The mid-train DPU on CSX C306 speeds southward as it approaches the bridge over the Ohio River at Henderson, Kentucky, on October 28th, 2022, into the rising sun on the Henderson Subdivision. This train runs between Evansville, IN (Evansville Western Railway), White Oak Mine at Dahlgren, IL and Georgia Power’s Bowen Plant at Stilesboro, GA.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2.5sec, ISO 100.
Saturday, October 29th, 2022, the Paducah and Louisville Railway (PAL) ran their Office Car Special (OCS) between Calvert City, Kentucky to just north of Barkley Dam to the railroad location known as Eureka, about 10 miles round trip. This event was in conjunction with their company picnic at Calvert City and the passengers were employees and their families. Here we catch them as they cross the Tennessee River passing Kentucky Dam, just north of Gilbertsville, Kentucky.
The consist was led by their 35th anniversary units PAL 2021 and 1986, followed by PAL 10, a generator car, built from an ex-L&N Milk Car that was manufactured in January 1958. Next was PAL II – lounge car or diner car from what I can find online, then PAL 1 “Bluegrass State I” business or lounge car, (ex-ICG 2, exx-IC 6, exxx-16). If anyone has more information on these cars, Id apricate your comments. The trailing engine is PAL 2127, Salute to our Troops locomotive, which led the train heading southbound to Calvert City, KY.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/730, ISO 110.
Saturday, October 29th, 2022, the Paducah and Louisville Railway (PAL) ran their Office Car Special (OCS) between Calvert City, Kentucky to just north of Barkley Dam to the railroad location known as Eureka, about 10 miles round trip. This event was in conjunction with their company picnic at Calvert City and the passengers were employees and their families. Here we catch them as they cross the Tennessee River passing Kentucky Dam, just north of Gilbertsville, Kentucky.
The consist was led by their 35th anniversary units PAL 2021 and 1986, followed by PAL 10, a generator car, built from an ex-L&N Milk Car that was manufactured in January 1958. Next was PAL II – lounge car or diner car from what I can find online, then PAL 1 “Bluegrass State I” business or lounge car, (ex-ICG 2, exx-IC 6, exxx-16). If anyone has more information on these cars, Id apricate your comments. The trailing engine is PAL 2127, Salute to our Troops locomotive, which led the train heading southbound to Calvert City, KY.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/730, ISO 110.
CSXT 5475 leads aa empty grain train as it passes through Mortons Junction at Mortons Gap, Kentucky in the early fall morning light as they head northbound on the Henderson Subdivision at Milepost 268 on October 17th, 2022.
Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Sigma 150-600 @ 600mm, f/6.3, 1/500, ISO 450.
Running away from the rising sun, CSXT 3411 heads up M500 as they make their way across the Ohio River from Henderson, Kentucky on October 14th, 2022, heading north on the Henderson Subdivision toward Evansville, IN.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/4000, ISO 110.
CSXT 928 leads M513 as it navigates the S curve at Nortonville, Kentucky, during the “golden hour,” as they head south on the Henderson Subdivision on October 14th, 2022.
Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Sigma 150-600 @ 180mm, f/5, 1/400, ISO 200.
In this Infrared view we find CSX empty coal train E319 heading north as it passes the signals at the south end of the siding at Latham on October 7th, 2022, at Hopkinsville, Kentucky on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Holga 60mm pinhole lens, 1/180, ISO 1000.
Evansville Western Railway (EVWR) 4517 and Paducah and Louisville Railway (PAL) University of Kentucky locomotive 2012 lead a loaded coal train past the siding at Dawson Springs, Kentucky on October 8th, 2022, as they head south on the PAL on a beautiful fall morning.
The Paducah & Louisville Railway (reporting mark PAL) is a Class II railroad that operates freight service between Paducah and Louisville, Kentucky. The line is located entirely within the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The parent company of the PAL, P&L Transportation, also operates the Evansville Western Railway and the Appalachian and Ohio Railroad.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO 110.
CSX M513 approaches the north side of the Ohio River Bridge at Henderson, Kentucky, as the early morning sunrise casts long shadows, on October 13th, 2022, as the train makes its way south up the viaduct at Rahm, Indiana over the floodplain on the Henderson Subdivision.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO 110.
Close but no cigar! Many of you here know I’ve been trying to catch two trains at this location called Monarch here in Madisonville, Ky for a long time now, where the Paducah and Louisville Railway (PAL) crosses over the CSX Henderson Subdivision (HD) and I almost did today, October 14th, 2022.
On the lower track off in the distance sits CSX M502, a mixed fright that runs from Radnor Yard at Nashville, TN to Clearing Yard, in Chicago, IL, and was told by dispatch to stop short of the crossings through downtown Madisonville as they needed to wait on a southbound at the location know as Arklow. The southbound was still about 15 minutes out and they didnt want 502 to block all the crossings through downtown.
