Jim Pearson Photography – Page 232

May 2, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville Railway at McHenry, Ky

May 2, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville Railroad’s University of Louisville engine 2013 heads up northbound loaded coal train with University of Kentucky engine 2012 trailing behind on LSX1 at McHenry, Ky. Tracks in the foreground lead out to the Armstrong Mine.

May 2, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville Railway 2013 at Horse Branch, Ky

May 2, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville Railroad’s University of Louisville engine 2013 heads up northbound loaded coal train, LSX1, at Horse Branch, Ky.

May 2, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville’s U of L engine 2013

May 2, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville’s U of L engine 2013 leads LSX1, a loaded coal train, north at Caneyville, Ky. #jimstrainphotos

May 2, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville Railway at Big Clifty Trestle

May 2, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville Railroad’s LG Relief crew, LSX1 (weekend runs to Louisville Gas & Electric), heads north across the Big Clifty trestle with it’s loaded coal train with U of L 2013, UK 2012 and 4502 as power, just north of Clarkson, Ky as twilight begins to fall.

April 22, 2015 – CSX Q597

April 22, 2015 – CSX Q597 heads though Mortons Junction at Mortons Gap, Ky as it moves south on the Henderson Subdivision with engine 4817 in the lead.

April 22, 2015 – A CSX manifest freight

April 22, 2015 – CSX Q025 rounds the curve approaching the Hubert Reed Road Crossing at Earlington, Ky, with engine 49 in the lead, as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision.

April 22, 2015 – A CSX manifest freight

April 22, 2015 – A CSX manifest freight (probably J722) with engine 341 on point and a lash-up of other power including two lease units head north through Mortons Gap, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision.

April 21, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville’s UK engine 2012 and U of L engine 2013

April 21, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville’s UK engine 2012 and U of L engine 2013, both 70MACs, pull into West Yard at Madisonville, Ky with stormy skies looming overhead.

April 22, 2015 – A Paducah and Louisville military train

April 22, 2015 – A Paducah and Louisville military train approaches the signals at Pond River siding as it heads north from Madisonville, Ky.

2015 White Plains, Ky Civil War Festival

April 25, 2015 – Spent the afternoon shooting photos at this year’s White Plains, Ky Civil War Festival and these are a selection of my favorites from today’s shoot. The square photos were all shot with my iPhone 5s using the Hipstamatic App, with the Tinto 1884 Lens and D-Type film.

April 23, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville at Barkley Dam, Ky

April 23, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville engines 4522, 4503, 2107 and 2106 lead a empty coal train north across Barkley Dam at Kuttawa, Ky.

April 24, 2015 – CSX intermodal Q028 northbound at Mortons Gap, Ky

April 24, 2015 – CSX intermodal Q028 approaches the defect detector at Mortons Gap, Ky as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision.

April 22, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville’s 4516 at MP 131

April 22, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville’s 4516 leads a loaded LG coal train past MP 131, approaching the crossing at Hwy 181, as it heads north toward Central City, Ky and onto Louisville as the warm glow of the setting sun filters through the sky.

April 22, 2015 – Northbound P&L Coal train at Central City, Ky

April 22, 2015 – A northbound Paducah and Louisville Railroad loaded coal train, with engine 4516 in the lead, passes a local in the siding at South Central City, Ky as it heads toward Louisville, Ky.

April 22, 2015 – CSX T101 heads south at Madisonville, KY

April 22, 2015 – CSX loaded coal train T101 pulls up the grade out of Atkinson Yards as it heads south under the North Main Street overpass, on the Henderson Subdivision, at Madisonville, Ky. Long lens and a bit of heat dispersion gives the wavy look on the rails, but they’re not really that bad.

April 23, 2015 – P&L loaded coal at Kentucky Dam

April 23, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville’s 2125, 4511 and U of L 3801 head across the Tennessee River bridge at Kentucky Dam as it heads south at Kuttawa, Ky with a loaded coal train.

April 22, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville engine 2111 leads a military train

April 22, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville engine 2111 leads a military train past loaded coal train 4516 at Cimarron Mine, which followed it north toward Louisville at Madisonville, Ky.

April 22, 2015 – P&L 4516 at Central City, Ky

April 22, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville Railroad’s 70MAC 4516 leads a loaded coal train north at Central City, Ky.

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

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.

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

April 21, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville coal train, Madisonville, Ky

April 21, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville U of L engine 2013, UK engine 2012 and PAL 4522 pull a load of coal up CSX’s Henderson Subdivision cutoff to the East Diamond switch at Madisonville, Ky to interchange with the PAL mainline.