September 13, 2015 – The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 4501, a Baldwin 2-8-2 built in 1911, backs into the station at Chattanooga, Tennessee past Southern diesel unit 2594, A GP30 built in 1963, after returning with a loaded passenger train from Cleveland, Tennessee during the TVRM’s 2015 Railfest. Tech Info all photos: 1/1250sec, f/10, ISO 500, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 13, 2015 – Norfolk Southern Heritage unit 1069, The Virginian. rolls past NS 6920, the Honoring Our Veterans unit, as it rolls east on a manifest train at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum at Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Veterans unit just returned with a loaded passenger train from Cleveland, Tennessee during the Museum’s 2015 Railfest. It was a rare stand-in for Southern 4501 that had fire box issues with it’s last run. – Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/7, ISO 320, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 70mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 12, 2015 – The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 4501 heads into the wye at Citico Junction on the Norfolk Southern Mainline at Chattanooga, Tennessee after returning with a loaded passenger train from Cleveland, Tennessee during the Museum’s 2015 Railfest. The train was turned in the they wye and then headed back to the TVRM station.
4501 was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1911 for the Southern Railway, the 4501 was the first of its class on that railroad. The wheel arrangement is a 2-8-2, known as a Mikado since the first of this type were sold to Japan. 4501 served the Southern until the 1940s when the railroad began buying diesel locomotives and phasing out steam operations. It then then saw service on a small coal-hauling railroad in Kentucky. Since the mid-1960s, 4501 has pulled countless passenger excursion trains across the Southern (later Norfolk Southern) Railway. The 4501 ended its service in 1999 due to rising maintenance costs. However, with the start of Norfolk Southern’s “21st Century Steam” program, the 4501 returned to service this year.
Tech Info all photos: 1/1000sec, f/5.6, ISO 720, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 13, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s Heritage Veteran’s Unit 6920 pulls a passenger train on the NS Mainline at Chattanooga, Tennessee as it returns from a round trip to Cleveland, Tennessee, approaching the Jersey Pike Crossing, during the Tennessee Valley Railway Museum’s 2015 Railfest. 6920 was pressed into service when they had a issue with the firebox on Southern 4501, reportedly due to bad coal. – Tech Info all photos: 1/1250sec, f/7, ISO 400, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 13, 2015 – The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 4501 heads from the museum onto the Norfolk Southern Mainline at Chattanooga, Tennessee with a loaded passenger train bound for a round trip to Cleveland, Tennessee during the Museum’s 2015 Railfest.
4501 was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1911 for the Southern Railway, the 4501 was the first of its class on that railroad. The wheel arrangement is a 2-8-2, known as a Mikado since the first of this type were sold to Japan. 4501 served the Southern until the 1940s when the railroad began buying diesel locomotives and phasing out steam operations. It then then saw service on a small coal-hauling railroad in Kentucky. Since the mid-1960s, 4501 has pulled countless passenger excursion trains across the Southern (later Norfolk Southern) Railway. The 4501 ended its service in 1999 due to rising maintenance costs. However, with the start of Norfolk Southern’s “21st Century Steam” program, the 4501 returned to service this year.
Tech Info all photos: 1/1250sec, f/10, ISO 900, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. ?#?jimstrainphotos?
August 20, 2015 – A CSX loaded coal train with engine 3171 in the lead heads through the north end of Crofton, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info all photos: 1/2500sec, f/5.6, ISO 280, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 92mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
August 19, 2015 – This is a shot of the old L&N Depot on CSX’s Henderson Subdivision in Henderson, Ky. Currently it’s unused and the city of Henderson is planning to raze the depot, and is budgeting $80,100 to do it this year unless someone steps in to save it. As much as he would love to see the old building restored, Assistant City Manager William “Buzzy” Newman thinks it is too dangerous to leave alone. It’s looking more and more like it’ll fall. – Tech Info: 1/800sec, f/5.6, ISO 100, Lens: Rokinon 14mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
August 20, 2015 – CSX Q294 heads through the north end of Crofton, Ky as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info all photos: 1/2500sec, f/4, ISO 180, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 40mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 9, 2015 – CSX Q596 heads north through the south end of Romney siding as it approaches Nortonville, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info all photos: 1/640sec, f/4, ISO 800, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 62mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 9, 2015 – CSX loaded coal train N008-09 approaches the Pride Avenue crossing at Madisonville,Ky on CSX’s Morganfield Branch as it heads to Atkinson Yard where it continued it’s move south on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info all photos: 1/1250sec, f/4.5, ISO 900, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 110mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 9, 2015 – CSX C35, with engine 3221, pulls a short train of seven cars through Mortons Gap, Ky as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info all photos: 1/500sec, f/5.6, ISO 900, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 8, 2015 – CSX Q588 heads into the south end of Romney siding as it moves its mixed freight train north on the Henderson Subdivision at Nortonville, Ky. – Tech Info: 1/1000sec, f/4, ISO 125, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 40mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 8, 2015 – CSX loaded DPU coal train N101-07 heads out of Mortons Gap, Ky as it approaches the north end of Nortonville siding as it head south on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/1000sec, f/4, ISO 125, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
August 21, 2015 – A Paducah and Louisville Railway local with 3811 as it’s lead engine pulls out of the P&L yard at Paducah, Ky. – Tech Info all photos: 1/1000sec, f/13, ISO 1250, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 240mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW
August 21, 2015 – Paducah & Louisville Railway’s 2107 heads south approaching the yard at Princeton, Ky as it heads up a load of military equipment. – Tech Info: 1/1000sec, f/9, ISO 100, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 6, 2015 – A Paducah & Louisville Railway local was headed up by U of L locomotive 2013 and had GMTX lease unit 3305, which is leased to Louis Dreyfus Commodities, as part of it’s consist at West Yard in Madisonville, Ky. The train was on it’s way to do interchange work at CSX’s Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, Ky
August 17, 2015 – CSX Q647-16 with three lease units as power, CEFX 2814, HLCX 6313 and CEFX 3119, head south through the siding at Hanson, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info all photos: 1/2500sec, f/7, ISO 1600, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 250mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
August 21, 2015 – CSX engine 649 pulls its loaded coal train south on the Paducah & Louisville Railway at Princeton, Ky as it heads for Calvert City, Ky. Tech Info: 1/1000sec, f/6.3, ISO 125, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 110mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
August 31, 2015 – CSX’s engine 651 heads up work train W083, a southbound ballast train, on the Henderson Subdivision at Mortons Gap. Ky. Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/13, ISO 1600, Lens: Rokinon 14mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
August 31, 2015 – CSX’s engine 701, a ES44AH, heads up a string of four engines as they lead CSX Q026 northbound on the Henderson Subdivision at Mortons Gap. Ky. I couldn’t resist including the selfie! Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/13, ISO 1400, Lens: Rokinon 14mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
August 28, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s Heritage unit 1069, The Virginian, passes through Horse Branch, Ky on the Paducah & Louisville Railway as it heads north with a loaded coal train. Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/13, ISO 2000, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 70mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.