August 24th, 2024 – A eastbound Norfolk Southern Railway mixed freight makes its way across Decatur Lake, just outside Decatur, Illinois on the NS Lafyette District. From what I can find online the construction on the bridge was completed in 1907 by the Wabash railroad.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO 100.
September 1st, 2024, Steam locomotive Nickel Plate 765 leads the Victory Train as they pull into the station at Pleasant Lake, Indiana as they prepare to pull their passenger train to Angola, Indiana to pick up their first load of passengers during Indiana Rail Experience’s Rolling Victory Weekend.
According to their website: Rolling Victory was a three-day living history event celebrating American military, railroad, and home front history featuring vintage train rides, World War II reenactors, battles, a big band orchestra, and an immersive and educational experience for all ages in Pleasant Lake, Indiana.
Tech Info: Nikon D810, RAW, Nikon 24-70 @ 52mm, f/2.8, 1/1000, ISO 200.
August 30th, 2024, Steam locomotive Nickel Plate 765 leads “The Limited” as they arrive at Reading, Michigan with a late evening passenger train run as part of Indiana Rail Experience’s Rolling Victory Weekend.
According to their website: Rolling Victory was a three-day living history event celebrating American military, railroad, and home front history featuring vintage train rides, World War II reenactors, battles, a big band orchestra, and an immersive and educational experience for all ages in Pleasant Lake, Indiana.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/20, ISO 800.
August 30th, 2024, Steam locomotive Nickel Plate 765 leads “The Limited” as they allow their passengers off the train at Ray, Indiana for a photo runby during a late evening passenger train run to Reading, Michigan, as part of Indiana Rail Experience’s Rolling Victory Weekend.
According to their website: Rolling Victory was a three-day living history event celebrating American military, railroad, and home front history featuring vintage train rides, World War II reenactors, battles, a big band orchestra, and an immersive and educational experience for all ages in Pleasant Lake, Indiana.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 800.
August 30th, 2024, Steam locomotive Nickel Plate 765 pulls “The Limited” through the countryside during the golden light of sunset as they make their way to Reading, Michigan as part of Indiana Rail Experience’s Rolling Victory Weekend.
According to their website: Rolling Victory was a three-day living history event celebrating American military, railroad, and home front history featuring vintage train rides, World War II reenactors, battles, a big band orchestra, and an immersive and educational experience for all ages in Pleasant Lake, Indiana.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 800.
August 30th, 2024, Steam locomotive Nickel Plate 765 pulls “The Limited” through the countryside during the golden light of sunset as they make their way to Reading, Michigan as part of Indiana Rail Experience’s Rolling Victory Weekend.
According to their website: Rolling Victory was a three-day living history event celebrating American military, railroad, and home front history featuring vintage train rides, World War II reenactors, battles, a big band orchestra, and an immersive and educational experience for all ages in Pleasant Lake, Indiana.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 800.
August 30th, 2024, Steam locomotive Nickel Plate 765 pulls “The Limited” through the countryside during the golden light of sunset as they make their way to Reading, Michigan as part of Indiana Rail Experience’s Rolling Victory Weekend.
According to their website: Rolling Victory was a three-day living history event celebrating American military, railroad, and home front history featuring vintage train rides, World War II reenactors, battles, a big band orchestra, and an immersive and educational experience for all ages in Pleasant Lake, Indiana.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 800.
August 30th, 2024, Steam locomotive Nickel Plate 765 leads “The Limited” through the Indiana countryside, on a late evening passenger train run to Reading, Michigan, as part of Indiana Rail Experience’s Rolling Victory Weekend.
According to their website: Rolling Victory was a three-day living history event celebrating American military, railroad, and home front history featuring vintage train rides, World War II reenactors, battles, a big band orchestra, and an immersive and educational experience for all ages in Pleasant Lake, Indiana.
Tech Info: Nikon D810, RAW, Sigma 150-600 @ 420mm, f/6, 1/640, ISO 560.
August 30th, 2024, Steam locomotive Nickel Plate 765 leads “The Limited” through the Indiana countryside, on a late evening passenger train run to Reading, Michigan, as part of Indiana Rail Experience’s Rolling Victory Weekend.
According to their website: Rolling Victory was a three-day living history event celebrating American military, railroad, and home front history featuring vintage train rides, World War II reenactors, battles, a big band orchestra, and an immersive and educational experience for all ages in Pleasant Lake, Indiana.
