In this week’s Saturday Infrared Photo, we catch CSX intermodal I128 just after cresting the hill at Mortons Junction as it heads north on January 17th, 2024, on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 70-300 @ 75mm, f/5.6, 1/320, ISO 400.
This week we catch trains between Breton and Mortons Gap Kentucky featuring CSX I025, M512, I128, B426, I026 and E319. Enjoy and please like, share, and subscribe, and thanks for watching!
Empty coal train E319, Cross, SC Evansville, IN (EVWR) to Sugar Creek Mine, heads north at East Diamond on January 15th, 2024, on the Henderson Subdivision. The track to the left is the connector between CSX and the Paducah and Louisville Railway. It’s called East Diamond because it used to be the connector also to the East Diamond Coal loadout, when doesn’t exist any longer.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/4000, ISO 150.
CSXT 3031 and 3008 lead CSX I128 lead their loaded intermodal north across Gum Lick Trestle, just outside of Kelly, Kentucky, as they make their way north through the frigid countryside, on January 16th, 2024, on the Henderson Subdivision.
Gum Lick trestle is located between Kelly and Crofton, Ky and not only the longest trestle on the subdivision but also the highest on the old Louisville and Nashville Railway line, now known as the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/400, ISO 110.
A CSX Maintenance of Way Brush Cutter works on cleaning up the right-of-way on the Henderson Subdivision just past the highway 41 overpass at Barnsley, Ky, on January 11th, 2024.
Tech Info: Nikon D810, RAW, Sigma 150-600 @ 390mm, f/6, 1/1000, ISO 125.
CSXT 721 leads hot intermodal I025 south on a freezing cold day as it approaches the north end of the siding at Kelly, Kentucky kicking up a cloud of snow along the way, on January 15th, 2024, on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Nikon D810, RAW, Sigma 150-600 @ 500mm, f/6, 1/800, ISO 500.
Paducah and Louisville 35th Anniversary units lead the afternoon local as the back into the south end of CSX’s Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, Kentucky on January 5th, 2024, to conduct interchange work.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1640, ISO 100.
CSX L364-01 drops off three flats loaded with steel at Wabash Steel Company on the Wabash River, along the CSX River Branch on January 1st, 2024.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/240, ISO 110.
This Saturday we catch trains between Hopkinsville and Madisonville, Kentucky on the CSX Henderson Subdivision, including CSXT 1973, the Chessie Heritage Unit. Enjoy and please like, share, and subscribe, and thanks for watching!
Paducah and Louisville 2101 leads the daily local as they work on dropping off a string of 9 old locomotives at CSX’s Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, Kentucky on October 8th, 2023, on the Henderson Subdivision. All the units went south a few days later via CSX. Not sure where they were delivered to. Unfortunately, I never got a good shot where I could identify all the locomotives.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1250, ISO 150.
On this first Saturday of the New Year I spent New Years Day chasing trains between Vincennes and Princeton, Indiana. This year I’m shooting in the 1:22.5 letterbox format for a change. Enjoy and please like, share, and subscribe, and thanks for watching!
CSX I025 heads south at Madisonville, Kentucky on the CSX Henderson Subdivision on January 4th, 2024, as they pass the demolition of The Messenger Newspaper building in downtown Madisonville.
I spent a lot of good years from 1996-2013 working in this building as a photojournalist and their IT guy! Covered many, many interesting assignments over the years and to the right corner of the building there was a set of stairs with a landing where I would stand to watch and photograph passing trains. It got to where if I was working and someone in the newsroom heard a train coming, they’d call out to me “Train Jim!” LOL I thought it was fitting I get my last shot of the building with a train passing it.
The building is making way for a new Dunkin Donuts! The offices for the paper are now located in a strip mall about a mile away, and while it still serves our community, it’s a shell of what it was during the time I was there. A sad state of many papers not only across the USA, but the world.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 100.
CSXT 776 leads loaded coal train C895, (Gibson county coal (Princeton, IN) – Newport News, VA (for export), north after passing under the steam era coaling temple at Sullivan, Indiana on December 18th, 2023, in the early morning light on the CSX CE&D Subdivision.
Tech Info: Nikon D810, RAW, Sigma 150-600 @ 480mm, f/6, 1/500, ISO 280.
CSXT 790 and 335 lead CSX M513 as it meets the CSX 1973 Chessie Heritage Unit in the siding at the north end of Kelly, Kentucky, as it leads CSX B211, a loaded potash train, on December 22, 2023, on the Henderson Subdivision.
The Chessie Heritage unit was leading an interesting lash up of one other CSX unit and 3 Norfolk Southern Units. If you check out my Saturday Edited video from this morning (episode 52) you’ll find a couple video clips of this train making its way north.
According to Wikipedia: The three railroads that would make up the Chessie System had been closely related since the 1960s. C&O had acquired controlling interest in B&O in 1962, and the two had jointly controlled WM since 1967.
