August 24, 2019 - Indiana Railroad Museum's #4 (Ex Algers, Winslow and Western Railway #4, Built as Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic #103) heads through the crossing at Twin City Lumber Company as it pulls a passenger train south on the French Lick Scenic Railway from French Lick, Indiana. According to their website: The Indiana Railway Museum is a tourist railway located in French Lick, Indiana. The Museum was founded in 1961 in the town of Westport, Indiana where the railroad operated a tourist excursion, utilizing one small locomotive, three passenger cars, and about twenty volunteers. Ridership was estimated at about 500 passengers in 1962. The museum and railway remained in Westport until a move was necessitated in 1971. The organization relocated to Greensburg, Indiana where it operated until 1976 when it again, it changed locations. The Museum was relocated to French Lick in 1978 after an agreement with the Southern Railway Company. They deeded the Museum a total of sixteen miles of track stretching from West Baden, Indiana, approximately one mile north of French Lick, to a small village named Dubois, to the south. The Indiana Railway Museum currently operates as The French Lick Scenic Railway operating passenger trains over twenty-five miles of this track from French Lick to Jasper. Visit them at: http://rhpfrench18.wpengine.com/

Indiana Railroad Museum’s #4 (Ex Algers, Winslow and Western Railway #4)…

August 24, 2019 – Indiana Railroad Museum’s #4 (Ex Algers, Winslow and Western Railway #4, Built as Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic #103) heads through the crossing at Twin City Lumber Company as it pulls a passenger train south on the French Lick Scenic Railway from French Lick, Indiana.

According to their website: The Indiana Railway Museum is a tourist railway located in French Lick, Indiana. The Museum was founded in 1961 in the town of Westport, Indiana where the railroad operated a tourist excursion, utilizing one small locomotive, three passenger cars, and about twenty volunteers. Ridership was estimated at about 500 passengers in 1962.

The museum and railway remained in Westport until a move was necessitated in 1971. The organization relocated to Greensburg, Indiana where it operated until 1976 when it again, it changed locations. The Museum was relocated to French Lick in 1978 after an agreement with the Southern Railway Company.

They deeded the Museum a total of sixteen miles of track stretching from West Baden, Indiana, approximately one mile north of French Lick, to a small village named Dubois, to the south.

The Indiana Railway Museum currently operates as The French Lick Scenic Railway operating passenger trains over twenty-five miles of this track from French Lick to Jasper.

Visit them at: http://rhpfrench18.wpengine.com/

August 10, 2019 - Norfolk Southern empty autorack train 276 passes through the east end of Huntingburg, Indiana as it heads to Princeton, Indiana on the NS Southern-East District to drop off the empty cars for Toyota. Can't tell it from this shot, but the trailing unit is NS Unit 8101, Central of Georgia heritage unit.

Norfolk Southern empty autorack train 276…

August 10, 2019 – Norfolk Southern empty autorack train 276 passes through the east end of Huntingburg, Indiana as it heads to Princeton, Indiana on the NS Southern-East District to drop off the empty cars for Toyota. Can’t tell it from this shot, but the trailing unit is NS Unit 8101, Central of Georgia heritage unit. When shooting your pictures, don’t get hung up on what everyone else considers the “best light or the “correct side.” I always go for what view I feel make the best picture!

July 13, 2019 - Evansville Western 3836 heads up a local as it pulls away from a string of cars at the south end of CSX's Howell Yards as it does it's work in Evansville, Indiana.

Evansville Western 3836 heads up a local…

July 13, 2019 – Evansville Western 3836 heads up a local as it pulls away from a string of cars at the south end of CSX’s Howell Yards as it does it’s work in Evansville, Indiana.

July 13, 2019 - NS 9497 heads up loaded rock train D51 as it makes its way along the Duke Energy's Gibson Power Plant lead to deliver the rock to the plant at East Mt. Carmel, Indiana.

NS 9497 heads up loaded rock train D51…

July 13, 2019 – NS 9497 heads up loaded rock train D51 as it makes its way along the Duke Energy’s Gibson Power Plant lead to deliver the rock to the plant at East Mt. Carmel, Indiana.

