January 22, 2016 – CSX Q647 approaches the north end of Romney siding at Nortonville, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision through the snow. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/2.8 | ISO 250 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 20, 2016 – CSX Q028 makes its way down the viaduct at Rham, Indiana, crossing the bridge at the Ohio River in Henderson, KY, as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/5.6 | ISO 100 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 20, 2016 – SavaTrans’ SS1 makes its way north with a empty coal train with SVTX 1986 and 1982 as power, at Mount Vernon, Indiana. The Chris Cline Group are owners of the company “Savatrans” which purchased three ES44AC locomotives numbered to represent the Penn State Championship football years # 1912, 1982, & 1986. Operating from Sugar Camp Mine in Akin, IL to Abee, IN near Mount Vernon/West Franklin area. – Tech Info: 1/1000 | f/2.8 | ISO 1000 | Lens: Nikon 18mm on a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 20, 2016 – CSX Q647 makes its way up the viaduct at Rham, Indiana as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/6.3 | ISO 110 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 150mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 20, 2016 – Savatrans SS1 pulls away from the Sitran Dock with a empty coal train with lease units SVTX 1986 and 1982 as power, at West Franklin, Indiana on a cold wintery day. In the background putting out all the steam is the Abengoa Bioenergy plant. The Chris Cline Group are owners of the company “Savatrans” which purchased three ES44AC locomotives numbered to represent the Penn State Championship football years # 1912, 1982, & 1986. Operating from Sugar Camp Mine in Akin, IL to Abee, IN near Mount Vernon/West Franklin area.- Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/6.3 | ISO 400 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 310mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 19, 2016 – Paducah and Louisville Railways loaded coal train WW2, with engines 4512, 2013 and 4502 as power, make their way north at Central City, Ky. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/4.5 | ISO 100 | Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 75mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 19, 2016 – CSX 519 leads a empty coal train north on the Paducah and Louisville Railway at Richland, Ky. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/5.6 | ISO 450 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 360mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 17, 2016 – Another neat find at Mount Vernon, Illinois, on my way home from St. Louis, was this ex-Cotton Belt engine (UP1963) tied to GMTX/GATX 2156 at one of the crossovers in town waiting for a crew or signal, not sure which. Both engines were running. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/2.8 | ISO 100 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 17, 2016 – NRE 1203, a Australian demo engine at National Railway Equipment’s Mt Vernon, Illinois shops, which from what I can find, was built from two SD40-2’s. It’s designated a 3GS24C-DE-AU. – Tech Info: 1/125 | f/5.3 | ISO 110 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 220mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 17, 2016 – During a overnight trip to St. Louis, MO, I found this small switcher at the Milano Scrap Metal and Recycling yard at Mount Vernon, Illinois. Don’t know much more about it, how about you? – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/2.8 | ISO 100 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 62mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 16, 2016 – Evansville Western Railway’s 4520 brings up the rear of a set of engine as it pulls back out onto the main after refueling at Mount Vernon, Indiana. – Tech Info: 1/4000 | f/5.6 | ISO 2200 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 300mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 11, 2016 – Hot intermodal, CSX Q026, heads north through Trenton, Ky with a full load of containers on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/4000 | f/5.6 | ISO 220 | Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 280mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 7, 2016 – CSX hot intermodal Q021 rounds Edgewood Curve at Slaughters, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/6 | ISO 500 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 500mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 11, 2016 – CSX Q586 passes the new food grade canola plant as it heads north through Trenton, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision. – Tech Info: 1/4000 | f/4.5 | ISO 140 | Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 82mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 7, 2016 – A Evansville Western Railway local, with engine 3836 in the lead, works at dropping off and picking up cars at the north end of Nations Siding, just outside Mount Vernon, Indiana. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/6.3 | ISO 1100 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 600mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 8, 2016 – Norfolk Southern engine 8975 heads up a loaded coke train as it heads south on the Paducah and Louisville Railway through Charleston, Ky. – Tech Info: 1/400 | f/2.8 | ISO 1400 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 62mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
January 6, 2016 – The warm light of the late afternoon sun shines on SOO 6037, CP Units 6241 & 2218 and PAL 4511 as they set in the engine service facility at CSX’s Atkinson Yard in Madisonville, Ky. – Tech Info: 1/2000 | f/2.8 | ISO 140 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 52mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 12, 2015 – The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 4501 returns to the station at the museum after turning on the wye at Citco Junction on Norfolk Southern’s mainline, during it’s return trip from Cleveland on the Norfolk Southern Mainline at Chattanooga, Tennessee with a loaded passenger train during 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 Southerns 21st Century Steam program, the 4501 returned to service this year.
Tech Info: 1/1250sec, f/7, ISO 250, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 12, 2015 – The conductor on Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern diesel unit 2594, A GP30 built in 1963, unlocks the switch at Chattanooga, Tennessee on it’s dinner train run at the turn around point, where they run the engine around the train, as the glow of sunset illuminates the scene. Tech Info: 1/1000sec, f/5.6, ISO 360, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 240mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 12, 2015 – The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 4501 heads west on the Norfolk Southern Mainline at Pine Hill Road, McDonald, Tennessee during it’s return trip to Chattanooga with a loaded passenger train from Cleveland, 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 Southerns 21st Century Steam program, the 4501 returned to service this year.
Tech Info: 1/1000sec, f/7, ISO 450, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 70mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
September 13, 2015 – Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 4501, a Baldwin 2-8-2 built in 1911, sits in the station at Chattanooga, Tennessee as a Norfolk Southern Geometry Train heads west in the NS mainline, during the TVRM’s 2015 Railfest. Tech Info all photos: 1/1250sec, f/10, ISO 280, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 31mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.