Princess – This afternoon I stopped by the Kelly Little Green Men festival at Kelly, Ky and found this Alien Princess wandering around the grounds! The festival stems from an alleged sighting of aliens back in 1955. I love roaming around small festivals like this as there’s always interesting pictures to be made!
September 17, 2014 – A BNSF intermodal heads under the signal bridge just below Hill 582 in southern California’s Cajon Pass as it heads eastbound up the pass. – #jimstrainphotos #californiarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #bnsf #bnsfrailway
August 17, 2018 – Day 291 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Junior Warriors – My great-great nephews Jayden, Damion and Xavier pose with their sensei Eric Myers after their first day in their Junior Warriors Karate Class! It was Jayden’s first day and the other two moved up from the Little Warriors class! They all did a great job! Damion wanted to do a serious pose, so no smiles or thumbs up!
August 16, 2018 – CSX X267 snakes it’s way through the S curve on track 2 between Nortonville and Romney, with BNSF 3924 leading, as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision from Nortonville, Ky. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad #bnsf #bnsfrailway
August 16, 2018 – Day 290 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Quality Time – After picking my nephew Jayden up from 1st grade we spent some quality time roaming around town looking for pictures to shoot. Here we find him checking out the photo he just shot of a vegetable peddler. If you want to see his picture head over to his page I maintain for him on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/shutterbugjayden/ or visit http://www.shutterbugkids.org/.
August 14, 2018 – CSXT 3423 leads empty autorack train X267 upgrade as it passes under the north main street overpass at Madisonville, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad
August 15, 2018 – Day 289 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Leaf – While waiting around on a small bridge for a coal train I captured this photo of a single small leaf laying on the rail and liked the simplicity of the scene.
September 23, 2014 – The last light of day reflects off the side of a eastbound Union Pacific intermodal with 8059 leading at Lordsburg, New Mexico on the Lordsburg Subdivision. – #jimstrainphotos #newmexicorailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #up #uprailroad
August 14, 2018 – Day 288 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Schools Out! – My nephew Jayden climbs into the car under the watchful eye of one of the school’s safety patrol students, as he finishes up a busy day at school. He had just given the safety patrol kid a hug before climbing in the car and that’s what the big smile is about. I missed that shot as the door covered most of the event. Maybe next time!
September 24, 2014 – A Texas Pacífico (TXPF) Railway mixed freight makes it’s way with a mix of power, consisting of CIT 407, CEFX 400, Ferromex 20141 and CEFX 2004, at Ft. Stockton, Texas.
It operates freight service over 382 miles in West Texas. The line runs from San Angelo Junction to Alpine Junction. TXPF has trackage right over UP between Alpine Junction to Paisano Junction and operates from Paisano Junction to International Bridge near Presidio, TX. TXPF has connections with UP, FXE, BNSF and FWWR.
The railroad was originally chartered in 1897 as the Colorado Valley Railroad and provided service from Colorado City to San Angelo. By 1909, the railroad had changed its name to Kansas City, Mexico and Orient of Texas and ran from the Rio Grande River to the Red River. In 1928 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe purchased the line. In 1992, ATSF transferred the right of way and fixed assets to South Orient Rural Rail Transportation District (an instrumentality of the State of Texas) and leased the line and the right to salvage to South Orient Railroad Company. In 1998, South Orient Railroad notified the STB of its intent to abandon the line. The State retained ownership of the line and the South Orient discontinued service. In 2000, Texas Pacifico Transportation Company leased the line and operations began in 2004. – #jimstrainphotos #texasrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway
August 13, 2018 – Day 287 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – First Stripe! – In case you can’t tell, my niece Elaina is very proud of her first stripe (it-s white so kind of hard to see) that she got today for speed training in her Little Warriors Karate Class.
September 8, 2014 – Utah Railway 5001 pulls away from the east end of Soldier Summit, Utah with a heavy load of coal.
According to Wikipedia, the Utah Railway operates over 423 miles of track between Grand Junction, Colorado, and Provo, Utah, of which 45 miles are owned, and the remainder operated under agreements with BNSF Railway and Union Pacific. As of January, 2017; the company no longer hauls coal. The Utah Railway also owns a subsidiary railroad, the Salt Lake City Southern Railroad, serving over 30 customers on over 25 miles of track between Salt Lake City and Draper, Utah. In addition, switching services are provided in Ogden and elsewhere. – #jimstrainphotos #utahrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway
August 12, 2018 – Day 286 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Hugs – Damion’s dad, JD, waits patiently as Damion and his cousin Jayden hug goodbye today after church as the rest of the family waits for the other kids to get out of their Worship and Wonder class.
August 2, 2018 – Canadian National 2269 leads local L513 around the curve leading out of the Paducah and Louisville Railway yard after doing interchange work. The trailing engine is PRLX 240. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #cn #pal
August 11, 2018 – Day 285 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Pumpkins – Well, let’s see, Halloween is about 80 days away, so I guess it’s time to bring out the Halloween stock at our local stores! I guess next month they’ll set out Thanksgiving! Well, if nothing else it provides me with an interesting shot for my black and white challenge today!
August 2, 2018 – A southbound loaded BNSF Coal train crosses over the Ohio River bridge from Metropolis, IL to West Paducah, Ky, as it makes it’s way toward Calvert City, Ky to the load out there. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #illinoisrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #bnsf #bnsfrailway
August 10, 2018 – Day 284 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – You never know – Today’s photo is pretty much a failed attempt, even though it’s kind of interesting to look at! I used an app called ProCamera which has a low light image stacking feature where it takes up to 64 images and combines them into a single file and I decided I’d try taking a picture of the Milky Way last night with it. This is the result! Faint outline of the trees below, what should be Mars and a lot of noise, or perhaps some of it is actually stars. Perhaps it’ll work better in brighter, low light situations. Just testing the limits of my iPhone 7 Plus! You never really know if it’ll do something unless you give it a try, in my opinion!
July 27, 2018 – A CSX mixed freight heads north as it meets a southbound Q519-26 at the north end of Nortonville as they pass each other on the two track main on the Henderson Subdivision in Nortonville, Ky. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad
August 9, 2018 – Day 283 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Take a seat – I have been eyeing the design and color of the seats around the tables at the First United Bank Plaza here in downtown Madisonville, Ky for some time. The white gravel along with the silver tables and chairs lend themselves so much to a black and white photograph that I picked them for my photo today.
October 19, 2015 – Locomotives 463 and 489 sit quietly outside the shops at Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad at Chama, New Mexico after the last day of scheduled revenue runs for the year. – #jimstrainphotos #newmexicorailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #cumbressteam #steamtrain
August 8, 2018 – Day 282 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Our Official 1st Grader – This afternoon after his first day of 1st grade I took my nephew Jayden to our local Dairy Queen for a treat! Here he’s enjoying his banana split wearing his “I’m an Official 1st Grader” hat he made in his class.