June 8, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville’s LGE train sits in the pouring rain as they prepare to depart Cimarron Mine in Madisonville, Ky for the Louisville Gas & Electric plant with UK 2012 and UL 2013 as their leading units. Tech Info: 1/1600sec, f/5.6, ISO 560, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos

June 8, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville’s UK engine 2012 and UL 2013 head through head down CSX Henderson Subdivision’s cutoff at Madisonville, Ky with a loaded coal train for Louisville Gas and Electric. The train came off CSX’s Morganfield Branch from Clay, Ky and went onto the P&L at East Diamond, where it went on north to Louisville. Tech Info: 1/1600sec, f/3.2, ISO 200, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos

June 8, 2015 – I caught this lone deer standing in the fog on the Paducah and Louisville’s right-of-way at the highway 175 crossing just outside Bremen, Ky while I was waiting for the northbound Louisville Gas & Electric (LGE) coal train. Tech Info: 1/1600sec, f/5.6, ISO 4000, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos

June 8, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville’s Louisville Gas & Electric loaded coal train passes the signal just before the highway 175 crossing just outside Bremen, Ky as it heads north with University of Kentucky engine 2012 on point, cutting through the fog. Tech Info: 1/1000sec, f/5.6, ISO 3200, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. #jimstrainphotos

May 6, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville’s 3807 sits tied to a local freight in an industrial area at Calvert City, Ky.

May 2, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville Railroad’s University of Louisville engine 2013 heads up northbound loaded coal train with University of Kentucky engine 2012 trailing behind on LSX1 at Rosine, Ky.

May 2, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville Railroad’s University of Louisville engine 2013 heads up northbound loaded coal train with University of Kentucky engine 2012 trailing behind on LSX1 at Rockport, Ky.

May 2, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville Railroad’s University of Louisville engine 2013 heads up northbound loaded coal train with University of Kentucky engine 2012 trailing behind on LSX1 at McHenry, Ky. Tracks in the foreground lead out to the Armstrong Mine.

May 2, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville Railroad’s University of Louisville engine 2013 heads up northbound loaded coal train with University of Kentucky engine 2012 trailing behind on LSX1 at McHenry, Ky. Tracks in the foreground lead out to the Armstrong Mine.

May 2, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville Railroad’s University of Louisville engine 2013 heads up northbound loaded coal train, LSX1, at Horse Branch, Ky.

May 2, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville’s U of L engine 2013 leads LSX1, a loaded coal train, north at Caneyville, Ky. #jimstrainphotos

May 2, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville Railroad’s LG Relief crew, LSX1 (weekend runs to Louisville Gas & Electric), heads north across the Big Clifty trestle with it’s loaded coal train with U of L 2013, UK 2012 and 4502 as power, just north of Clarkson, Ky as twilight begins to fall.