This week’s Saturday Infrared photo is of CSXT 5486 leading the daily local L391 that runs between Caskey Yard in Hopkinsville, Ky and Atkison Yard in Madisonville, Ky as it heads north out of Mortons Gap, Ky on May 31st, 2024, on the CSX Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24mm @15mm, f/5.6, 1/600, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared photo, we catch CSXT 3379 leading CSX I025 southbound at Casky, Hopkinsville, Kentucky on May 30th, 2024, on the CSX Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24mm @ 11mm, f/5.6, 1/950, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared photo, we catch a CSX Maintenance of Way crew unloading new ties along the right of way as they work their way south at Mortons Gap, Kentucky on June 24th, 2024, on the CSX Henderson Subdivision. For the past few weeks MOW crews have been preparing for a maintenance of way track curfew on the subdivision which from my understanding will start the first part of July.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24mm @ 11mm, f/5.6, 1/320, ISO 200.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared photo, we catch CSXT 3170 leading CSX I025 south prepare to pass under the overpass at Mannington, Kentucky, on May 30th, 2024, on the CSX Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24mm @ 13mm, f/5.6, 1/1000., ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared photo, we catch CSXT 5407 leading CSX I128 north after coming off the Gum Lick Trestle, north of Kelly, Kentucky, on May 30th, 2024, on the CSX Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24mm @ 10, f/5.6, 1/450., ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared photo, we catch Norfolk Southern 4821 leading CSX B210 south at Crofton, Kentucky on May 30th, 2024, on the CSX Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24mm @ 14mm, f/5.6, 1/950., ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared photo, we catch CSXT 3170 leading CSX I025 south as they cross over the Red River, just north of Adams, Tennessee on May 30th, 2024, on the CSX Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24mm @ 17mm, f/5.6, 1/950., ISO 400.
This week’s Saturday Infrared photo is of Thomas the Tank Engine as it crosses over Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Chickamauga Creek bridge as it heads to West Chattanooga, Tennessee on April 27th, 2024.
The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum was founded as a chapter of the National Railway Historical Society in 1960 by Paul H. Merriman and Robert M. Soule, Jr., along with a group of local railway preservationists. They wanted to save steam locomotives and railway equipment for future historical display and use. Today, the museum offers various tourist excursions from stations in Chattanooga and Etowah, Tennessee.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24 @ 10mm, f/5.6, 1/150, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared photo, we catch CSXT 4745 leading loaded grain train G413 southbound at Mortons Gap, Kentucky on National Train Day, on May 11th, 2024.
National Train Day marks the anniversary of the establishment of the Golden Spike in Promontory, Utah, at the Promontory summit. The day also observes the first anniversary of the rail route system in the United States.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24mm @ 14mm, f/5.6, 1/80., ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared photo, we catch BNSF 97117 bringing up the rear as DPU on a loaded coal train working its way through the loop at the TVA power plant at Kingston, Tennessee, on April 28th, 2024.
DPU. Stands for Distributed Power Unit, a locomotive set capable of remote-control operation in conjunction with locomotive unites at the train’s head end. DPUs are placed in the middle or at the rear of heavy trains (such as coal, or grain) to help climb steep grades.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24mm @ 14mm, f/5.6, 1/950, ISO 400.
This week’s Saturday Infrared photo is of Tennessee Valley Railroad Museums’ Southern Railway 630 steam locomotive as it heads to East Chattanooga, Tennessee on one of the many daily trains between East and West Chattanooga on April 27th, 2024.
According to Wikipedia: Southern Railway 630 is a 2-8-0 “Consolidation” type steam locomotive built in February 1904 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Richmond, Virginia for the Southern Railway as a member of the Ks-1 class. It is currently owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee where it resides today for use on excursion trains.