Tech Info: Nikon D810, RAW, Sigma 150-600 @ 420mm, f/6, 1/640, ISO 560.
Norfolk Southern 4723 heads up a westbound freight as it sits in the yard at Frankfort, Indiana on August 30th, 2024, as the sun begins to rise in the east as it waits for a crew to take it west on the NS Frankfort Branch.
Tech Info: Nikon D810, RAW, Nikon 24-70 @ 70mm, f/5, 1/1600, ISO 64.
August 30th, 2024, Steam locomotive Nickel Plate 765 “The Limited” departs Pleasant lake, Indiana on a late evening passenger train run to Reading, Michigan, as part of Indiana Rail Experience’s Rolling Victory Weekend.
According to their website: Rolling Victory was a three-day living history event celebrating American military, railroad, and home front history featuring vintage train rides, World War II reenactors, battles, a big band orchestra, and an immersive and educational experience for all ages in Pleasant Lake, Indiana.
Tech Info: Nikon D810, RAW, Nikon 24-70 @ 24mm, f/2.8, 1/250, ISO 64.
August 30th, 2024, Steam locomotive Nickel Plate 765 leads “The Limited” as they allow their passengers off the train at Ray, Indiana for a photo runby during a late evening passenger train run to Reading, Michigan, as part of Indiana Rail Experience’s Rolling Victory Weekend.
According to their website: Rolling Victory was a three-day living history event celebrating American military, railroad, and home front history featuring vintage train rides, World War II reenactors, battles, a big band orchestra, and an immersive and educational experience for all ages in Pleasant Lake, Indiana.
Tech Info: Nikon D810, RAW, Nikon 24-70 @ 24mm, f/2.8, 1/800, ISO 720.
August 30th, 2024, Steam locomotive Nickel Plate 765 leads “The Limited” as they allow their passengers off the train at Ray, Indiana for a photo runby during a late evening passenger train run to Reading, Michigan, as part of Indiana Rail Experience’s Rolling Victory Weekend.
According to their website: Rolling Victory was a three-day living history event celebrating American military, railroad, and home front history featuring vintage train rides, World War II reenactors, battles, a big band orchestra, and an immersive and educational experience for all ages in Pleasant Lake, Indiana.
Tech Info: Nikon D810, RAW, Nikon 24-70 @ 24mm, f/2.8, 1/800, ISO 720.
August 30th, 2024, Crew members on Steam locomotive Nickel Plate 765 “The Limited” wait to depart the depot at Pleasant Lake, Indiana before doing a late evening passenger train run to Reading, Michigan as part of Indiana Rail Experience’s Rolling Victory Weekend.
According to their website: Rolling Victory was a three-day living history event celebrating American military, railroad, and home front history featuring vintage train rides, World War II reenactors, battles, a big band orchestra, and an immersive and educational experience for all ages in Pleasant Lake, Indiana.
Tech Info: Nikon D810, RAW, Nikon 24-70 @ 35mm, f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO 1000.
Norfolk Southern 1214 leads westbound Triple Crown train NS 251 as it passes the depot at Lafayette, Indiana, on the NS Lafayette District on August 30th, 2024. This train and its counterpart NS 252 have replaced the RoadRailer trains that used to run through here, which were abolished at the end of August 2024.
Tech Info: Nikon D810, RAW, Nikon 24-70 @ 24mm, f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO 64.
August 30th, 2024, Steam locomotive Nickel Plate 765 pulls “The Limited” through the countryside during the golden light of sunset as they on their way to Reading, Michigan as part of Indiana Rail Experience’s Rolling Victory Weekend,
According to their website: Rolling Victory was a three-day living history event celebrating American military, railroad, and home front history featuring vintage train rides, World War II reenactors, battles, a big band orchestra, and an immersive and educational experience for all ages in Pleasant Lake, Indiana.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 3200.
August 30th, 2024, Steam locomotive Nickel Plate 765 pulls “The Limited” through the countryside at sunset as they approach Ray, Indiana on their way to Reading, Michigan as part of Indiana Rail Experience’s Rolling Victory Weekend,
According to their website: Rolling Victory was a three-day living history event celebrating American military, railroad, and home front history featuring vintage train rides, World War II reenactors, battles, a big band orchestra, and an immersive and educational experience for all ages in Pleasant Lake, Indiana.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 24mm, f/11, 1/800, ISO 800.
Norfolk Southern 3619 and 9750 lead NS 148 mixed freight as it stretches across the southern Illinois landscape as it heads east outside of Sidney, Illinois under cloudy weather, on the NS Lafayette District on August 17th, 2024.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/3200, ISO 210.
CSX M513 heads south out of Casky Yard as it continues it’s run south from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, with CSX Heritage Unit L&N 1972 Family Lines System Leading, on August 16th, 2024, on the Henderson Subdivision.
According to CSXT: Our fleet of heritage locomotives is growing again as we unveil CSX Locomotive 1972, a tribute to the Family Lines System! The #ONECSX team in Waycross, GA recreated this unit to celebrate the special time from 1972-1982 when the Seaboard Coast Line, Clinchfield and L&N railroads were marketed as one. Eventually merging to become the Seaboard System Railroad, and ultimately the CSX we know today, the Family Lines System represents an integral part of our railroad’s rich history.
The CSX heritage series is reinforcing employee pride in the history of the railroad that continues to move the nation’s economy with safe, reliable, and sustainable rail-based transportation services.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO 130.
A Decatur & Eastern Illinois Railroad local with Wisconsin & Southern 3870 leading the way, works the yard at Decatur, Illinois, on August 24th, 2024.
According to Wikipedia: The Decatur & Eastern Illinois Railroad (reporting mark DREI) is an American regional railroad that is a subsidiary of Watco Companies operating in eastern Illinois and western Indiana.
In January 2018, CSX Transportation announced that it was seeking offers to buy the Decatur Subdivision and the Danville Secondary Subdivision as part of a system-wide sale of low-traffic routes, and in July, Watco, via the DREI, was identified as the winning bidder. Following regulatory approval from the Surface Transportation Board, The DREI began operations on September 9, 2018.
The DREI operates two intersecting routes totaling 126.7 miles (203.9 km)—the former Decatur Subdivision between Montezuma, Indiana and Decatur, Illinois, and the former Danville Subdivision between Terre Haute, Indiana and Olivet, Illinois. It interchanges traffic with CSX, the Eastern Illinois Railroad, the Norfolk Southern Railway, the Canadian National Railway, and the Union Pacific Railroad. The railroad is headquartered in Decatur, Illinois.
Tech Info: Nikon D810, RAW, Sigma 150-600 @ 440mm, f/6, 1/1250, ISO 80.
April 2nd, 2014 – Blast from The Past – Looking though my archives I stumbled across this image of Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern 6071 (City of Ft. Pierre) and 6030 leading a mixed freight hauling truck frames behind the power just south of Mortons Gap, Kentucky headed north on the CSX Henderson Subdivision. These frames are hauled by M512 today, so I’m guessing perhaps back then it would have been Q512.
According to eh Global Energy Monitor Wiki website: The Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad reporting mark is a Class II railroad subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway operating across South Dakota and southern Minnesota in the northern plains of the United States. Portions of the railroad also extend into Wyoming, Nebraska and Iowa.
DM&E began operations on September 5, 1986, over tracks that were spun off from the Chicago and Northwestern Transportation Company in South Dakota and Minnesota. Much of the negotiations were handled by the office of Senator Larry Pressler and his legal counsel Kevin V. Schieffer. After a successful decade of growth for DM&E, Schieffer succeeded J. C. McIntyre as president of the railroad on November 7, 1996. In 1997 DM&E announced plans to build into Wyoming’s Powder River Basin to become the third railroad (after BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad) to tap into the region’s rich coal deposits. The Surface Transportation Board (STB) released the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on November 19, 2001; with the final EIS in place and approval from the STB, the railroad has federal authority to construct the project.
DM&E purchased the assets of I&M Rail Link railroad in 2002, renaming it Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad and combining its management and dispatching duties with those of DM&E under the holding company Cedar American Rail Holdings. Schieffer served as president and CEO of Cedar as well as serving as president of DM&E. The combined system directly connects Chicago, Illinois through Iowa to Kansas City, Missouri, Minneapolis-St. Paul and continues as far west as Rapid City, South Dakota. Smaller branches extend into portions of Wisconsin, Wyoming and Nebraska.
In September 2007 it was announced that Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) would acquire the DM&E upon approval by the Surface Transportation Board of the US Department of Transportation. The STB announced its approval of the purchase plan on September 30, 2008, with the official last day of operations for DM&E scheduled for October 30, 2008. The merger is complete as of October 31, 2008
Tech Info: Nikon D100, Nikon 70-300mm @70mm, f/32, 1/400, ISO 800.