I setup to get him passing under the Paducah and Louisville Railway when I heard a train blowing the crossing about 3 miles away about 15 minutes into 502s wait! I had hoped dispatch would give him a signal to move during the time that this empty CSXT 294 appeared leading an empty coke train northbound on the PAL (in YN2 Paint even) arrived or was passing through on its way back from unloading at the Calvert City Terminal at Calvert City, KY. I was hoping it was a PAL train, but these days Ill take whatever I can get!
Well as you can see, M502 sat still on the HD, as the scene basked in the early morning fall light, and never moved at all until about 1 minute after this train cleared Monarch! It happens and I still love the resulting picture but isnt what I wanted and of course I plan to keep trying! Persistence will pay off!
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 100.
CSX Honoring our Law Enforcement locomotive 3194 leads M648 north across Gum Lick Trestle, between Kelly and Crofton, Kentucky, as the first signs of fall begin to show in the trees as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision on September 26th, 2022. Gum Lick is the highest trestle on the Henderson Subdivision, which runs between Nashville, TN and Evansville, IN.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 110.
CSX B207, a combined Phosphate and Ethanol train, heads north over the Ohio River from Henderson, KY at dawn as it slowly makes its way north on the CSX Henderson Subdivision with its train on September 22, 2022, the first day of autumn!
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/8th second, ISO 690.
Paducah and Louisville Railway 4516 leads the northbound Louisville Gas and Electric loaded coal train as it struggles up the hill at Rosine, Kentucky on September 1st, 2022, on the way to the power plant outside of Louisville, KY.
Tech Info: iPhone 13 Pro Max, Standard Lens, f/2.8, 1/272, ISO 32.
CSX Intermodal I028 rolls past a empty coal train at Arklow in Madisonville, Kentucky as it heads north on the CSX Henderson Subdivision on August 30th, 2022.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1000, ISO 100.
Norfolk Southern Heritage 1072 “Illinois Terminal” locomotive and Paducah and Louisville Railway University of Kentucky locomotive 4522, brings up the rear of a loaded coal train as they head north at Central City, Kentucky on June 24th, 2022, with a load for the Louisville Gas and Electric power plant, outside Louisville, KY.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1600, ISO 110.
CSXT 7018 leads a empty phosphate train north at Arklow in Madisonville, KY on May 17th, 2022, as CSXT 911 leading B420, a northbound empty coke train, waits with an empty coke train after dropping off its load at Calvert City Terminal at Calvert City, Ky on the Paducah and Louisville Railway.
CSXT 911 is one of several specialty painted units that CSX has painted in the last few years and this unit honors First Responders.
Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Sigma 150-600mm @ 400mm, f/6, 1/640, ISO 220.
UP 5970 leads CSX S988 as it heads south at Anaconda at Robards, Kentucky with two new Brightline Green and Pink commuter train sets, as they head for Florida, on the Henderson Subdivision on July 16th, 2022.
These train sets were built by Siemens in Sacramento, California and are destined for service along Brightline’s routes in Florida.
According to Wikipedia: Brightline is a privately run intercity rail route between Miami and West Palm Beach, Florida that runs on track owned by Florida East Coast Railway. An extension from West Palm Beach to Orlando International Airport is expected to open in 2023.
Brightline is the only privately owned and operated intercity passenger railroad in the United States. Its development started in March 2012 as All Aboard Florida by Florida East Coast Industries; a Florida real estate developer owned by Fortress Investment Group. Construction began in November 2014 and the route opened in January 2018.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2000 ISO 100.
Paducah and Louisville Railways’ (PAL) newly painted 35th Anniversary engines 1986 and 2021, lead the daily local from Princeton, KY as they do their interchange work with CSX at Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, KY on July 11th, 2022. Both units were done by Progress Rails shops in Mayfield, KY.
I’m told the two engines have been painted in colors and scheme closely matching the original PAL paint scheme from 1986 and are in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Paducah and Louisville Railway.
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1600 ISO 110.
CSX loaded military train S850 sits in the siding at the north end of Rankin, Kentucky as they meet a southbound I025 on the Henderson Subdivision on August 4th, 2022. This intermodal has been running with these autoracks loaded with Teslas on their way south. Today’s train had 25 autoracks. The cars range in price from $46,000 – $120,000, depending on the model.
Military Humvees cost around $70,000 each. Upgraded humvee variants, called armored or up-armored Humvees, carry higher price tags that range from $160,000 to $220000. A lot of money being moved here, not even including the intermodal shipments!
Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/2000 ISO 100.