June 24, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s 8081 at Cimarron Mine, Madisonville, Ky

June 24, 2015 - A Conductor watches Norfolk Southern's 8081 pull through the switch out onto the main from the siding at Cimarron Mine in Madisonville, Ky after doing a run-around of it's loaded coal train, while they prepare to hook onto the rear to start their movement north on the Paducah and Louisville Railway. - Tech Info: 1/800sec, f/14, ISO 1000, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos

June 24, 2015 – A Conductor watches Norfolk Southern’s 8081 pull through the switch out onto the main from the siding at Cimarron Mine in Madisonville, Ky after doing a run-around of it’s loaded coal train, while they prepare to hook onto the rear to start their movement north on the Paducah and Louisville Railway. – Tech Info: 1/800sec, f/14, ISO 1000, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos

June 24, 2015 - Norfolk Southern's 8081 heads north at Cimarron Mine in Madisonville, Ky with it's loaded coal train, on the Paducah and Louisville Railway.

June 24, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s 8081 heads north at Cimarron Mine in Madisonville, Ky with it’s loaded coal train, on the Paducah and Louisville Railway.

June 2, 2015 – Illinois Terminal Heritage Unit 1072

June 2, 2015 – Thanks to a heads up post by fellow railfan and great photographer Tom Barrows of Evansville, IN, I was able to catch my second Norfolk Southern Heritage Unit today! When we arrived at the overlook to the Sitran Coal Dock and Abengoa ethanol plant at West Franklin, IN, the weather was overcast and it looked like the it was going to be fairly bad, but the sun finally came out just as the train was leaving with Illinois Terminal Heritage Unit 1072 in the lead. The Vectren power plant is in the background of some of the shots.The Illinois Terminal railroad along with many others was bought up by Norfork Southern years ago and NS has repainted about 20 of their engines in the paint schemes of many of those roads.