April 4, 2018 – Evansville Western Railway local MVL01 works the industrial area as it backs across the Mt Vernon Interlocking at Mount Vernon, Indiana. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #evwr #evwrrailway #evansvillewesternrailway
April 6, 2018 – With permission I was able to get this shot of Respondek Railroad Corporation’s 415 and 2425 sitting in the old engine service facility at CSX’s Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision. Last word I got was that these two units were going to be servicing industry in the Henderson, Ky area. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad
April 4, 2018 – Evansville Western Railway local MVL01 backs past the CountryMark Co-Op LLP Refinery at Mount Vernon, Indiana as it makes a drop off of some tank cars.
The refinery was built in Mount Vernon in 1940, shortly after a local gusher well was discovered nearby. The farmer owners who built the 2,000 barrel-per-day refinery had a vision of energy security and independence, and a commitment to manufacture high quality fuels.
The refinery processes 30,000 barrels of local crude oil per day, operating 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. It brings to the market 450 million gallons of finished fuel products per year. It is a supplier of market-leading energy products and services for farms, fleets and families in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #evwr #evwrrailway #evansvillewesternrailway
April 4, 2018 – CSXT 2785 with an American Flag waving on it’s hood, heads up local Y102-04 after passing ADMX 57, an EMD-built SW1200, originally Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) 9621, at the ADM facility as it makes it’s way south to Howell Yard in Evansville, Indiana with Chessie System Caboose 904138. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad
April 4. 2018 – A Evansville Western Railway empty coal train sits at the SITRAN Coal transfer facility, in the golden glow of the setting sun. In the background putting out all the steam is the Green Plains Bioenergy plant at West Franklin, Indiana. The Sitran Terminal was commissioned in April 2012 and is owned by Foresight Energy. It is capable of receiving up to 150 car trains from mines originating on the EVWR, NS, CSX and BN Railroads via the Evansville Western Railroad. The facility can store 1 million tons of coal. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #evwr #evwrrailway #coaltrain
April 4, 2018 – Evansville Western Railway MVT01 pulls out onto the main as the last light of the setting sun reflects on the train and rails, after the crew finished their pickup at the Port of Indiana at Mount Vernon, Indiana.
Contiguous to the Ohio River, Ports of IndianaMt. Vernon is the 7th largest inland port in the United States and serves as a major multi-modal hub for the region handling over 4 million trip tons of cargo a year. It is one of the major transportation engines for not only Posey County but the State of Indiana. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #evwr #evansvillewesternrailway
March 15, 2018 – A empty westbound Norfolk Southern coal train passes through Hatfield Junction outside of Oakland City, Indiana with Union Pacific 8997 bringing up the rear as the last DPU on the NS Southern-East District. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #ns #nsrailway #unionpacific #uprailway
March 15, 2018 – Norfolk Southern Heritage Unit 8114 is leads empty autorack 239, with NS 9122 trailing, at Birdseye, Indiana as it heads west to Kansas City, MO. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #ns #nsheritageunit #nsrailway #heritageunit
March 15, 2018 – Norfolk Southern Heritage Unit 8114 is reflected in the water as it leads empty autorack 239 west, as it approaches the last crossing before the NS yard at Huntingburg, Indiana on it’s way west to Kansas City, MO. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #ns #nsheritageunit #nsrailway #heritageunit
March 10, 2018 – Consolidated Grain and Barge, just west of County Road 475, at Princeton, Indiana, uses this torpedo boat Geep at their elevator. From what I find from fellow railfan William Crupper, FLSX is Great Miami, Inc., and the locomotive is ex-CERA/CIND 1751, exx-MKT 120, nee-MKT 1761.
March 10, 2018 – Norfolk Southern Railway’s NS 168 moves by West Douglas as it works on doing a pick-up at the Yard in Princeton, Indiana before proceeding on east with a short 1,500 foot train, with NS 8156 and BNSF Warbonnet, 737 as power.
March 10, 2018 – Norfolk Southern 8156 and BNSF Warbonnet 737 lead NS 168 West across the swollen Wabash River at Mount Carmel, Illinois with a short, 1,500ft train.
March 10, 2018 – Day 131 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B&W Photo Challenge – Industrial Landscape – I spent most of today railfanning (taking pictures of trains) in southern Indiana and Illinois. This scene is of the Norfolk Southern railway yards from an overpass in Princeton, Indiana. Good leading lines can help draw your viewer into your picture!
February 7, 2018 – Norfolk Southern 8100, the Nickel Plate unit, pulls a empty coal train around the loop at Alliance Coal past a loaded CSX train at Princeton, Indiana in preparation to pickup a load of coal.
February 7, 2018 – Norfolk Southern 8100, the Nickel Plate unit, pulls an empty coal train east past Lyle Siding in Princeton, Indiana as it heads for Alliance Coal to pickup a load of coal.
February 7, 2018 – Norfolk Southern 8100, the Nickel Plate unit, pulls a empty coal train around the loop at Alliance Coal past a loaded CSX train at Princeton, Indiana in preparation to pickup a load of coal.
February 7, 2018 – Norfolk Southern 8100, the Nickel Plate unit, pulls an empty coal train east at the MP 157 defect detector at Wright, just past Consolidated Grain & Barge at Princeton, Indiana as it heads for Alliance Coal to pickup a load of coal.
October 1, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s 9571 heads up the American Association of Private Railway Car Owners passenger train special with AMTRAK engines 156 and 154, as it heads west through Hatfield Junction just east of Oakland City, Indiana. The train left Louisville on the former Southern Railway’s St. Louis line and crossed the Ohio River, traveling through scenic southern Indiana and Illinois arriving at their convention destination in St. Louis, Missouri. – Tech Info: 1/400sec | f/5 | ISO 320 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 32mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
February 2, 2018 – Squaw Creek Southern 21 backs cars into the small yard at Yankeetown, Indiana. The Squaw Creek Southern Railroad is a subsidiary of the Respondek Railroad Corporation. The name comes from an Indiana coal hauling line that Respondek purchased. The Squaw Creek Railroad was a Peabody Coal operation in southern Indiana which pretty much solely existed to move coal from Lynnville and Squaw Creek Mines to a power plant on the Ohio River.
January 17, 2018 – Norfolk Southern switcher 2425 sits idling at Yankeetown Dock at Yankeetown, Indiana on a cold winter day. NS 2425 was bought at auction by Respondek’s Squaw Creek Southern over a year ago, who still hasn’t repainted it for their operations.
January 17, 2018 – It’s a cold winter day as Indiana Southern Railroad’s 3371 and 3388 makes the turn heading back out of the coal loop at Peabody’s Somerville Central Mine in Somerville, Indiana. The train was about halfway loaded when the mine developed a problem with its belt-line and the train had to slow from a craw to a dead stop while it was repaired.