The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum was founded as a chapter of the National Railway Historical Society in 1960 by Paul H. Merriman and Robert M. Soule, Jr., along with a group of local railway preservationists. They wanted to save steam locomotives and railway equipment for future historical display and use. Today, the museum offers various tourist excursions from stations in Chattanooga and Etowah, Tennessee.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24 @ 10mm, f/5.6, 1/500, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared Photo, we catch CSXT 7201 as it leads hot intermodal I025 south through the cut approaching the Cavanaugh Road overpass just north of Kelly, Kentucky, on April 13th, 2024, on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24 @ 20mm, f/5.6, 1/450, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared Photo, we catch CSXT 5469 as it leads M647 into the siding at Trenton, Kentucky to wait on hot intermodal I026 headed north, on April 15th, 2004, as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared photo, we catch CSX 3329 and 108 leading a northbound M512 as they approach the north end of the siding at Crofton, Ky on April 6th, 2024, on the CSX Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24mm @ 10mm, f/5.6, 1/340, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared Photo, we catch CSX local L391 as it heads north out of Mortons Gap, Kentucky on March 26th, 2024, on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Sigma 150-600 @ 320mm, f/5.6, 1/210, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared Photo, we catch CSX intermodal I128 as it pulls under the highway 41 overpass at Mortons Gap, Kentucky on March 26th, 2024, on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Sigma 150-600 @ 240mm, f/5.6, 1/125, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared Photo, CSXT 3177 leads M647 south from the north end of Kelly, Kentucky with a long string of Bradly Fighting Vehicles on the Henderson Subdivision on March 19th, 2024.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24 @ 24mm, f/5.6, 1/850, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared Photo, CSXT 3261 leads intermodal train, I128, around the curve at the north end of Kelly, Kentucky, on the Henderson Subdivision as they head north on March 3rd, 2024.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 70-300 @ 100mm, f/5.6, 1/250, ISO 400.
This week’s Saturday Infrared photo was captured on October 20th, 2023, as the crew on Denver and Rio Grande Western 168 rounded a curve with a freight train at the Big Horn Wye during a recent photo charter, between Antonito and Osier, Colorado.
According to their website: the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad is a National Historic Landmark. At 64-miles in length, it is the longest, the highest and most authentic steam railroad in North America, traveling through some of the most spectacular scenery in the Rocky Mountain West.
Owned by the states of Colorado and New Mexico, the train crosses state borders 11 times, zigzagging along canyon walls, burrowing through two tunnels, and steaming over 137-foot Cascade Trestle. All trains steam along through deep forests of aspens and evergreens, across high plains filled with wildflowers, and through a rocky gorge of remarkable geologic formations. Deer, antelope, elk, fox, eagles and even bear are frequently spotted on this family friendly, off-the grid adventure.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24mm @ 10mm, f/5.6, 1/340, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared Photo, CSXT 5351 leads intermodal train, I128, past the old Louisville and Nashville (L&N) Railroad Depot. on the Henderson Subdivision as they head north on February 21st, 2024.
According to Wikipedia: “The L&N Railroad Depot in the Hopkinsville Commercial Historic District of Hopkinsville, Kentucky is a historic railroad station on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in 1892.
The year 1832 saw the first of many attempts to woo a railroad to Hopkinsville. This first attempt was to connect Hopkinsville to Eddyville, Kentucky. In 1868 Hopkinsville finally obtained a railroad station, operated by the Evansville, Henderson, & Nashville Railroad. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad acquired the railroad in 1879.
The Hopkinsville depot is a single-story frame building with a slate roof. It has six rooms: A Ladies Waiting room (the room closest to the street), a General Waiting Room, a Colored Waiting Room, a baggage room (the furthest room from the street), a ticket office (the only room which connected to all three waiting rooms), and a ladies’ restroom. Immediately outside were warehouses for freight, usually tobacco.
Its last long-distance (passenger) train was the Louisville and Nashville’s Georgian, last operating in 1968.
During its operating years, the Hopkinsville depot was a popular layover spot for those traveling by train. It was the only Louisville & Nashville station between Evansville, Indiana and Nashville, Tennessee where it was legal to drink alcohol. Hopkinsville got the nickname “Hop town” due to train passengers asking the conductors when they would arrive at Hopkinsville, so they could “hop off and get a drink”.
The Hopkinsville L&N Railroad Depot was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 1, 1975. CSX, which bought out the Louisville & Nashville, still run trains on the tracks next to the depot, but do not stop.”
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24 @ 10mm, f/5.6, 1/340, ISO 400.
In this week’s Saturday Infrared photo, we catch Denver and Rio Grande Western double header steam locomotives 473 and 476 as they pull a freight and passenger train through Whitehead Gulch during a two-day charter between Durango and Silverton, Colorado on October 16th, 2023.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24 @ 24mm, f/4.5, 1/45, ISO 400.