January 28, 2016 – CSX empty tank train K442-27 sits in the the fading light of the day at the north end of Cedar Hill, Tennessee with Norfolk Southern’s Interstate Heritage Unit 8105 in the lead, waiting for a southbound before heading on north on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/160 | f/6 | ISO 4000 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 500mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 28, 2016 – CSX empty tank train K442-27 sits in the siding at the north end of Cedar Hill, Tennessee with Norfolk Southern’s Interstate Heritage Unit 8105 in the lead as they wait for a southbound before heading on north on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/250 | f/6.3 | ISO 1100 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 600mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 28, 2016 – CSX empty tank train K442-27 approaches the Experimental Station Road crossing in Springfield, Tennessee with Norfolk Southern’s Interstate Heritage Unit 8105 in the lead as they head north on the Henderson Subdivision. Last word was the train was tied down at Casky Yard in Hopkinsville, Ky for the night so those to the north might catch it in daylight tomorrow! – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/5.6 | ISO 500 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 500mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 12, 2015 – The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 4501 returns to the station at the museum after turning on the wye at Citco Junction on Norfolk Southern’s mainline, during it’s return trip from Cleveland on the Norfolk Southern Mainline at Chattanooga, Tennessee with a loaded passenger train during 2015 Railfest.
4501 was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1911 for the Southern Railway, the 4501 was the first of its class on that railroad. The wheel arrangement is a 2-8-2, known as a Mikado since the first of this type were sold to Japan. 4501 served the Southern until the 1940s when the railroad began buying diesel locomotives and phasing out steam operations. It then then saw service on a small coal-hauling railroad in Kentucky. Since the mid-1960s, 4501 has pulled countless passenger excursion trains across the Southern (later Norfolk Southern) Railway. The 4501 ended its service in 1999 due to rising maintenance costs. However, with the start of Norfolk Southerns 21st Century Steam program, the 4501 returned to service this year.
Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/7, ISO 250, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 12, 2015 – The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 4501 heads west on the Norfolk Southern Mainline at Pine Hill Road, McDonald, Tennessee during it’s return trip to Chattanooga with a loaded passenger train from Cleveland, during the Museum’s 2015 Railfest.
4501 was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1911 for the Southern Railway, the 4501 was the first of its class on that railroad. The wheel arrangement is a 2-8-2, known as a Mikado since the first of this type were sold to Japan. 4501 served the Southern until the 1940s when the railroad began buying diesel locomotives and phasing out steam operations. It then then saw service on a small coal-hauling railroad in Kentucky. Since the mid-1960s, 4501 has pulled countless passenger excursion trains across the Southern (later Norfolk Southern) Railway. The 4501 ended its service in 1999 due to rising maintenance costs. However, with the start of Norfolk Southerns 21st Century Steam program, the 4501 returned to service this year.
Tech Info: 1/1000sec, f/7, ISO 450, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 70mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 13, 2015 – Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 4501, a Baldwin 2-8-2 built in 1911, sits in the station at Chattanooga, Tennessee as a Norfolk Southern Geometry Train heads west in the NS mainline, during the TVRM’s 2015 Railfest. Tech Info all photos: 1/1250sec, f/10, ISO 280, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 31mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 13, 2015 – The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 4501, a Baldwin 2-8-2 built in 1911, backs into the station at Chattanooga, Tennessee past Southern diesel unit 2594, A GP30 built in 1963, after returning with a loaded passenger train from Cleveland, Tennessee during the TVRM’s 2015 Railfest. Tech Info all photos: 1/1250sec, f/10, ISO 500, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 13, 2015 – Norfolk Southern Heritage unit 1069, The Virginian. rolls past NS 6920, the Honoring Our Veterans unit, as it rolls east on a manifest train at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum at Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Veterans unit just returned with a loaded passenger train from Cleveland, Tennessee during the Museum’s 2015 Railfest. It was a rare stand-in for Southern 4501 that had fire box issues with it’s last run. – Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/7, ISO 320, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 70mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 12, 2015 – The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 4501 heads into the wye at Citico Junction on the Norfolk Southern Mainline at Chattanooga, Tennessee after returning with a loaded passenger train from Cleveland, Tennessee during the Museum’s 2015 Railfest. The train was turned in the they wye and then headed back to the TVRM station.
4501 was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1911 for the Southern Railway, the 4501 was the first of its class on that railroad. The wheel arrangement is a 2-8-2, known as a Mikado since the first of this type were sold to Japan. 4501 served the Southern until the 1940s when the railroad began buying diesel locomotives and phasing out steam operations. It then then saw service on a small coal-hauling railroad in Kentucky. Since the mid-1960s, 4501 has pulled countless passenger excursion trains across the Southern (later Norfolk Southern) Railway. The 4501 ended its service in 1999 due to rising maintenance costs. However, with the start of Norfolk Southern’s “21st Century Steam” program, the 4501 returned to service this year.
