January 24, 2015 – A Paducah and Louisville Railroad crew heads south with a loaded coal train with CSX 905 on point as they approach the crossing at Pond River, just east of Madisonville, Ky.

February 4, 2015 – A CSX MOW crew works on repairs to the diamond at Trident in Madisonville, Ky on the CSX Henderson Subdivision.

January 21, 2015 – CSX T108 (Clay, KY – Bostwick, FL) heads down the grade on the Morganfield Branch with a loaded coal train as it approaches the crossing at Noel Avenue in Madisonville, Ky.

January 23, 2015 – CSX engines 685 and 502 prepare to take the switch at East Diamond with their empty coal train from the Earlington Cutoff at Madisonville, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision.

January 23, 2015 – CSX T103 (Manitou, KY – Bostwick, FL) pulls away from Warrior Coal with a full load as it rounds a curve toward Atkinson Yard at Madisonville, Ky through a heavy snowfall.

January 20, 2015 – Northbound CSX Q124 passes through Monarch at milepost 274, on the Henderson Subdivision, with engine 426 on point as it heads through Madisonville, Ky.

January 30, 2015 – Canadian Pacific’s 9519 heads up CSX’s Q645-29 as they move from the Earlington Cutoff onto the Henderson Subdivision main at Mortons Gap, Ky on it’s way south with Norfolk Southern’s 9659, a HLCX lease unit 7203 and Union Pacific’s 5011 in tow.

January 30, 2015 – Canadian Pacific’s 9519 heads up CSX’s Q645-29 as they move south at the north end of Romney at Nortonville, Ky with Norfolk Southern’s 9659, HLCX lease unit 7203 and Union Pacific’s 5011 in tow on the Henderson Subdivision.

January 30, 2015 – CSX rail train, MO35-30, with 6465 on point, has been working on dropping rail in the curves in our area. These photos are at Nortonville, Ky as it heads north to it’s next drop area at the north end of the Nortonville siding on the Henderson Subdivision.

January 28, 2015 – CSX Q592 with engines, 5391, 986, CP 8780 and 3091, make their way through the south end of Hanson Siding, as they head north into Hanson, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision.

January 29, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville Railway local heads past West Yard on it’s way to CSX’s Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, Ky to drop off Pan Am Railway 503, a couple CSX engines that have been to Paducah, Ky for work and freight.

January 24, 2015 – CSX Q028 heads through North Romney, with engine 5484 in the lead, as it heads north at Nortonville, Ky with a intermodal train on the Henderson Subdivision after an overnight snowfall.

January 20, 2015 – CSX Q025, with engine 66 on point, approaches the overpass at Cavanaugh Lane as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision at Kelly, Ky.

January 24, 2015 – CSX 905 heads south along the Paducah and Louisville Railway passing milepost 135 at Bremen, Ky with a loaded coal train as it heads toward Madisonville, Ky.

January 20, 2015 – A CSX Grain train with engine 423 in the lead rounds the curve approaching the crossing on Arnold Place in Madisonville, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision.

Sitting in the loop at Cimarron Mine in Madisonville, Ky waiting to go north.

January 24, 2015 – Norfolk and Southern engine 8007 leads a loaded coal train north on the Paducah and Louisville Railroad after loading at Cimarron Mine in Madisonville, Ky.

Heading north on the Paducah and Louisville railroad from Cimarron Mine in Madisonville, Ky.

Approaching Pond River Crossing just east of Cimarron Mine in Madisonville, Ky.

Rounding the curve heading into Rockport, Ky on the Paducah and Louisville Railroad.

January 22, 2015 – A Paducah and Louisville conductor makes his way back to his train at milepost 149.4 as they prepare to move north with their empty coal train, with UP engine 9828 in the lead. This shot is right at the switch that goes out to Warrior Coal and the Peevee Spur at West Yard in Madisonville, Ky.

January 20, 2015 – CSX Q029 heads south under the Paducah and Louisville Railroad at CSX’s Monarch in Madisonville, Ky under a yellow light due to another grain train just ahead of him. The grain train was to take the siding at Nortonville, Ky to allow the hot intermodal to pass. One day I hope to catch a P&L train going over as a CSX comes north under it. I keep going back, but it hasn’t happened yet. Ah the joys of railfanning!

Approaching Rockport, Ky

January 24, 2014 – Norfolk and Southern’s Heritage unit, Norfolk and Western 8103, brings up the rear of loaded coal train NS LCL3 as it heads north out of Cimarron Mine in Madisonville, Ky on the Paducah and Louisville Railroad.

Just past the Pond River Crossing east of Madisonville, Ky.

Departing the mines and heading toward Pond River Siding, Madisonville, Ky.

January 24, 2015 – CSX Q028 passes the signals at North Romney as it heads north at Nortonville, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision in a winter wonderland of white.

January 23, 2015 – CSX T103, Manitou, KY – Bostwick, FL, pulls away from Warrior Coal with a full load as it heads toward Atkinson Yard at Madisonville, Ky through a heavy snowfall.

January 20, 2015 – CSX Q028 passes under the North Main Street overpass as it makes it’s way north through Madisonville, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision, with engine 465 in the lead.