Chessie System, Inc. was a holding company that owned the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O), the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), the Western Maryland Railway (WM), and Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad (B&OCT). Trains operated under the Chessie name from 1973 to 1987.
On November 1, 1980, Chessie System merged with Seaboard Coastline Industries to form CSX Corporation. Initially, the three Chessie System railroads continued to operate separately, even after Seaboard’s six Family Lines System railroads were merged into the Seaboard System Railroad on December 29, 1982. That began to change in 1983, when the WM was merged into the B&O. The Chessie image continued to be applied to new and re-painted equipment until July 1, 1986, when CSXT introduced its own paint scheme. In April 1987, the B&O was merged into the C&O. In August 1987, C&O merged into CSX Transportation, a 1986 renaming of the Seaboard System Railroad, and the Chessie System name was retired.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO 110.
Digital Photo Art – CSX Conrail Heritage Unit, CSXT 1976 leads M512 as it pulls north at Kelly, Kentucky on November 9th, 2023, on the CSX Henderson Subdivision on an overcast fall evening.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 210.
Some days everything just comes together with light, skies, clouds, shadows, leading lines, and dramatic warm light! This day was on December 18th, 2023, as I was on the last leg of my trip to chase Pere Marquette 1225, where I captured this shot of CSX I028’s mid-train DPU as they headed down the viaduct into Howell Yard at Evansville, Indiana on the CSX Henderson Subdivision. The only thing that would have made it better is if it was a train coming out of Evansville, but I’ll take it!!
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/240, ISO 130.
CSXT 5274 leads M501 (Barr Yard – Chicago, IL to Radnor Yard – Nashville, TN) heads south on the Earlington Cutoff, that runs around downtown Earlington and Madisonville, KY on a cold winters evening, as it heads for Nashville, TN on the Henderson Subdivision, December 27th, 2022.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/640, ISO 120.
CSXT 3161 heads up CSX I028 as it spits the signals at the south end of the siding at Latham as it makes its way north through the freshly fallen snow at Hopkinsville, Kentucky on the Henderson Subdivision in the 5-degree weather from December 23rd, 2022.
Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Sigma 150-600 @ 310mm, f/5.6, 1/500, ISO 110.
CSX I026 rolls down the viaduct at Rahm, Indiana on the CSX Henderson Subdivision at sunset, December 18th, 2023, on its way north to Evansville, Indiana for a crew change, before heading north to Bedford Park, IL.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/3200, ISO 170.
CSX 6900 L285, GP 40-2, ex Chessie C&O 4392, with the faint outline of the Chessie Cat logo on the front of the nose, makes its way back toward Madisonville, Ky on the MH&E Branch, as it approaches the Paducah and Louisville Railway at Central City, Ky. This unit has been also known as “Blank face” and “No logo nose” On December 6th, 2023.
From what I found online: for context, Chessie System was the combination of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, and the Western Maryland Railway. The Hagerstown yard was once part of the WM, home to a major classification yard and locomotive repair facility. The name came from C&O, who took majority control over the B&O and WM. CSX dates to 1980 as a joint venture between Chessie and Seaboard System before formally merging in 1986.
6900 was indeed part of the former Chessie System (for the C&O specifically) and wore the same logo on her nose when she was built in 1980. However, this is not her old colors showing through. After some repair work in 2018/2019, 6900 lost her CSX decal, leaving a blank nose. In 2020, a crew in Ohio took it upon themselves to apply the Chessie logo as a nod to her heritage, however it was removed shortly after, leaving this faded “ghostly” image.
CSX L285 is on a return trip from making a pickup at HARSCO, BLACK BEAUTY Abrasives (Reed Minerals) at Drakesboro, Ky on the CSX MH&E Branch. CSX uses a short portion of this branch to service the plant, with it being its only customer on it. At Central City they switch onto the Paducah and Louisville Railway and return on the PAL to Madisonville, Ky.
Tech Info: Nikon D810, RAW, Sigma 150-600 @ 460mm, f/6, 1/800, ISO 320.
CSXT 1776 Spirit of Our Armed Forces locomotive leads CSX I025 on Veteran’s Day, November 11th, 2023, as it made its way south at Nortonville, Ky, on the CSX Henderson Subdivision.
According to a press release from CSXT, ES44AH locomotive No. 1776, dubbed “The Spirit of Our Armed Forces,” was unveiled 0n April 30, 2019, at the railroad’s Huntington Heavy Repair shops in West Virginia.
No. 1776, renumbered from No. 3112, wears a combination standard CSX scheme on its cab and a highly detailed digital camouflage paint scheme on its long hood which adorns CSX’s new “Pride in Service” logo. The seals of the five-armed services branches are spread across the rear of the engine’s radiators, and logos for several support organizations for veterans and veterans’ families also appear on the locomotive. A screen-printed American flag covers the side cab windows.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO 110.