March 9, 2019 – A rainbow appears to end on the CSX Henderson Subdivision at Trenton, Ky after a heavy storm passes through the area. Unfortunately with the signals red in both directions I wasn’t lucky enough catch a northbound train approaching me at the crossing at the north end of the Trenton siding. Still, it’s not always about a train, is it! – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad
High Flight over Mortons Gap, Ky.
Moonrise over Mortons Gap, Ky.
During my recent trip to Chicago to photograph trains I caught this light painter at work along the shoreline as I was shooting the Chicago Skyline at night. Hope everyone enjoys something a little different!
June 23, 2018 – Day 235 – iPhone 7 Plus Daily B/W Photo Challenge – Round Barn – My sister and I made a trip to Paris, Kentucky to attend the Cane Ridge Celebration at the birthplace of our church (Disciples of Christ) and as we were heading home I spotted this scene with a round barn and fell in love with it! One of things I love about traveling the back road as you never know what picture waits to be captured around the next bend!
May 22, 2017 – Spending a few days in the Red River Gorge, looking for waterfalls, I found an unlikely one at the Nada Tunnel where the Big Woods, Red River & Lombard Railroad company’s 25-ton and a 35-ton Climax locomotives used to haul logs from the Red River valley through the tunnel to a saw mill 15 miles to the west in Clay City, Ky.
Nada Tunnel is a historic 900-foot tunnel along Kentucky Route 77 in Powell County, Kentucky. The presently paved tunnel has often been described as the “Gateway to Red River Gorge” for the shortcut it provides motorists to the Red River Gorge canyons of the Daniel Boone National Forest.
Built for the Dana Lumber Company between 1910 and 1911, Nada Tunnel was named after Nada, Kentucky, then a logging town about 10 miles past the tunnel’s entrance. Solid limestone was blasted with dynamite and dug out with steam machinery and hand tools, with two teams working from each side of the ridge.
The tunnel’s original dimensions were 12 by 12 feet, but when the first train load of logs became stuck and had to be blasted free, the tunnel’s height was increased to 13 feet. Narrow gauge steam locomotives of the Big Woods, Red River & Lombard Railroad regularly hauled timber extracted from the vast forests of the Red River Valley through the tunnel, to a sawmill 15 miles away in Clay City.
Once the forests had been cleared, the timber companies pulled out of the area. The railroad tracks were removed and a dirt road was laid in the unlit tunnel to accommodate horse and pedestrian traffic. Nada Tunnel has since been paved to carry a single lane of road traffic and is used by many to enter the Red River Gorge area.
May 22, 2017 – My sister and I just got back from a trip to Red River Gorge in Eastern Kentucky. One of the many trails we walked was the Rock Bridge Loop Trail (207) and about halfway in is Creation Falls, considered by many to be one of the nicest falls in the Gorge and by far the nicest we photographed. This was a fact finding trip for the future and this is one spot we plan to come back to and spend more time at!
September 10, 2016 – Smoking Dark Tobacco, south of Pembroke, Ky. – Fuji X-T1 Camera
May 10, 2016 – “The storm has passed” – On my way home from photographing trains along the Paducah and Louisville Railway, I found myself at Kentucky Dam just at the right time to capture this ominous and beautiful scene of the storm front that moved through Western Kentucky today. – Tech Info: 1/200 | f/2.8 | ISO 640 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 56mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
A collection of photographs I shot during the Pennyrile Forest’s Spring Photography Weekend in Dawson Springs, Ky.
January 20, 2016 – Usually when I’m out photographing trains I stumble upon other things that catch my eye such as this old barn at Rahm, Indiana. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/6.3 | ISO 100 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 31mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.