November 24, 2017 – Westbound Norfolk Southern 375 stops briefly on the main at Georgetown, IN so the units that helped push it up the grade from Louisville, Ky to be dropped off from the rear of its train, giving me just long enough to get off one exposure before it started moving again!
November 25, 2017 – Indiana Southern Railroad 3384 and 3386 pull off the Indiana Southern onto the Indiana Railroad at Elnora, Indiana as they move a high and wide transformer load. The transformer was moving to Worthington, Indiana where it will be off loading for the co-op between Worthington and Switz City, In.ndiana Soutern High and Wide Movement, Elnora, IN
November 23, 2017 – I spent the day railfanning Indiana with fellow photographer Ryan Scott today. Part of the trip was from Seymour to to Jeffersonville, Indiana on the Louisville and Indiana Railroad. We didn’t catch anything moving on this day after Thanksgiving running, but arrived at the engine facility just after sunset and found this great glow on the power sitting there! Rather made up for the lack of movement in my opinion!
We actually had a good day also catching short line action on the Indiana Southern with a high and wide movement which you’ll see in the next few days. In addition we caught the Norfolk Southern’s “Bar” unit! I’ll leave the details on these and other units to a later post!
November 4, 2017 – Norfolk Southern 3615 shoves a loaded coal train back into the Alcoa Plant at Yankeetown, Indiana as the last rays of light spill into the sky behind it.
October 26, 2017 – With long hood forward, Norfolk Southern Railroad 8772 heads up a rail train as it sits on the Norfolk Southern/Indiana Southern diamond at Oakland City, Indiana. The engineer was waiting for the crew on the back of the train to cut a piece of rail, before moving ahead to the east to drop more rail.
November 4, 2017 – CSX Q648 (Waycross, GA – Chicago, IL) heads down the viaduct at Rham, Indiana as it heads north to Chicago, Illinois on the Henderson Subdivision.
November 4, 2017 – CSX Q647 (Chicago, IL (BRC) – Waycross, GA) heads up the viaduct approach to the CSX bridge over the Ohio River at Henderson, Ky as it makes it’s way south on the Henderson Subdivision from Rahm, Indiana.
October 4, 2017 – CSX Q586 (Nashville, TN – Evansville, IN) heads over the Ohio River Bridge at Henderson, Ky as it heads north to Evansville, Indiana on the Henderson Subdivision with CSXT 598 leading.
October 26, 2017 – A crew on Road and Rail Service’s 3109 switch a set of empty autoracks at the Toyota Plant in Princeton, Indiana.
October 26, 2017 – The Conductor on Squaw Creek Southern 21 walks along side his train as they drop off some cars 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.Sqaw Creek 21 at Yankee Town, IN
October 26, 2017 – Norfolk Southern Railroad’s 8772, with long nose forward, heads up a waiting rail train, as Maintenance of Way crews tear out a crossing at the NS/IS diamond at Oakland City, Indiana. Norfolk Southern MOW crews worked several days to replace the diamond and several crossings surrounding around it.
October 26, 2017 – A empty Norfolk Southern Coal train makes its way through the fall countryside, outside Booneville, Indiana, after dropping a load of coal at the Alcoa plant, just outside of Yankeetown, IN.NS 8154 Headed for Booneville, IN
October 26, 2017 – After hearing from a fellow railfan, William Crupper (thanks!!), that Norfolk Southern’s Interstate (8105) and Lehigh Valley (8104) Heritage units were on coal trains delivering coal to Alcoa in Newburgh Indiana, I made my way that way. By the time I arrived they had finished their work and while both coal trains were gone the heritage units were left tied down at the small yard at Alcoa, which I made for a great shot!
September 20, 2017 – CSX N855-15 and Q513 sit at the north end of Hybird at Evansville, Indiana, as they both wait for a signal to depart from Howell Yard and head south on the Henderson Subdivision. N855 is headed up by CSXT 2498, an ex-Conrail unit still with Conrail class lights.
September 20, 2017 – CSX Q513 (Avon, IN – Waycross, GA) departs Howell Yard with UP units 7191, 9608 and lease unit KLWX 5749 trailing, that is a ex-CP unit, as they head south on the Henderson Subdivision with northbound Q648 (Waycross, GA – Chicago, IL) waiting in the distance to enter the yard.
August 16, 2017 – Indiana Railroad 9010 and 9013 heads toward Hoosier Energy’s Merom Generating Station outside Sullivan, Indiana to deliver about 100 loaded gondola coal cars.Indiana Railroad 9010 and 9013 heads toward Hoosier Energy’s Merom Generating Station
August 16, 2017 – Indiana Railroad 9010 and 9013 pass Davidson Electric & Machine Works as it heads through Sullivan, Indiana, to deliver about 100 loaded gondola coal cars to Hoosier Energy’s Merom Generating Station outside Sullivan.
August 16, 2017 – Dusk falls as Union Pacific 4061 leads CSX Q645 (Chicago, IL-Waycross, GA), south underneath the old C&EI coaling tower that was built in 1941 to service steam locomotives, as it headed south on CSX’s CE&D Subdivision at Sullivan, Indiana! Of the three CSX trains I caught under this tower today and the only one of the trains that ran with CSX power and it was trailing.
August 16, 2017 – Indiana Railroad (INRD) 9013 leads a loaded train off CSX’s CE&D Subdivision onto the INRD at the Sullivan Interlocking in Sullivan, Indiana. The coal is bound for the Hoosier Energy Merom Generating Station just outside Sullivan.
August 16, 2017 – As dusk begins to fall, BNSF 4477 and NS 8554 lead intermodal train CSX Q101-15 (Chicago, IL-Savannah, GA), south underneath the old C&EI coaling tower, which was built in 1941 to service steam locomotives, as it headed south on CSX’s CE&D Subdivision at Sullivan, Indiana! Of the three CSX trains I caught under this tower today and only one of the trains had any CSX power and it was trailing. Thought it was a bit unusual!
August 16, 2017 – BNSF 7608 and 7643 were a great surprise when I found them leading CSX Q028-16 as it popped out underneath the old coaling tower as it headed north on CSX’s CE&D Subdivision at Sullivan, Indiana!
Good friend and fellow railfan Ryan Scott and I headed up to this spot late in the afternoon hoping to catch some traffic under this tower that was built in 1941 to service steam locomotives with coal during their runs. Another friend, Ryan Collins had posted a picture from here earlier in the week and I knew I wanted to catch a few photos from here so I made the two hour trip north and picked up Ryan along the way.
When we got there we were listening to the scanner and became concerned that we wouldn’t get much before it got dark because Q645 had broken a knuckle and went into emergency a bit further to the north and they didn’t have one on their engine. Plus Q101 was behind them and we knew 28 was heading toward them.
Both the southbounds were in a siding and Q028 had a knuckle on their train so they pulled on up to where the conductor on 645 was waiting and dropped off the knuckle. Of course they had to replace the knuckle and make sure all the cars on their 10,000+ foot train were still upright before 28 could continue past them.
I thought sure we weren’t going to catch any southbounds before we lost all of our light at the coaling tower, but we were fortunate that the railfan God shined upon us and we caught both of them before it got too dark! I’ll post the other two photos over the next few days!
We also were fortunate enough to catch some Indiana Railroad action while we were waiting as well! Those will be coming over the next few days as well! A totally great afternoon/evening trackside!!!