WEB-07.13.19 NS 167 EB at East Douglas, Princeton, IN

Norfolk Southern 167 pulls out of the east end…

July 13, 2019 – Norfolk Southern 167 pulls out of the east end of the Princeton, Indiana yard at East Douglas, as it pulled up to County Road 350 where it waited for two westbounds to pass, before it continued east on the NS Southern East District.

WEB-07.13.19 NS 71T loaded coal at East Douglas, Princeton, IN

Norfolk Southern loaded coal train 71T…

July 13, 2019 – Norfolk Southern loaded coal train 71T snakes its way down the grade at East Douglas on the NS Southern-East District at Princeton, Indiana as it heads for Duke Energy at Mt. Carmel, Illinois.

WEB-07.13.19 NS 167 EB at Lyle Station, Princeton, IN

NS 167, led by NS 9412, passes Consolidated Grain and Barge Company…

July 13, 2019 – NS 167, led by NS 9412, passes Consolidated Grain and Barge Company at Lyles Station, MP 157, as it heads east on the NS Southern West District at Lyles Station, Indiana.

According to Wikipedia, Lyles or Lyles Station is an unincorporated community in Patoka Township, Gibson County, Indiana. The community dates from 1849, although its early settlers first arrived in the 1830s, and it was formally named Lyles Station in 1886 to honor Joshua Lyles, a free African American who migrated with his family from Tennessee to Indiana around 1837. Lyles Station is one of Indiana’s early black rural settlements and the only one remaining.

The rural settlement reached its peak in the years between 1880 and 1912, when major structures in the community included the railroad depot, a post office, a lumber mill, two general stores, two churches, and a school. By the turn of the twentieth century,

Lyles Station had fifty-five homes, with a population of more than 800 people. The farming community never fully recovered from the Great Flood of 1913, which destroyed much of the town. Most of its residents left for economic reasons, seeking opportunities for higher paying jobs and additional education in larger cities.

By 1997 approximately fifteen families remained at Lyles Station, nearly all of them descended from the original settlers.

WEB-07.13.19 CSX Q025-13 SB at Howell Yard, Eavansville, IN

CSXT 3294 leads Q025-13 as it heads…

July 13, 2019 – CSXT 3294 leads Q025-13 as it heads through the south end of CSX’s Howell Yard, on its way south along the Henderson Subdivision.

WEB-05.15.19 CSXT 33 at Belknap Siding, Evansville, IN

CSXT 33 heads up an empty coal train…

May 15, 2019 – CSXT 33 heads up an empty coal train as it passes a string a tank cars at Evansville Western’s Belknap Siding, after coming off the Vectren lead from the A.B.Brown Power Plant, outside of Evansville, Indiana. The A. B. Brown Generating Station is a four-unit, 700 megawatt power plant, located on the northern bank of Ohio River, 8 miles east of Mount Vernon, Indiana and 5 miles southwest of Evansville, Indiana just west of the Posey-Vanderburgh County Line and is serviced by CSX via the Evansville Western Railway.

WEB-05.18.19 CSX Q026-17 with CSXT 911 on Viaduct NB at Rham, IN

CSXT 911, the new CSX locomotive Honoring our 1st Responders…

May 18, 2019 – CSXT 911, the new CSX locomotive Honoring our 1st Responders, heads up intermodal Q026 with CSXT 5286 trailing as it makes its down the viaduct after crossing the Ohio River Bridge at Rahm, Indiana as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision.

WEB-05.15.19 SVTX coal train at SITRAN Dock, Mt. Vernon, IN

Savatrans SVTX 1982 and 1912…

May 15, 2019 – Savatrans SVTX 1982 and 1912 head up a recently unloaded coal train at the Sitran Dock at West Franklin, Indiana as the train waits for a relief crew to show up to take it for another load. The Chris Cline Group are owners of the company “Savatrans” which purchased three ES44AC locomotives that operate from Sugar Camp Mine in Akin, IL to West Franklin, IN near the Mount Vernon/West Franklin area. In the background putting out all the steam is the Abengoa Bioenergy plant.