Tech Info all photos: 1/1000sec, f/5.6, ISO 720, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 13, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s Heritage Veteran’s Unit 6920 pulls a passenger train on the NS Mainline at Chattanooga, Tennessee as it returns from a round trip to Cleveland, Tennessee, approaching the Jersey Pike Crossing, during the Tennessee Valley Railway Museum’s 2015 Railfest. 6920 was pressed into service when they had a issue with the firebox on Southern 4501, reportedly due to bad coal. – Tech Info all photos: 1/1250sec, f/7, ISO 400, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 13, 2015 – The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 4501 heads from the museum onto the Norfolk Southern Mainline at Chattanooga, Tennessee with a loaded passenger train bound for a round trip to Cleveland, Tennessee during the Museum’s 2015 Railfest.
4501 was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1911 for the Southern Railway, the 4501 was the first of its class on that railroad. The wheel arrangement is a 2-8-2, known as a Mikado since the first of this type were sold to Japan. 4501 served the Southern until the 1940s when the railroad began buying diesel locomotives and phasing out steam operations. It then then saw service on a small coal-hauling railroad in Kentucky. Since the mid-1960s, 4501 has pulled countless passenger excursion trains across the Southern (later Norfolk Southern) Railway. The 4501 ended its service in 1999 due to rising maintenance costs. However, with the start of Norfolk Southern’s “21st Century Steam” program, the 4501 returned to service this year.
Tech Info all photos: 1/1250sec, f/10, ISO 900, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. ?#?jimstrainphotos?
September 6, 2015 – A Paducah & Louisville Railway local was headed up by U of L locomotive 2013 and had GMTX lease unit 3305, which is leased to Louis Dreyfus Commodities, as part of it’s consist at West Yard in Madisonville, Ky. The train was on it’s way to do interchange work at CSX’s Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, Ky
August 28, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s Heritage unit 1069, The Virginian, passes through Horse Branch, Ky on the Paducah & Louisville Railway as it heads north with a loaded coal train. Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/13, ISO 2000, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 70mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
August 28, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s Heritage unit 1069, The Virginian, round a curve at McHenry, ky as it heads north on the Paducah & Louisville Railway with a loaded coal train. Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/13, ISO 2800, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
August 28, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s Heritage unit 1069, The Virginian, passes an old trackside building at Rosine, Ky on the Paducah & Louisville Railway as it heads north with a loaded coal train. Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/13, ISO 560, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 31mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
August 28, 2015 – A glint of sunlight reflects off Norfolk Southern’s Heritage unit 1069, The Virginian, as it heads north just outside Rockport, Ky on the Paducah & Louisville Railway with it’s loaded coal train. Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/13, ISO 4000, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
August 28, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s Heritage unit 1069, The Virginian, blows through the crossing at Coon Hollow Road, outside Caneyville, Ky on the Paducah & Louisville Railway as it heads north with a loaded coal train. Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/13, ISO 1000, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 70mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
August 28, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s Heritage unit 1069, The Virginian, blows through the crossing at Coon Hollow Road, outside Caneyville, Ky on the Paducah & Louisville Railway as it heads north with a loaded coal train. Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/13, ISO 1000, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 70mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
August 28, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s Heritage unit 1069, The Virginian, approaches the south end of the siding at Caneyvilly, Ky on the Paducah & Louisville Railway as it heads north with a loaded coal train. Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/13, ISO 1400, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
August 28, 2015 – I owe Adam Wells and Bill Grady a big shout out for the heads up with today’s picture of Norfolk Southern’s Heritage unit 1069, The Virginian as it heads north across the trestle at Big Clifty, Ky. I almost didn’t give case because as many of you know I broke my left elbow, Monday and had surgery to repair it on Wednesday! I must say it’s amazing how much i find that I use my left, almost as much as my right. I did have to adapt my shooting style as my D800 with the battery grip is Heavy! However I persevered and good several nice shots between Central City and Big Clifty, Ky which I’ll post over the next few days. – Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/13, ISO 800, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
July 11, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s 75w, with Heritage Unit 1071, Jersey Central Lines in the lead and NS 6691 trailing, moves along the siding at Taswell, Indiana as light fades from the sky on the NS Southern-East district with it’s empty coal train to wait for a eastbound freight. – Tech Info: 1/500sec, f/2.8, ISO 4000, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 32mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
July 11, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s 75w, with Heritage Unit 1071, Jersey Central Lines in the lead heads west at Marengo, Indiana on the Southern-East district with it’s empty coal train. – Tech Info: 1/640sec, f/3.2, ISO 2500, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.