August 4, 2017 – A railfan trip with good friend Ryan Scott turned up this string of Hoosier Southern units tied to their caboose and some other cars at the end of their trackage at Tell City, Indiana. While we were off to night photography on this outing, I couldn’t pass up a nicely lit shot like this! The units are, 465, 467 and 464, which have been retired from service on their line after the purchase of some newer GP-15-1s.
August 4, 2017 – Squaw Creek 21 and Norfolk Southern 7320 sit idling in the stillness of the night at Alcoa/Yankeetown Docks yard. The NS loaded train waits for a crew to move its load of coal into the Alcoa Warrick Operations at Yankee Town Dock, just outside of Newburgh, Indiana. at
August 5, 2017 – Hoosier Southern 468, a GP15-1, sets next to the depot and flood wall in Tell City, Indiana after finishing its day of work along the line, under the glow of the night lights and moon.
August 4, 2017 – Norfolk Southern 7320 and Squaw Creek 21 sit idling in the stillness of the night at Squaw Creek the NS loaded train waits for a crew to move the loaded coal into the Alcoa Warrick Operations at Yankee Town Dock, just outside of Newburgh, Indiana.
June 17, 2017 – Union Pacific 5359 heads up a CSX MOW rail train, as it sits tied down in the siding at the south end of Alliance siding in Princeton, Indiana at dusk on the CE&D subdivision.
June 17, 2017 – Norfolk Southern 7226 pulls hard as it leads a manifest train up the grade at the east end of Huntingburg, Indiana on it’s way east on the NS Southern-East district.
May 16, 2017 – CSX Q645 pulls into the north end of CSX’s Howell Yard at Evansville, Indiana, past a waiting Q124 to go north on the CE&D Subdivision.
May 13, 2017 – A CSX empty coal train with CSXT 3187 leading, prepares to start loading it’s train at Alliance Coal in Princeton, Indiana.
May 16, 2017 – With the sun heading for the horizon to the west, Norfolk Southern’s “Lehigh Valley” Heritage Unit 8104 sits on the end of loaded coal train NS D436 at Red Brush Siding, on the Yankeetown Branch at Yankeetown, Indiana.
May 16, 2017 – As the last light of day fades from the sky CSX Q645 rounds the curve as it slowly makes it’s way toward the north end of Howell Yard in Evansville, Indiana where it picked up fresh supplies before heading on south on the Henderson Subdivision.
May 16, 2017 – Norfolk Southern’s “Lehigh Valley” Heritage Unit 8104 sits on the end of loaded coal train NS D436 as it waits for a crew, at Red Brush Siding, on the Yankeetown Branch at Yankeetown, Indiana.
May 16, 2017 – Norfolk Southern’s “Lehigh Valley” Heritage Unit 8104 sits as the DPU on loaded coal train NS D436, tied down in the Red Brush Siding, on the Yankeetown Branch at Yankeetown, Indiana.
May 13, 2017 – A eerie quiet fell in amongst all these steel horses as they sat at the north end of the Norfolk Southern yard at Princeton, Indiana as the last light of dusk fell on National Train Day. I drove from Piqua, Ohio to Princeton, Indiana on this day looking for trains to catch and I saw three moving along the way, all in the distance. That’s the way it goes sometimes! I did catch another shot I’ll post later of a CSX coal train in the loop at Alliance Coal.
May 12, 2017 – Norfolk Southern Heritage Unit 1071, “Jersey Central Lines,” brings up the tail end of 71T as it finishes up loading it’s coal train at Alliance Coal in Princeton, Indiana.
April 19, 2017 – Despite it being a hot muggy day, with way too many gnats buzzing around, we found a parade of north bounds making their way up CSX’s CE&D subdivision across the Patoka River box bridge at Patoka, Indiana. Here CSXT 573 heads up CSX Q648-17 (Waycross, GA – Chicago, IL) as it makes it’s way north on the CE&D Subdivision.
April 15, 2017 – It’s the late hours of the night as Savatrans (SVTX) 5 lights up the rails, as the train stains, during it’s pull up the Vectran lead with a load of coal for the Sitran Dock, at Abee, Indiana.
Aprils 19, 2017 – CSXT 5344 leads an autorack train south on the CE&D Subdivision at Haubstadt, Indiana.
April 19, 2017 – Despite it being a hot muggy day, with way too many gnats buzzing around, we found a parade of north bounds making their way up CSX’s CE&D subdivision across the Patoka River box bridge at Patoka, Indiana. Here CSXT 3247 heads up CSX Q592-18 (Nashville, TN Chicago, IL) as it was train number four in a line of the ones we caught. Traffic has been affected due to CSX MOW do major upgrades along the line with their current maintenance blitz which from what I’m told is scheduled to continue through next week. A big shout out to fellow railfan Ryan Scott for showing me this location!
April 14, 2017 – As the last light of day fades from the sky, Savatrans (SVTX 1912) 5 pulls away from the south end of Nations Siding, after picking up a Evansville Western Railway pusher, south of Mount Vernon, Indiana with a load of coal, for the Sitran Dock, at Abee, Indiana.
April 15, 2017 – Savatrans (SVTX) 5 heads up the Vectran lead in the late hours of the night with a load of coal, for the Sitran Dock, being pulled by SVTX 1912 and 1986 as power, at Abee, Indiana. The train also had SVTX 1982 as a mid-train helper and called in Evansville Western Railway to provide a pusher to get it’s heavy load up the Vectran lead. The Chris Cline Group are owners of the company “Savatrans” which purchased three ES44AC locomotives which operate from Sugar Camp Mine in Akin, IL to Abee, IN near the Mount Vernon/West Franklin area.
April 14, 2017 – In the still of night, aglow with light from streetlights and the occasional sound of air being release from the engines, Paducah and Louisville Railway power sits idling in the yard behind the corporate offices in Mount Vernon, Indiana.