February 17, 2015 – CSX Q029, being led by Norfolk Southern 8871, waits for a signal at Mortons Junction on the cutoff heading south on the Henderson Subdivision at Mortons Gap, Ky. Intermodals as a rule don’t take the cutoff, but 29 was having problems with it’s second engine and had to switch it out at Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, Ky.
February 19, 2015 – CSX Q515-17 waits for a northbound at the south end of Romney siding with an interesting lash-up including, CEFX 3155, CSX Switcher 1108 and CITX 3070, all waiting to go south at dusk on the Henderson Subdivision from Nortonville, Ky.
February 19, 2015 – BNSF 5212 leads CSX K092, a empty crude oil train, through Earlington, Ky at dusk as it makes it’s way north on the Henderson Subdivision. The trailing unit is CP 8560.
February 18, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville 2118 passes the signals at MP 153.3 as it pulls a 90 car train north through Richland, Ky on it’s way to Warrior Coal in Manitou, Ky to pick up a load.
February 17, 2015 – CSX Q025 crests the top of the hill at Mortons Junction heading south on the Henderson Subdivision at Mortons Gap, Ky with engine 349 on point.
February 17, 2015 – Norfolk Southern 8871 leads CSX Q029 as it pulls off the Earlington Cutoff at Mortons Junction heading south on the Henderson Subdivision at Mortons Gap, Ky.
February 18, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville coal train with UK 1998 & 2012 engines at Richland, Ky from Jim Pearson on Vimeo.
February 16, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville University of Kentucky engines 1998 and 2012 were the 3rd and 4th units on a empty coal train heading to Warrior Coal at Manitou, Ky as they headed north through Richland, Ky.
February 16, 2015 – CSX employees work on cleaning snow and ice from the switch at East Diamond on the Earlington Cutoff in Madisonville, Ky during a heavy snowfall on the Henderson Subdivision that affected rail operations throughout the subdivision.
February 16, 2015 – CSX Q597 pulls it’s train south, through the driving snow, with engine 669 on point as it approaches the north end of the Nortonville, Ky siding on the Henderson Subdivision.
February 16, 2015 – Evansville Western Railway Z467, with 4520 in the lead, heads south on CSX’s Earlington Cutoff at Madisonville, Ky, with it’s coal train on the Henderson Subdivision. In most places along the subdivision 10-12 inches of snow fell causing a lot of delays for trains.
February 16, 2015 – The conductor from southbound CSX Q597-15 cleans snow and ice from the switch at Mortons Junction in Mortons Gap, Ky, as his train waits in the background. The Henderson Subdivision saw on average about 10-12 inches of snow fall in the last 12 hours and has caused things to slow down a bit on the subdivision.
February 16, 2015 – Evansville Western’s 4520 kicks up some snow as it passes through the McCoy Avenue crossing at Madisonville, Ky as it heads south with it’s coal train toward East Diamond on CSX’s Earlington Cutoff on the Henderson Subdivision.
February 16, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville’s UK 2012 70MAC leads the way through the heavy snow at Richland, Ky with a loaded coal train heading south toward Paducah, Ky.
February 12, 2015 – A CSX empty grain train, with engine 398 on point, rounds the curve heading to the south end of Romney as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision at Mannington, Ky in a light snowfall.
February 12, 2015 – CSX loaded grain train G154, with engine 31 on point, passes the signals at the north end of Kelly Siding as it heads south at Kelly, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision.
February 12, 2015 – CSX Q025 with engine 721 on point heads south past the old Louisville and Nashville Depot at Madisonville, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision. The building belongs to the city and many civic organizations, including the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS, meet there monthly.
February 7, 2015 – A CSX northbound empty coal train, with engine 5414 in the lead, heads into Pembroke, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision with four units trailing.
February 12, 2015 – CSX Q592 passes under the signals toward the north end of Casky as engine 4769 leads it’s train north at Hopkinsville, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision. The last engine is in the consist was OFOX 3084.
February 12, 2015 – CSX Q596 kicks up a powder of light snow as it rounds the curve headed to the south end of Nortonville siding as it makes it’s way north at Nortonville, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision with engine 487 on point.
February 12, 2015 – CSX engine 542 approaches the south end of of Kelly siding as it pulls a empty Ethanol train northbound at Kelly, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision.